Excerpt from Germination in Its Electrical Aspect: A Consecutive Account of the Electro-Physiological Processes Concerned in Evolution, From the Formation of the Pollen-Grain, to the Completed Structure of the Seedling; Together With Some Further Studies in Electro-Physiology Hen this book, a plainly written account of laborious research, passes into the hands of reviewers I would ask those gentlemen to remember that a great humanitarian question is involved and that While my personal opinion upon matters of detail may seem worthy, of attack, the fundamental truth I have put forward, first in electra-pathology and Therapeutics, second in Studies in electra-physiology and for the third time 'in the present volume is of too great importance to mankind to be passed over, or to be, to all intents and purposes, shelved, by saying there is very little that is new in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.