The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism May 1890

Finally the Committee of the Asiatic Society unanimously declare against the theories of volcanic action and of the action of tides upon the shoal called the Swash of no-ground.' They think the most plausible opinion thus far advanced is that the sounds may be connected with the river banks and that their frequent occurence during two or three days immediately preceding the arrival of distur [...] If the soi of the Gangetic Delta between Barisal and the Bay of Bengal were hard dry and of an uniform character and rested upon a continuous stratum of rock then we might more readily accept the theory that the ' guns' under dicussion were explicable upon the theory of an echoing or rather conduction of the crash of surf-rollers upon the shore of the Bay. [...] For was it not hitherto believed that all the phenomena of assimilation and sucking in of food by the intestinal canal could be explained by the laws of diffusion and endosmosis ? And now alas physiologists have come to learn that the action of the intestinal canal during the act of resorting is not identical with the action of the non-living membrane in the dialyser. [...] The mysterious faculties of selection of extracting from the blood one kind of substance and rejecting another of transforming the former by means of decoposition and synthesis of directing some of the products into passages which will throw them out of the body and redirecting others into the lymphatic and blood vessels—such is the work of the cells. [...] But the fact of the sameness of the reproduction of things in the eye according to the same laws of refraction as on the plate of a photographic machine is no vital phenomenon.