. The causes and course of organic evolution; . the question of the formationof colloid polymeric carbohydrates like starch, not to say ofthe greatly more complex amides, glucosides, and proteids. But we have already suggested that—no matter how weview heat, light, chemical affinity, or electricity, as related Energies of the Organic World 73 to or transformable into each other—they seem to have had agraded connection and climax for manifestation of their activ-ity, that corresponds broadly with the gaseous, the liquid,the viscous, and the solid states. These again seem correlated,from the ene
. The causes and course of organic evolution; . the question of the formationof colloid polymeric carbohydrates like starch, not to say ofthe greatly more complex amides, glucosides, and proteids. But we have already suggested that—no matter how weview heat, light, chemical affinity, or electricity, as related Energies of the Organic World 73 to or transformable into each other—they seem to have had agraded connection and climax for manifestation of their activ-ity, that corresponds broadly with the gaseous, the liquid,the viscous, and the solid states. These again seem correlated,from the energy standpoint, with binary, ternary, and rarelyquaternary molecular aggregations. Thus heat in the rarergaseous state, light in the dense gaseous and liquid state, chem-ical affinity in the liquid and viscous states, electricity in thesolid state, and finally doubled electricity in the colloid state,seem all to suggest graded relationships in condensing kineticor vibratory energy, and its passage toward potential or con-stitutive ± u/trcc energy col^ocd eTiepo-^es yu Fig. 1.—Diagram to illustrate supposed relations of the inorganic and organic energies. The accompanying diagram, the left-hand portion of whichthe writer owes to the kindness of Professor Dahlgren, setsforth the relation of the recognized energies to each other,beginning with the simplest and ultimate exhibition of energy,namely heat, and passing to the most perfect, electricity. Bythe activity of heat, light, chemical affinity, and electricity, 3* 74 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution the varied inorganic compounds are built up which we meetwith in nature, and which may be binary, ternary, or rarelyquaternary in complexity. These, however, in their com-paratively simple composition, are in striking contrast to thegreatly more complex molecules that can be linked togetherin an aqueous matrix as colloid organic molecules; thougha transition connection seems to exist in the rather numerousinorga
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