THE PHYSIOLOGIC UNIT (CLASSIC REPRINT)

1. That ether is the simplest form of matter, that it is molecular, and that it has a chemistry. (Fig. 1, A.)2. That electricity is the chemistry of ether, i.e., that dissociation and association of ether atoms or units constitute electricity in the broadest sense of the term. (Fig. 1, B.)3. That electric potential and chemic potential are fundamentally identical being based on the potential of free ether-units or atoms, differentiating, in as much as in the former the ether-units are completely free, and in the latter they are constituents of and are partially neutralized within the chemic atom. (Fig. 1, B, C.)4. It follows that there is an analogy between electric manifestations and molecular conditions, and that a study of the one will enable us to define the other. (Fig. 1, D, E.) Consequently the following definition of a molecule must be accepted