,the ,universe a ,vast ,electric ,organism ,,by ,,george ,,woodward ,,warder ,,author ,,of ,invisible ,light1 or the ,electric ,theory of ,creation1 ,the ,cities of the ,sun1 ,etc41 ,etc4 ,illustration ,the universe is a vast electric machine or organism creating its own cosmic force1 lighting and heating itself from its own latent electric fires1 and bound together by invisible electric bands pulling and guiding with the swiftness of lightning1 and the power and wisdom of ,omnipotence4--,from ,,the ,,cities ,,of ,,the ,,sun4 ,g4 ,w4 ,,dillingham ,,company ,publishers ,new ,york ,,copyright1 #aijc ,,by ,,george ,,woodward ,,warder ,issued ,february1 #aijd ,the ,universe a ,vast ,electric ,organism ,,contents ,i4 ,the ,universe ,is a ,vast ,electric ,organism1 #aa ,,ii4 ,electricity ,produces ,all the ,phenomena of ,nature1 #bi ,,iii4 ,electrical ,creation1 ,briefly ,stated4 ,it ,seems to ,solve the ,riddle of the ,universe1 #di ,,iv4 ,electrical ,creation ,more ,fully ,stated ,confirms ,scientific ,evolution1 #ed ,v4 ,man ,is a ,soul ,clad in ,air1 a ,spirit in an ,electric ,organism1 #gf ,,vi4 ,all ,light1 ,heat and ,life ,evolved ,only in the ,atmosphere of ,suns and ,planets1 #ij ,,vii4 ,electrical ,derangement of the ,bodily ,organism ,produce ,sickness and ,death1 #ajb ,,viii4 ,recent ,electric ,discoveries and ,appliances1 ,wireless ,telegraphy1 etc41 #aab ,,ix4 ,present ,science ,is in a ,dubious and ,chaotic ,condition1 #acc ,x4 ,electrical ,creation ,explains ,natural ,philosophy1 #aef ,,xi4 ,science and ,philosophy ,sustain the ,religious ,concept1 #agc ,,xii4 ,human ,reason and the ,universe ,are ,books of ,god1 as ,well as the ,bible1 #aid ,,xiii4 ,love is the ,electric ,law of ,life3 ,all ,that ,live ,must ,come ,from ,loving1 #bac ,,xiv4 ,jacob's ,ladder ,is the ,electric ,pathway ,between ,suns and ,planets1 #bcj ,,xv4 ,this ,electric ,universe is ,self-sustaining and ,eternal1 #bdf ,,xvi4 ,are all ,suns and ,worlds ,inhabited8 #bfe ,,xvii4 ,the ,electrical ,theory of ,creation ,will ,save ,modern ,science from ,pantheism1 #bgi ,,preface ,this volume is intended to further elucidate my theories of electrical creation1 to cover some points lightly touched upon in my previous books2 also to bring forward to date the most recent scientific facts and discoveries tending to show that the universe is a vast electric machine or organism4 ,this is the electrical age of the world1 the age of magnetic marvels and electrical wonders4 ,the people of this generation have witnessed the most astounding development of electrical machinery1 appliances and utilities4 ,in every department of effort human genius has called forth this invisible1 mysterious magician1 electricity1 to work the miracles of ,omnipotence4 ,and so rapid and marvelous have been the discoveries that the human mind stands paralyzed with wonder and amazement and asks1 ,what next8 ,in discovering electricity man has discovered the working force of ,deity1 the right hand of ,omnipotence1 the word of creative power1 and uses it in all fields of human effort4 ,with electric cables1 electric motors1 telephones1 phonographs1 telectroscopes1 wireless telegraphy and mental telepathy1 the world is revolutionized1 the old heavens and the old earth have passed away1 and behold6 all things are new4 ,the new heavens and the new earth as ,i see it through scientific facts and analogies is a perfect electrical machine1 a vast electro-magnetic organism of marvelous power and perfection4 ,this stupendous mass of matter and force we call the universe is a complete whole1 a perfect unity1 creating its own light1 heat and life and bound together by invisible electric ties of measureless power1 as swift as lightning and as strong as ,omnipotence4 ,then ,i took up the study of electricity as a matter of curiosity and mental stimulus for my leisure hours from the law practice and realty investments4 ,i had an indefinite idea that this mysterious force and the laws governing it might help to solve the riddle of the universe4 ,i studied its application to ordinary machinery and then applied it to the universe as a vast machine4 ,and behold6 the universe as a mighty electric machine or organism answered every scientific question and solved every puzzle in the material world as far as ,i could comprehend them4 ,i applied it to suns and planets1 man and all animal and vegetable organisms1 and as electric creations and electric generators they explained a thousand mysteries4 ,i found man the most perfect electric organism1 woven by electric energy from invisible atoms1 receiving his physical life1 growth and nutrition1 and digesting and assimilating his food by an electric process1 such as ,prof4 ,loeb and ,dr4 ,matthews discovered in #aijb1 nearly twenty years after4 ,i soon formulated a theory of electrical creation1 which has recently been accepted by some of the ablest scientists4 ,these things ,i discussed openly and on the platform for many years and then ,i published them in my book1 ,the ,new ,cosmogony1 in #ahih1 in ,invisible ,light in #aijj and in ,the ,cities of the ,sun in #aija4 ,my attention was first called to this subject about twenty years ago when ,prof4 ,henry built the first electric street railway ever built in this country4 ,it was built on ,east ,fifth ,street1 in ,kansas ,city1 ,missouri1 the city where ,i was living1 and attracted much attention4 ,it was used for only a short time because the machinery was not sufficiently perfected1 and there was too great a waste of power1 and the insulation was bad1 for it magnetized and stopped the watches in the pockets of the passengers4 ,while pondering over this electric railway and its mysterious force1 as ,i sat in the twilight in the parlor of the old ,coates ,house1 a servant came in to light the gas4 ,instead of using a match1 he turned on the gas1 took a few gliding steps over the carpet and lit the gas by a flash of electricity from his finger1 produced by touching his finger against the tip of the gas jet4 ,i was surprised and said1 ,have you enough fire in your body to light the gas8 ,he answered1 ,yes1 sir4 ,i said1 ,can you do that again8 ,yes1 sir1 and he turned on another jet took a few gliding steps over the carpet1 touched the tip of the jet with his finger2 there was a flash and the gas was lit4 ,i was amazed1 for this was a new electric manifestation to me4 ,he said1 ,you can do it1 sir4 ,well1 ,i'll see if ,i can1 and ,i took a few gliding steps over the carpet4 ,he turned on the gas1 ,i touched the jet with the tip of my finger and a flash of electric fire1 an inch long1 lit the gas4 ,this ,i did many times afterwards and saw a dozen others do the same thing4 ,in fact the servants seldom used matches in that parlor1 the carpet held such a surplus of electricity most any person could by a few gliding steps increase the electricity of their body so they could light the gas by a touch4 ,then ,i began to think--electric fire in man's body1 in the clouds1 in coal and wood1 on the telegraph line1 in flint1 in cold steel--in everything4 ,electricity must be light1 heat1 life and creative force1 and will explain the mysteries of nature4 ,in the hot1 dry summer of #aija1 when ,the ,cities of the ,sun#a was issued1 my publisher called me to one side and said that his salesman was going out ,west4 ,he asked1 ,if he offers to sell your book1 which says the sun is not hot1 to those old ,kansas farmers1 won't they mob him and hang him to the first available tree8 ,i admitted it did look serious on account of the extreme heat then afflicting the ,west1 but told him to have his salesman inform them that if they would go up in a balloon a few thousand feet nearer the sun they would freeze to death1 and that if they had an arm that would reach four thousand feet up into the atmosphere it would freeze to the elbow in less than thirty minutes1 the hottest day ever known1 as every two thousand feet upwards from the earth there is a loss of over one hundred degrees of heat4 ,i mention this to show how some of these theories may shock the sensibilities of some unscientific thinkers4 ,all scientists declare that the sun is a burning globe and also the material and electric center of the solar system2 but ,i conceived it to be a living world like our earth1 only more prolific in life and power1 and the intellectual and spiritual center of our system of worlds4 ,i believe ,i present the only reasonable scientific hypothesis ever presented in the history of the human race which shows and explains the unity1 oneness and perfect organism of the universe4 ,it shows that the universe is self-sustaining1 harmonious and eternal1 creating its own cosmic light1 heat and life in the magnetic atmosphere of its suns and planets1 and so simple that the law of atoms is the law of suns and worlds4 ,with the able assistance of the many scientists1 electricians and specialists who have recently accepted and championed these theories1 and the progress already made1 they bid fair to soon revolutionize scientific thought4 ,the time will come1 and is not far distant1 when those who believe the sun is hot1 or a burning globe of fire1 will be regarded as the devotees of an antiquated superstition4 ,the enlightened world will look upon them as they do now on those who believe in witches1 human slavery and that the earth is flat2 and will pity their ignorance1 as we do those who worshipped the gods of ,olympus4 ,,footnote3 #a ,published by ,g4 ,w4 ,dillingham ,company1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,chapter ,i ,,the ,,universe ,,is ,a ,,vast ,,electric ,,organism ,electricity1 next to ,deity1 is the most remarkable entity in the universe4 ,its marvelous and varied powers and utilities create a new epoch in scientific thought and discovery4 ,its study is replete with new and fascinating ideas and scientific theories4 ,it contains the story of the universe more sublime than an epic1 more wonderful than a romance4 ,it organized the machinery of the worlds1 and holds the secrets of nature and the mysteries of life in its invisible grasp4 ,electricity is the right hand of ,deity1 the tongue of the ,spirit1 the ,word of ,omnipotent power1 the protean cosmic force and creative machinery of the universe4 ,at the divine fiat it seized all atoms and space1 it shook the ether into nebula1 the nebula into worlds1 the worlds into constellations1 the constellations into a universe4 ,it shaped planets and rounded suns and hurled them forth to circle in the chorus of the singing spheres4 ,it gave form and functions to all matter from the rounded pebble to the stars2 from the raindrop to the surging seas2 from the chirping cricket to the sporting leviathan2 from the helpless infant to the giant man4 ,it is the messenger and executive of ,creative ,will to all created things4 ,it is the ambassador of spirit to matter1 the autocrat of communication between all the faculties of mind and all the functions of physical existence4 ,it is the law of affinity in matter1 of selection in atoms1 and whispers to the body the intuitions of the ,spirit and guides insensate worlds to do the will of ,creative ,omnipotence4 ,electricity is the wonderful medium and agent by which mind acts upon matter and works the miracle of life and growth4 ,this mightiest servant of ,god and man1 this genii greater than ,aladdin's lamp1 impresses all laws upon nature1 and makes the universe obedient to the will of ,deity1 as man's body is obedient to the dictates of man's mind4 ,this inscrutable word of power from the source of all power is beginning to supply the human race with an inexhaustible force that will revolutionize the earth and link all nations together as one family in a millennium of peace and good will4 ,human life seems to throb1 pulsate1 gleam and glow in this marvelous current of existence1 which causes illumination1 transportation1 telegraphy1 photography1 surgery1 horticulture1 agriculture1 metallurgy and manufacture to step forth as master magicians to work miracles for the comfort and happiness of mankind4 ,every new discovery1 every step in the progress of electrical science conquers time1 destroys distances1 diffuses knowledge1 dissipates ignorance1 encourages friendship and draws men and nations closer and closer by physical ties and spiritual affinities4 ,where once noisy ponderous mechanism pounded the rocks to release the metals1 electrical science with her unseen but resistless currents instantly separate the ore and the dross4 ,where the soot-begrimed engineer seizes the heavy iron throttle1 she cleanly and softly touches a tiny button and the miracle is wrought--the heavy steed of steel receives its life not from smoking1 hissing1 fussing steam1 but from an energy as silent as light and as potent as ,omnipotence4 ,this invisible electrical energy1 without brush or color1 paints the gorgeous beauties of the rainbow1 and photographs in every ray of light and on every human eye the moving panorama of every passing scene4 ,it telegraphs between mind and matter1 between soul and body1 between suns and planets1 and gives life and energy to all the varied functions of this electric magnetic universe4 ,this strange1 miraculous power has taken its place as the supreme force of all forces1 the ultimate elemental force from which all other physical forces are derived1 and1 without fuel or expense1 flies with its burdens swifter than the flight of eagles4 ,it is the last and greatest progeny of man genius and discovery1 the seventh daughter of science1 who dips her wand in the impossible and miraculous until miracles become prolific and common4 ,its power and expression are universal and its character and process superlatively grand4 ,its theatre of action is the universe and it comes to earth as the voice of ,deity and the word of ,his ,omnipotence4 ,this science of the impossible1 this daughter of miracles1 is destined to outstrip all past achievements4 ,the ponderous and noisy mechanisms will pass away1 the barren rocks will change into most precious things1 the sunlight will be converted into reservoirs of power1 and every raindrop and waterfall1 ocean tide and wind current1 will reveal exhaustless sources of wealth and energy4 ,then will the ancient curse1 by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread1 be removed1 and agriculture and commerce will be conducted without the drudgery of toil or the weariness of labor1 and the earth shall blossom at the touch of the silent electric forces which man will harness to his car of progress and power4 ,manufacture will then be automatic and the web she will weave in her silent loom will not be wet with the tears of imprisoned childhood1 or the agonizing sweat of dungeoned manhood4 ,omnipotence follows her footsteps and with the blessings of heaven she comes as a friend to relieve pain and toil and elevate and glorify humanity4 ,her power is as boundless as space and as universal as heaven's love4 ,for she comes with the ,omnipotent power of ,deity to relieve the burdens of toil1 lift up the oppressed of the earth1 and give man leisure for mental improvement and social elevation4 ,electricity1 ,i contend1 is the invisible force which evolves form and substance and all visible things4 ,matter is but the outer garment of these invisible electric forces4 ,it is ,spirit which creates psychic life1 and makes life the cause instead of the consequence of organism4 ,it is electricity which evolved the physical universe and makes it a vast electric organism bound together by invisible electric ties1 where its invisible forces are the cause instead of the consequence of physical organism4 ,these are the basic differences between the materialistic science of the past and the psycho-electric science of the present4 ,in the past science investigated only visible material effects and ignored the supreme invisible forces and laws which evolved and produced them4 ,this is an age of dominant mind1 the development of a cycle of invisible forces4 ,the past century was the age of matter4 ,it is said ,darwin1 ,tyndall1 ,haeckel and ,huxley did a work which had to be done4 ,but their work was limited to chemical and biological demonstration4 ,it was science1 but science of the old school4 ,the discoveries since made in the domain of electricity and mental transmission make their discoveries seem trivial in comparison4 ,francis ,grierson says3 ,the discoveries and inventions of the past ten years have made child's play of every previously known system of philosophy4 ,the simple but amazing facts disclosed during the past five years render the dreams1 speculations and guesswork of the past absurd4 ,the little we know in a practical way is more than all the philosophers of the past knew1 from ,aristotle to ,leibnitz4 ,i contend that the universe is a vast electric organism4 ,that all light1 heat1 and vital force is generated by electric energy in the dense magnetic atmosphere of suns and planets1 where alone it is needed for animal and vegetable life1 and in volcanic pockets or circuits in the outer crust of these bodies caused by electric repulsion4 ,that the universe began in extreme cold1 not heat1 that the suns are not hot1 but are self-luminous1 perfected worlds1 and like our earth1 except greater and more prolific in life and power4 ,i also contend it is as reasonable to bury an iron ship in the icebergs of the ,arctic seas and expect it to become red hot1 as to expect the sun1 planets or any body traveling through space #dfj degrees colder than those icebergs to become hot1 red hot or molten1 as the astronomers say the sun is4 ,all light1 heat1 vital force and physical life is created by contact of opposite electrical polarities in the magnetic cushion surrounding all suns and planets4 ,the sun furnishes the positive electricity and the planet or satellite the negative1 and from these two spring all the cosmic and material forces of the universe4 ,the electric currents of the sun create induced magnetic currents on the earth1 which evolves all visible substance and life forms4 ,the earth at its center is a magnet of crystalline rock and varied metals1 placed layer upon layer as a thermopile or voltaic battery1 which constitutes the solid core of the earth magnet1 and draws and holds all matter and substance atoms and atmosphere close to its magnetic heart1 so that nothing can be thrown off of its vast surface1 though it shoots through space fifty times faster than a bullet from a rifle and whirls round with the speed of a revolving cylinder of a dynamo4 ,its swift duplicate motion makes it a working battery or arc dynamo of marvelous power4 ,it draws all things to its magnetic center as the magnetic core of a steel magnet draws filings of iron and other metals to its magnetic surface1 and they cluster there in the same spherical form4 ,this earth magnet drew countless meteors1 swarms of nebul and invisible matter from surrounding space1 and grew in size and magnetic power as a steel magnet may grow by adding other countless magnets with their increasing power and growing accretions4 ,for my theory is that every atom is a tiny magnet1 and every molecule1 meteor and visible form of matter is a combination and aggregation of magnets4 ,aside from the theory of magnets1 this is not far from ,lockyer and ,proctor's theory of the stellar formation4 ,norman ,lockyer says3 ,the stellar constitution may be explained by supposing it to arise from cool meteoric swarms represented by the nebul and the rise of temperature due to contraction toward a centre4 ,and he adds3 ,in the stars we have celestial furnaces the heat of which transcends that of our most powerful electric sparks4 ,in this heat theory ,i think he is radically wrong4 ,the rise of temperature on the sun and earth1 ,i contend1 is not from contraction1 which is both insufficient and too irregular to be considered4 ,but it did arise from the growth in power and size of the earth as a great magnet1 so that as a great arc dynamo it began to throb with electric energy1 and1 by drawing to itself powerful currents from space and from the sun1 the central electric heart of its organism1 it began to generate heat and light in its own environment1 which in time became translucent to the sun's rays1 and1 instead of the sun and earth losing their light and heating power1 they are steadily increasing them4 ,it is thus apparent that all light1 heat1 physical organisms and vegetable and animal life are evolved and exist only in the magnetic atmosphere of suns and planets4 ,the light we see does not come from the sun or stars2 it is generated in our own atmosphere4 ,no man ever saw the sun or stars2 they see the rays of light which photograph them in our atmosphere4 ,they see pictures of them at the end of the ray emanating from them1 but some of these rays have been two hundred years in reaching us4 ,it takes light over four years to reach us from the star nearest our earth1 so it is plain we do not see these stars4 ,as to the heat of the sun1 there has been a vast difference of opinion among scientists4 ,newton held it to be #a1ffi1cjj degrees hot2 ,erickson1 #b1gbf1jjj degrees hot2 ,sacchi1 #b1jjj1jjj to #f1jjj1jjj degrees2 ,waterson1 #i1jjj1jjj to #aj1jjj1jjj1 and ,soret1 #e1hjj1jjj degrees hot4 ,but since the discovery of the law of the conservation of energy1 which is only about a hundred years old1 the scientists have been hedging and crawfishing with wonderful dexterity and reducing it1 until now #ah1jjj to #bj1jjj degrees are accepted as possibly correct4 ,as ,newton was a great mathematician and the scientists accept him on other scientific questions1 they ought to accept him on the sun's heat1 and acknowledge a fact that ought to be apparent to all--that if heat comes to the earth from the sun1 in a column #ic1jjj1jjj miles long and #h1jjj miles in diameter through frigid ether #dfj degrees colder than ice1 the sun must be millions of degrees hot4 ,then1 as nothing in the known universe can exist a million or even twenty thousand degrees hot1 they should admit the sun is not hot1 and no heat comes from the sun to the earth4 ,only electric currents come from the sun1 which generate heat and light in our own atmosphere4 ,then arises another question4 ,all bodies lose their magnetic power when heated to less than one thousand degrees hot4 ,professor ,fleming in his book1 ,magnets and ,electric ,currents says3 ,magnetic bodies become changed into feeble magnetic ones by heating to a certain temperature4 ,iron at its critical temperature1 #fij degrees to #hgj degrees or a light red heat1 loses all its strong magnetic qualities4 ,in the same way nickel loses them at #cjj degrees4 ,thus we have the sun at even #a1jjj degrees hot deprived of its magnetic power and unable to control the solar system4 ,prof4 ,t4 ,c4 ,mendenhal1 in a recent article in ,harper's ,magazine1 says3 ,the electrical resistance of pure metals diminishes at a rate which indicates that at absolute zero it would vanish and these metals would become perfect conductors of electricity4 ,thus cold increases and heat diminishes the electric energy of metals and all substances4 ,in my previous book1 ,the ,cities of the ,sun1 ,i have given over fifty reasons why the sun is not hot4 ,among them ,i may mention1 first1 because of the extreme cold that prevails in the upper atmosphere of the earth1 through which the sun's rays must pass1 but whose temperature they cannot alter4 ,second1 because the sun's rays must traverse #ic1jjj1jjj miles of space between sun and earth1 which is #dfj degrees colder than ice1 which would make it impossible for them to retain any degree of heat whatever4 ,if heat comes from the sun it must come in a column #ic1jjj1jjj miles long1 #hfe1jjj miles in diameter1 converging to #h1jjj miles at the earth's surface1 which would destroy the sun or any known body in the universe to furnish such heat4 ,third1 because the perpetual snow upon the mountains even in the tropics show the sun's rays bring no heat to the earth1 or the snow would be melted by the first and greatest volume of heat from the sun4 ,fourth1 because if heat came from the sun there could be no clouds in our atmosphere1 for the heat of the sun would strike them first1 and greater heat above the cloud level would prevent their formation and forever banish them from our skies4 ,fifth1 because heat by the law of its nature is diffusive1 and cannot be shot from one sun or planet to another1 or forced through space like a leaden ball or other substance1 but is soon dissipated in the cold ether of space4 ,sixth1 the sun is not hot because comets have passed three hundred thousand miles through the sun's corona without visible change or injury1 which would be impossible if the sun is excessively hot1 for the comet1 coming from outer space1 must be intensely cold1 and excessive heat in the sun would explode and destroy it4 ,this argument alone should destroy the hoary headed superstition that the sun is hot4 ,seventh1 heat does not come from the sun1 because there is no such thing as heat4 ,heat is simply a sensation2 it is not a substance or an entity4 ,it is a sensation caused by the increased activity of the molecules of which a body is composed1 and1 is produced by electric currents4 ,i hold the sun is not a thermal or heating engine1 as the astronomers claim1 but an electric generator which is not hot and does not need to be hot4 ,i repudiate the law of gravity and adopt electricity as the evolving force of the universe4 ,as the sun is #gde times larger than all the planets of the solar system combined1 and controls the life and energy of the solar system by all laws of analogy and distribution in the universe1 it should be more highly endowed with all the elements of growth1 living forms and intellectual organisms than all the planets combined4 ,therefore1 the sun should be the spiritual and intellectual center as well as the physical and electric center of our system of worlds1 the headquarters of ,deity and the future abode of man4 ,no life could come from a hot or burning sun or world1 yet all animal and vegetable life comes from the all life-giving energy of the sun4 ,heat is not life-giving1 it is not even a substance or a force4 ,heat does not exist except as a sensation created by the increased activity of the molecules of which the body is composed4 ,this increased activity is caused by currents or waves of electricity passing through a body or substance4 ,cold is the absence of heat or lack of motion of the molecules of a body or substance1 and1 like heat1 is not a reality1 a substance or a thing1 but only a sensation4 ,heat and cold are produced by electricity1 and are sensations resulting from electrical conditions4 ,heat is not a creator2 electricity is the creator and heat is its servant1 and only one of its thousand-fold expressions4 ,electricity creates the activity of the molecules which gives the sensation of heat4 ,a person standing in the sun on a hot day receives currents of electricity which were not hot when they left the sun1 but only became so when they came in contact with the earth's opposite electricity near the earth's surface4 ,these currents produce the sensation of heat4 ,the sun is not a burning globe1 or blazing world of fire2 it is an enormous magnet of measureless power1 thirteen hundred thousand times larger than the earth magnet on which we live4 ,it revolves on its enormous axis at the rate of four thousand miles an hour and is thus constituted a working magnet or arc dynamo1 drawing electric energy from its vast electric field1 embracing the solar system1 six billions of miles in diameter4 ,of this electricity1 it uses for its own light1 heat1 and vital force what it needs1 and the balance is thrown off to its luminous corona or photosphere1 where it is shot by the law of electric repulsion in the sun and electric attraction in the planets to the earth and plants4 ,the brilliancy of the sun is caused by its surplus electricity creating a luminous aurora which extends from its poles to its equator4 ,newton discovered an imaginary force4 ,newton had an imagination which the scientific plodders who came after him lacked4 ,they have dug in the dirt1 while he sailed through azure seas and linked suns and worlds together by the mere sweep of the imagination1 without any explanation or conceivable cause1 and called it gravity4 ,he might just as well have called it weight or ponderosity1 which means the same as gravity4 ,and the scientists followed him and accepted his theory of gravity1 which means nothing and explains nothing4 ,it was the best they could do1 as he had an imagination and an idea and they had none4 ,thus the blind led the blind for two centuries1 until electricity and its invisible forces were discovered1 and a new field for thought and causation was opened up4 ,let us suppose that space and the invisible atoms or star dust which permeate it are seized by electric energy1 creating a boundless sea of invisible electro-magnetism1 which began to vibrate to the law of action and reaction1 attraction and repulsion4 ,under this law every atom became a tiny magnet1 and electric centers are formed which are the foundation stones and nuclei of growing suns and worlds2 and invisible atoms1 nebul and finally meteors are drawn by electric energy and woven by magnetic force or induced electric currents into orderly layers of crystalline rock and varied metals1 forming a vast thermopile1 galvanic battery1 working magnet1 and electric dynamo all combined4 ,by the law of electric attraction all matter would tend toward a common center1 and in that common center would be found the vast central magnet-sun1 sphere and dynamo many times larger and more powerful than all the others combined4 ,as each grew in size their electric potentiality would be increased1 their electric and magnetic attractions multiplied1 and their revolution upon their axis and their orbit motion would be accelerated to a marvelous extent1 giving them measureless force and power4 ,herbert ,spencer affirms that space is eternal and has always existed4 ,we will suppose the same of matter in its elemental form1 known as the atom1 and we will venture also to assert that force is a substance like matter1 but a thousand times more refined and invisible than the atom1 and we will call it the electric ion1 or electron4 ,thus we have three indestructible1 invisible entities--space1 matter and force--which have existed eternally and which constitute the basic foundation and fallow ground of primeval chaos1 which was the beginning of the universe4 ,then stars and planets1 suns and worlds were transparent ether1 as impalpable as the viewless air1 and scattered as star-dust in the measureless void of space along the forgotten highways of the eternities4 ,silence reigned profound in the pulseless regions of the air where1 motionless and dumb1 the atoms hung in dark and lifeless space4 ,there was nothing in all that seemingly chaotic universe2 nothing but cold1 darkness and silence4 ,but these are the home of atoms and ions1 the star dust and cosmic force1 creative ,deity had scattered by the breath of ,his power through the highways of space in the beginning of primeval creation4 ,while these seem as nothing to man1 they are the foundation stones of all creation4 ,this nothingness of space was the fallow ground of the universe and the formless shadow of suns and worlds4 ,it was a universe in solution1 as viewless as ether and as intangible as mind4 ,the electric energy of space was yet unstirred by the divine fiat or shook into vibrating force by the word of creative power4 ,then at the creative behest1 ,let ,there ,be ,light1 the ions of force1 like an electric clothing of light and life1 leaped into power1 permeated all atoms1 and wrapped as in swaddling clothes a new-born universe4 ,then atoms and ions of electric force met in fond and unending embrace1 substance and energy clasped hands1 and matter and persistent force were woven into each other's arms and saturated with electric life-giving energy4 ,the sun magnet1 being larger and more powerful than all the others combined1 would hold the others we call planets in the magnetic field of his sovereign power1 and become the electric heart and commanding force of his system of world magnets4 ,he would draw his electric life and energy from his vast electric magnetic field embracing his solar system1 which with our sun is six billions of miles in diameter4 ,as these bodies grew in size under the law of electric attraction1 which draws all matter toward a common center1 they would become more and more compressed1 dense and stable1 until they attained their natural equilibrium of balanced forces and assumed their permanent form and solidity4 ,then they would assume their normal velocity of revolution on their axis1 and their orbital motion along evenly balanced lines of force1 without friction or change1 for countless ages4 ,all suns and planets revolve on their axis under the law of electro-magnetism by which electric currents of force pass through their centers at their poles1 and magnetic currents of equal force pass one way around them1 creating their diurnal motion4 ,this law is briefly stated by a standard work on electricity3 ,a wire or any conductor having a current of electricity passing through it has lines of magnetic force passing one way around it1 and the number is in direct ratio to the quantity of current passing through the wire4 ,this magnetic effect is strongest close to the wire1 and decreases inversely as the square of the distance4 ,this is a marvelous combination of the dual forces of electricity1 which operates as a wonderful mechanical contrivance to spin the heavenly orbs on their poles1 like a top is spun by a string or band around it or like the cylinder of a dynamo is revolved by its leather bands or a water wheel turned by the swift current of a river4 ,by reason of this law1 all suns and planets revolve on their electric centers at their poles4 ,the great electric currents from the sun eight thousand miles in diameter and ninety-three million miles in length1 like a mighty1 inexhaustible river of force and power1 cause the earth to turn over1 as a water-wheel is turned by the swift current of a river4 ,this vast stream or current of invisible power1 when it starts from the photosphere of the sun1 is #hfe1jjj miles in diameter and is narrowed to a focus of #h1jjj miles at the earth's surface1 thus increasing its force and power a thousand-fold4 ,the largest river on the earth is #ahj miles wide at its mouth and about #c1jjj miles long1 but what an insignificant rivulet it is in contrast with this vast1 invisible1 omnipotent stream of electric life-giving power1 constantly passing to and fro from sun to earth and from earth to sun4 ,think of its marvelous speed6 ,while the swiftest current of a river or the speed of a railroad train is scarcely fifty miles an hour1 this mighty electric tide comes with the speed of light #ahf1jjj miles a second1 or almost #ab1jjj1jjj of miles an hour2 and it turns the earth over at the rate of a thousand miles an hour by its lines of magnetic force1 just as the swift tide of a river turns the water-wheel of a mill4 ,and that the earth may turn more surely and steadily1 it has vast mountain ranges running north and south from its poles1 such as the ,andes and the ,himalayas on opposite sides of its surface1 and other ranges scattered between1 to act as extending flanges and paddles1 like those on a water-wheel1 to enable this vast electric tide to turn it more readily1 and1 like the brushes on an electric dynamo1 to generate and draw electric currents from earth and sky1 and moisture from the clouds1 to bless and fertilize the earth and make it the theatre of man's life and activities4 ,beneath these mountain ranges and in the outer crust of its surface are many cavities or openings we call volcanoes connected by powerful currents of magnetism constantly circulating from the equator to the poles2 and when there is an influx of water or other substance sufficient to generate electric resistance and repulsion1 a fuse burns out in the circuit at that point1 the volcano sparks1 blazes1 explodes with great force1 and shoots its molten lava into the clouds1 or1 like ,mount ,pelee1 blows its head off4 ,another simple illustration of the universe as a vast electric mechanism is the electric street-car system in our cities4 ,the sun represents the great central power house where the electric power is generated4 ,the planets represent the cars1 which revolve on their axis and speed forward by the same force and in almost the same manner as the planets revolve on their poles and continue in their orbital lines of force4 ,the trolley wire and current are the cars' electric line of force and they come and go in their circuit propelled by the electric generator at the central power house1 in very much the same way as the planets revolve and come and go on their orbital circuits around the sun by the moving force and electric power of the sun4 ,the circuit of the electric current on the car line starts from the dynamo at the power house and returns along the rails or through the earth back to the dynamo4 ,in like manner1 the vast electric currents of the sun pass to the earth through the ether without wires and do the lighting1 heating and cosmic life-work1 and return to the sun completing their circuit2 and the earth sends its electric currents to the sun and they return to the earth through the ether in the same manner and complete their circuit4 ,thus there are vast highways and boulevards of electric currents passing from suns to planets and from planets to suns which are pathways to the stars and the great highways of eternity1 on which invisible atoms1 and perhaps invisible human souls1 may pass from earth to suns and central suns4 ,in the future1 man will turn the searchlight of investigation upon electricity as the universal operating cause of all physical phenomena4 ,he will solve the riddle of the universe by its subtle invisible forces4 ,he will cease to regard creation as vast constellations of burning spheres whirling through frigid ether4 ,he will look upon it with wonder and inspiration as a vast self-controlling1 life-evolving1 varied but unchanging unity1 a perfect whole--a vast electric organism of omnipotent power and eternal existence4 ,he will regard electricity as the finger touch of ,deity that makes the world go round1 that marks out the orbits of suns and the pathway of constellations1 and guides them in their mysterious courses to their eternal and inscrutable destiny4 ,,chapter ,,ii ,,electricity ,,produces ,,all ,,the ,,phenomena ,,of ,,nature ,i contend that electricity produces all the phenomena of nature--that it is the ever active agent in evolving visible forms and substances whose results are known as laws4 ,man is the most perfect enfoldment of nature's electric laws1 and the world and the universe are the universal expression of electric life and energy4 ,man and all the visible forms of creation are woven from invisible ether by electric forces1 and1 as man's will and thoughts are the governing force of his electric organism1 so simple and universal are the laws of nature that the will and thoughts of ,deity1 by electric energy1 are the controlling law and force of the universe1 and the ultimate cause producing all causes1 all creations1 and all tangible forms4 ,the natural world is the product of matter1 and force and all matter is one matter represented by the invisible atom1 and all physical force is one force1 being the varied manifestations of electric energy4 ,for the natural world is the spiritual unfoldment made manifest by electric power4 ,therefore all the varied phenomena of nature1 the revolution of the earth on its axis and in its orbit around the sun1 the brilliant light and governing power of the sun1 the circling stars1 the blazing comet1 the shooting meteor1 the gorgeous rainbow1 the luminous aurora1 and the dazzling corona are all expressions of electric power4 ,the lightning in the cloud1 the reverberations of thunder1 the ebb and flow of the tides1 the wind currents in the air1 the swaying of the forest1 the variations of heat and cold1 the falling of snow1 the rain drop and the dew are all electric manifestations4 ,you cannot raise your arm1 lift your foot1 or move your body except by electric energy4 ,you cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell or exercise any of the functions of the body without bringing to your aid the electric force which permeates all forms and substance4 ,electricity creates the mystery of physical life and provides the food and sustenance necessary to its growth and development4 ,electricity works the miracle of digestion and assimilation and converts inert matter into blood and bone1 tissue and muscle1 and organizes man's body into an electric machine1 and runs it as truly and perfectly by electric energy as the electric motor or generator is run by electricity4 ,man draws his electric life currents from the air into the lungs as a great electric reservoir1 there it purifies and energizes the blood and sends it as an electric fluid and circulating magnetic current through every part of the body1 causing the heart valves to pulsate with measureless force and the human machine to throb with intense life and power4 ,the heart throbs and pulse beats of man's body are but the rythmic whir and vibrations of the human electric machine4 ,man makes electrical machines of wood and glass and metal1 but nature makes them of flesh and blood and of all matter and substance4 ,nature1 the all-wise and mysterious necromancer1 makes nothing but electric machines from the infinitesimal atom to the self-luminous perfected dynamos--the suns and stars4 ,all things that exist are electric generators or electric creations of marvelous construction1 power and utility2 and all expressions of form and power1 all visible objects1 and all the varied phenomena of nature are produced by electric-magnetic energy4 ,franklin and ,faraday1 ,harvey1 ,morse and ,edison1 by their discoveries have taught us that as the potter and the clay must come together to form the rudest vessels1 so creative electric force must touch every sensitive atom in organic being2 and keep the wellsprings of life constantly flowing through all life forms4 ,there is no unfolding of bud and blossom1 tree and shrub1 without the coming and going of electric life-giving sunlight and earth light4 ,they pervade all bodies of matter1 whether world spheres or seed germs1 and hold communion with all atomic centers of sensation in all living organisms4 ,atoms seek their electric affinities1 life-forces and life-forms touch each other by the grasp of magnetic attraction and repulsion1 and these give personal sensations and vital forms of being4 ,through the medium of electricity1 material and mental forces meet together upon the plane of human consciousness4 ,this is nature's method of communication between the material and mental within the human brain1 which has been a puzzling and difficult problem of physical science4 ,the language of the senses is a universal language that has its foundation in invisible forces4 ,there is a unity between the light and the eye that indicates their origin in the same lines of force that now give sight to the brain life4 ,in the ear1 there is evidence that the electric vibratory currents of force producing sound had a companionship with the electric life-germ in which the ear had its beginning4 ,so all organs of sense possess unmistakable evidence of having proceeded out of those electric forces that are unseen and imponderable4 ,the knowledge of these is the story of the ,garden of ,eden1 incorporated into the life of every intellectual being4 ,all the evidence of the senses comes from electric telegrams from without or within man's physical organism4 ,seeing and hearing are wireless telegrams from the ether without1 and feeling1 smelling1 tasting1 are wired telegrams running along the nerves of man's body and communicating with the brain--the seat of intelligence--and the reasoning soul4 ,man must have a connecting link between his mind and body and the things about him2 and1 as that connecting link and medium in man is electricity1 so plain and simple are the laws of nature that ,god has no other medium between him and all material creations4 ,electricity therefore is both the creative governing energy of ,deity over the universe1 and the governing energy of man over all material things4 ,god controls the universe as man controls his body--by electricity4 ,man has five senses3 seeing1 hearing1 feeling1 tasting1 smelling4 ,these are all communicated to the soul or spiritual body by electricity4 ,man feels by the electric flashes that come from every part of his body1 that tingle on his nerves1 and beat upon the brain1 and touch the garments of the living soul4 ,he sees through the medium of the electric etheric waves of light that come from the vibrations of the air around him4 ,by these swift electric flashes the infinitesimal rays of electric light enter the retina of the eye and touch the quick vision of the soul4 ,he hears by the atmospheric waves of electricity that beat upon his ear drums4 ,he tastes and smells by the same electric process2 and his five senses are but the inward communication of outer surrounding conditions and substances to his spiritual perception by means of electricity4 ,thus the ,creative ,deity hears and knows1 and by the same forces directs and sustains all things4 ,man as an electric engine is far more efficient than any known engine in which there is a consumption of fuel4 ,in general the amount of work a man does bears a certain proportion to the fuel he puts into his boiler4 ,plants also constitute forms of electric engines to embalm the sun's rays and use the products rejected by men and animals4 ,by the radiant energy of the sun1 plants are able to decompose carbonic acid4 ,they form storage cells in which a current of electricity decomposes the liquid into oxygen and hydrogen and form materials which again give electricity1 motion and heat4 ,the sun enables the plant engine to work4 ,it also enables the man engine and animal engine1 and world engine to work by furnishing them all with the electric energy and working power of the universe1 that they may do their part in the ever living forces of cosmic life4 ,the cells of protoplasm are infinitesimal magnets or electrical machines1 all vegetables are but larger magnets1 all animals still larger1 till we get to worlds and suns1 the greatest of them all4 ,all the radiant garments of creation in their varied colors of light and beauty that now appear to human vision are woven from the same garments of immortality that wrap themselves around the initial centres of magnetic attraction4 ,as the worlds were created by invisible electric forces under the guidance of the ,omnipotent creative spirit1 so the same electric forces are still carrying forward the work of their unfinished structures1 and perfecting the unity and completing the harmony of creation4 ,what we now call gravity is electric attraction and accretion that was commenced at the beginning of nature's work of creation1 and which continues to be the occult force that secures the growth of a blade of grass1 the unfolding of the tiniest seed with its inwrapt life-germ and the development of a world1 and which brings us face to face with the creative force that was the starting point of the beginning and will be the culminating center of all ultimate perfected creation4 ,this electric life energy touches each growing seed center as at the beginning it touched each growing world center and reveals the power and wisdom of creation in every evolving form of life4 ,the same electric radiate lines that give the parental image in the mirror by an instantaneous flash of light1 give also the parental image in the germ-life that evolves a new paternity4 ,while we cannot trace the lines of electrical union that are mingled in this new life1 we are justified in affirming that electric and radiant matter must have bridged the chasm between the old lives and the new1 between parental duality and the dual forces of electricity that produced a new germinal individuality4 ,and the new life cannot be possible without the separate unfolding of two distinct organisms meeting in generative embrace1 imparting a new seed-life4 ,all germ-life has its beginning where positive and negative magnetic currents blend into unity4 ,the germinal life and the food supply of plant and animal fix the boundaries of its being4 ,there can be no evolution of plant life into animal life4 ,it is not scientific or rational2 vegetable1 plant and tree have no independent existence separate from the soil of the earth except as latent in seed form4 ,as all material organisms take on their organic form around electric or magnetic centers drawing their atoms from electrical currents1 so all life-germs take their growth from the magnetic centers of their growing forms4 ,here in the field of electric forces is to be found the generative forces of organic matter--the mysterious births from all parental life4 ,and the constantly revolving circle of periodic changes of growth and decay1 of life and death1 of seed beginning and seed producing--like sunshine and shadow1 light and darkness--are opposite points in the circle of electric force and physical life4 ,the growing and dying life-forms intervene between these two points of rest and renewal1 of attraction and repulsion1 of positive organism and negative diffusion of matter4 ,they are the results of the great electric system of attracting and repelling currents of magnetism that are as fixed in their lines of force and order of work as the rocks at the foundations of the mountains4 ,in fact1 all that is strong and abiding in matter rests upon these currents of energy1 and all of life is dependent upon the constancy and perpetually pulsating flow of the unseen electrical potencies of creation4 ,life is a universal unity1 as light1 heat1 electricity and polarization1 which evolve it1 are unities4 ,the order of ascending life organism is from the simple to the complex2 from the lowest plane of rock formation the series is upward2 from the lowest form of vegetable life it is up to the highest1 and in the animal life upward till the crowning work is reached in the thinking animal we call man1 who is more than a thinking animal4 ,to each ascending form there is an endowment of self-perpetuation by parentage and seed fruitage1 which involve the electro-magnetic condition of germ life4 ,thus by electrical forces plants build within each other and form others by elementary atoms1 with power of self-propagation1 bridging the life-gulf between silent atom and living organism as if they were the material work of some spiritual builder4 ,thus by electrical forces nature builds all human and animal life-forms and organisms4 ,the primary atoms of matter have their home in the electro-magnetic forces and are evolved from them into the material organisms of creation4 ,when the electro-magnetic origin of light1 heat1 physical life and so-called gravitation is fully accepted and their dynamic energy traced to its potential body1 we have reached the strength of primary forces and the unending circle of electrical potencies4 ,this brings us to the border land of creative work1 to the mysterious sea of all life-giving forces1 and the universal basis of all existing creations4 ,here spirit1 matter1 and electricity--the three great basic entities of creation--work together in full accord in evolving and fashioning all material growth and material structures4 ,in natural growth protoplasm gives the material conditions of life without which there could be no food supplies4 ,they contain grouped elements of oxygen1 nitrogen1 hydrogen and carbon out of which living structures are reared4 ,life is dependent upon food supplies of matter1 which supplies must be raised to radiant conditions by electric forces to secure its assimilation into living organic forms4 ,life1 therefore1 like light1 seeks through magnetic action a radiant plane of matter where it can reveal its working presence4 ,upon such a plane all forms of life come to birth from a common parentage--from electric force and radiant matter1 each form endowed with personality1 and powers of reproduction that make them factors of life and growth upon the radiant plane of creative potencies4 ,prof4 ,g4 ,f4 ,wright of ,oberlin says in a recent article3 ,evolution does not solve the mysteries of the universe4 ,it simply pushes them one step further back4 ,the mystery of the acorn is greater than the mystery of the oak1 for it has compressed in it all the 'power and potency' of the oak4 ,it is no explanation of a chick to say it is hatched from an egg4 ,the wonder and the mystery is simply carried back to that infinitesimal point in the egg which conceals within itself the power of producing the feathered biped with all its marvelous instincts and adapted organism4 ,i hold that the infinitesimal point in the egg and the acorn is its electric center of life-force1 or magnetic core1 which1 under the law of organic affinity1 develops by nutrition and respiration1 which are electric processes1 into the chick and the oak4 ,he says3 ,so1 of all the processes of nature1 man's vision sees only the surface4 ,we do not see causes but only effects4 ,we plant a seed1 and all that we see is that under certain conditions it springs up and produces the blade1 then the ear1 and last the full corn in the ear4 ,no one knows how it comes about that two seeds which look alike under the same conditions produce different colored flowers and different qualities of fruit4 ,the beginning of everything is a mystery4 ,if one affirms that things have no beginning he but increases the mystery4 ,the difficulty with all theories of evolution is to get a starting point4 ,the time was when philosophers could speak of the universe as eternal4 ,the geologists fifty years ago could do so1 but the demonstration of the conservation of energy has put an end to any such easy-going speculation4 ,all this is well stated and very true1 except that by treating all things as electro-magnets1 drawing positive and negative atoms or ions from air1 food and water1 we see how by nutrition and accretion animal and vegetable organism may be evolved by the law of magnetic attraction and organic affinity4 ,this is the only rational solution and is in accord with all the processes of nature and with the conservation of energy4 ,elsewhere ,i have endeavored to explain how1 by the constant renewal of matter and electric energy in the sun and in space1 the universe may be eternal and no waste or deterioration occur and1 while always changing1 is virtually changeless4 ,newton in his theory of gravitation discovered one phase of electric energy1 and his law of gravitation is in reality simply the law of electrical attraction4 ,but he never knew the cause of it and never discovered the other and dual phase of electric energy--the law of electrical repulsion1 he never even suspected it4 ,for he held that the balancing force of gravitation of the other planets kept each planet from falling into the sun1 which it otherwise would have done under the law of gravitation1 which says large bodies attract smaller ones4 ,this position was untenable1 as ,i have shown in ,the ,cities of the ,sun4 ,newton thought that an apple was attracted to the earth because the earth was larger1 and that any larger body would attract a smaller one4 ,but ,i hold that size is not what controls attraction2 it is electrical conditions4 ,an amount of substance from the sun would have more attracting power than the same amount from the earth1 because the sun has more electrical power4 ,a lodestone has more attracting power than the same amount of ordinary substance4 ,a pound of iron has no attracting force until it is magnetized2 then it will lift many times its weight4 ,so size1 weight1 or gravity is no test of attracting power4 ,i therefore repudiate the law of gravity and adopt electricity1 with its dual force of action and reaction1 attraction and repulsion1 as the supreme cosmic evolving force of the universe1 creating all light1 heat and life and producing all the varied and wonderful phenomena of nature4 ,i hold that by the law of electric energy the sun is not a thermal or heating engine as the astronomers proclaim1 but is an electric generator and is not hot1 and that the sun's rays1 neither where they originate or where they act are hot1 but they come to the earth as cool currents of electricity1 which generate heat near the earth's surface by coming in contact with an opposite electricity and the resistance and friction of its atmosphere4 ,proof of this is found in the snow-covered peaks of the tropics and the glaciers of the torrid zone4 ,i have waited six years for objections to the electric theory of creation and have found only one recently stated4 ,this first and only objection is that electricity is a derivative force4 ,prof4 ,g4 ,f4 ,wright1 of ,oberlin1 in an article in the ,chicago ,record1 ,dec41 #aijb1 says3 ,many of the speculations concerning the unlimited use of electricity overlook the fact of its derivative origin4 ,electricity is but transformed force4 ,it is not a producer of force but a consumer of force4 ,it merely directs the force to its specific end4 ,the electricity which propels and warms the street cars of ,buffalo1 and furnishes power to its small factories and illuminates its streets is merely force diverted from the ,falls of ,niagara2 in other words1 it is transformed gravitation4 ,true1 but gravitation is simply electric attraction1 and the electricity that propels1 lights and warms the cars is electric attraction diverted from the ,falls and used on the cars4 ,it is not derivative force1 but the original and only force--electric force transferred from the ,falls to the cars4 ,but ,prof4 ,wright himself destroys his own argument when he says3 ,in other cases the electricity is derived from the heat of consuming coal1 while the coal is the product of the sun's rays1 chemically sealed up in the coal deposits of the early geological ages4 ,indeed it is easy to see that all the available force in the world is the product of the sun's rays4 ,in this we fully agree1 for ,i say the heat of the coal and the heat of the sun is electricity4 ,the sun's rays1 which he says is all the available force in the world1 is electricity1 and the sun is the great electric heart of the solar system4 ,thus we differ only in terms4 ,while he whips electricity around the stump1 and says it is a new thing every time he turns a corner1 ,i say it is the same electricity1 without any change1 and proves the oneness of the universe as a vast electric organism4 ,thus our great scientists befog themselves4 ,now that ,langley says there is only one radiant matter1 and light1 heat and chemical changes are all one entity1 perhaps he may change his view4 ,i have tried to convince these crosseyed reasoners that all force is one force and all matter is one matter1 and the scientists are now coming to that conclusion steadily4 ,prof4 ,wright says again3 ,the strength and warmth of all animal bodies is traceable to carbon1 and whenever we move a limb or walk1 the power to do it is obtained by the consumption of carbon4 ,well1 ,i say carbon is one form of stored electricity4 ,he says3 ,the ox feeds upon the grass which is collected or grows through the influence of sunlight1 and ,i say sunlight is electric currents from the great electric dynamo1 the sun4 ,he says3 ,the nebular theory is faulty1 and ,i agree with him4 ,he says3 ,gravitation is an utter mystery that has baffled all scientific explanation1 and ,i agree with him1 and go a step further and affirm that there is no such thing as gravitation and never was4 ,newton discovered one of the dual forces of electricity1 which ,i call universal electric attraction1 and called it gravitation4 ,he says3 ,so far as we can see1 gravitation acts instantaneously1 and ,newton gave up the problem of defining it1 and said he had no explanation except to say ,god so made it4 ,this is true1 but ,newton knew nothing of electricity or his great intellect would likely have discovered the truth and named and explained it as electric attraction4 ,newton discovered an imaginary force1 an idea1 a dream1 an occult force1 as ,leibnitz called it4 ,newton had an imagination which the scientific plodders who have come after him lacked4 ,they have dug in the dirt1 while he sailed through azure seas1 and linked suns and worlds together by a mere sweep of the imagination1 without any explanation or conceivable cause1 and called it gravity4 ,he might just as well have called it ponderosity4 ,phillip ,akinson1 in his work on electricity1 #aijb1 asserts that energy manifests itself either in masses of matter or in small particles1 called molecules1 and thus we have two kinds--mass energy and molecular energy4 ,but have we two kinds of energy8 ,mass energy and molecular energy is the same4 ,mass energy is but the aggregation of molecular energy4 ,large bodies attract small ones because they possess more electric energy4 ,gravity or weight is but another name for aggregate molecular electric attraction of the earth for everything upon its surface4 ,the gravity or weight of a man is the pull or force with which the electric attraction of the earth holds him to its surface4 ,in other words1 the earth is a vast magnet1 and man's body is a smaller magnet1 and as the magnetic core of a steel magnet draws all metals towards its magnetic center1 so does the earth magnet draw all things toward its center4 ,the same author states that1 the earth is a great thermopile generating electric currents by the difference of potential between its heated and cooled parts4 ,in this ,i agree with him1 but he only states one of a thousand ways to generate electric currents4 ,he says further3 ,heat is believed to be a certain mode of molecular motion1 and electricity to be another mode2 but the nature of the motion of each has never been discovered4 ,and ,i think never will1 as long as the false notion prevails that heat and electricity are modes of motion4 ,a mode of motion is nonsense1 for motion is an effect produced by a cause--it is not a cause4 ,and all cause of motion is electricity1 and the mode of operation is the law of electro-magnetism4 ,there is no difference in the law or the mode of operation of electric currents in a volcano1 in a cloud1 in the earth1 in the sun or planets1 in an electric light1 or in a man's body4 ,the same law exists and the same natural results follow when one lights the gas with a flash of electricity from his finger1 as when a meteor blazes1 a comet flares out in space1 or a sun becomes luminous4 ,the same force that man causes to run along a telegraph wire1 or through a telephone circuit1 or which runs a street car line1 or is taken by the brushes from a revolving dynamo1 is the same force and operated under the same law or mode of force as the electric life-giving currents that come from the sun constantly in an omnipotent tide of power4 ,prof4 ,thomson says3 ,the earth is generally found to be negatively electrified1 and is insulated in its atmosphere1 being in fact a conductor touched only by air--a strong insulator4 ,he says further3 ,the quality of non-resistance to electric force of the interplanetary ether being considered1 the earth1 the atmosphere and the surrounding medium may be regarded as constituting respectively1 the inner coating1 the dielectric and the outer coating of a large ,leyden jar charged negatively4 ,prof4 ,s4 ,p4 ,thomson in ,electricity and ,magnetism1 says3 ,gilbert made the discovery that the compass points north and south because the earth is also a great magnet4 ,faraday said3 ',all matter is in a magnetic condition4' ,sir ,oliver ,lodge says3 ',the idea that magnetism is a whirl of electricity is as old as ,ampere4 ,perceiving that a magnet could be initiated by an electric whirl1 he made the hypothesis that an electric whirl existed in every magnet4' ,maxwell announced the proposition that electro-magnetic phenomena and light phenomena have their origin in the same medium and are identical in nature4 ,hertz1 by actually producing1 detecting and controlling electric waves1 caused the discovery of wireless electricity4 ,and it is by the wonderful wireless telegraphy of light that man is put in communication with every considerable body in the universe1 including even the invisible4 ,by it the goings on in ,sirius and ,algol1 ,orion and the ,pleiades are reported across enormous stretches of millions of millions of miles of space4 ,and by the vibratory motion of the invisibly small1 all things are revealed2 the infinitely little has enabled us to conquer the inconceivably big4 ,i hold seeing and hearing are the simplest examples of wireless telegraphy4 ,elihu ,thomson1 the great electrician1 says3 ,hertz proved that all luminous phenomena are in essence electrical4 ,wireless electricity is the outcome of ,hertz's experiments on electric waves1 and electrical conditions and actions are more fundamental than hitherto regarded4 ,william ,ramsey1 the distinguished chemist1 says3 ,it is a primary assumption that atoms of elements or in certain cases groups of atoms are themselves electrified1 and atoms possess positive and negative poles1 and combinations ensue between such oppositely electrified bodies4 ,mr4 ,francis ,grierson1 a prominent scientist of ,london1 in a recent ,london periodical1 says3 ,so far as we know electricity is the soul of visible form4 ,what we call brain waves have an analogy to electric waves4 ,the discoveries and inventions of the last ten years have made child's play of every previously known system of philosophy4 ,the simple but amazing facts disclosed during the past five years1 render the dreams1 speculations and guesswork of the past absurd4 ,the little we know in a practical way is more than all the philosophers of the past knew from ,aristotle to ,leibnitz4 ,prof4 ,langley1 in his address at the #aijb session of the ,american ,association of ,science1 stated that1 up to #ahgb it was almost universally believed that there were three different kinds of energy--actinic1 luminous and thermal--represented in the spectrum2 but he affirmed3 ,there is only one radiant energy which appears to us as actinic1 luminous or thermal1 according to the way we observe it4 ,heat and light are not things in themselves1 but different sensations in our bodies1 or different effects in other bodies4 ,they are merely effects of this mysterious thing we call radiant energy4 ,he thus sustains my position and the electric theory of creation1 which is1 that there is but one universal and ultimate energy which he calls radiant and ,i call electric energy1 and which are the same thing4 ,it is said that an ,italian physicist wrote in #ahdc3 ,light is merely a series of colorific indications1 sensible to the organs of light1 or vice versa2 the radiations of obscure heat are veritable invisible radiations of light4 ,this ,langley1 by his elaborate researches1 more refined and complex than all preceding ones1 proved to be true4 ,since so orthodox a scientist as ,langley has proven there is but one energy1 the other scientists may stumble over it awhile and then accept it1 because he is high authority4 ,sir ,oliver ,lodge1 in the ,electrical ,world1 of ,february #bast1 #aijc1 sustains the electrical theory strongly4 ,he says3 ,all matter is electrical in its nature4 ,the difference between one kind of matter and another lies in the physical and chemical properties of the atoms2 but the difference between the atoms is merely due to the difference of the electric grouping of the atoms4 ,he holds that the ,thompson corpuscles are all electric4 ,thomson's theory is that negative electricity is matter4 ,lodge holds that all matter down to the ultimate corpuscle is electricity or electrical substance4 ,thus ,i am sustained by the highest most recent authority4 ,prof4 ,e4 ,l4 ,larkin1 of the ,california ,university1 said recently3 ,the earth has a permanent charge of negative electricity1 and the atmosphere is positive4 ,the surface potential is therefore very near zero4 ,this permits electro-magnetic waves from the sun to act with unabated energy4 ,prof4 ,lucien ,i4 ,blake of the ,kansas ,university said in a recent lecture3 ,all atoms of matter are charged with electricity4 ,all vital actions are always connected with electricity4 ,i could fill a volume with recent statements of scientists showing that electricity produces all the phenomena of nature1 all of which they have learned in the last few years1 while as a pioneer in this field of thought ,i have been trying to propagate these electrical theories for many years4 ,every year new facts are discovered showing that electricity is the cosmic1 evolving1 ultimate and only force in nature and the universe is a vast electric machine or organism moved by electric currents of measureless force and power4 ,the earth revolves around the sun1 the sun gravitates around some siderial center in motion like itself1 and myriads of suns and planets with their countless population move with many times the velocity of a cannon ball4 ,stars that seem tranquil and motionless in the heavens are projected through space with a velocity of one hundred to two hundred miles per second4 ,the constituent atoms of our bodies move relatively with as much velocity as the stars in heaven4 ,motion--electric energy--reigns everywhere1 forms everything1 controls1 handles and evolves all suns and planets1 all physical life1 substance and organisms in human experience and universal nature4 ,the electric rays of light from suns and stars of the most distant constellations dart their beams across the universe1 and centuries after1 the impulse of electric energy enters the human eye1 and gives sense and vision to the soul4 ,thus the dynamic chains of electric light binds into living unity the realms of matter and mind1 through measureless amplitudes of space and time4 ,these electric currents are not only the source of all natural phenomena1 but the sea of electro-magnetism from which they come is the reservoir of life1 which stands back of all the myriad manifestations of physical existence1 and is the great fountain of vitality from which all life must come4 ,what is electricity8 ,tesla says it is invisible light1 ,atkins says it is molecular motion1 ,fleming says it is a spiral twist of the ether1 but the best definition is given in the ,scriptures where it says all things were made by the word of ,his power4 ,it is the word of creative power4 ,,chapter ,,iii ,,electrical ,,creation1 ,,briefly ,,stated4 ,,it ,,seems ,,to ,,solve ,,the ,,riddle ,,of ,,the ,,universe ,as the nebular hypothesis and gravitation explain nothing and show neither the primary elements nor the primary energy of the universe1 we should go to the dual forces of electricity which do4 ,as we have learned little more than a name from either1 ,i think it is time to try another hypothesis4 ,walking single file in dead men's shoes for two hundred years is quite long enough4 ,i am willing to submit the following hypothesis as my conception of electrical creation and the true theory of the universe4 ,first--,creation was wrought out by the agency of electrical forces1 operating on invisible elementary matter1 controlled by the intellectual impulse of an infinite power4 ,second--,these creative cosmic forces1 by condensing the suns and planets into vast magnets revolving in a sea of electro-magnetic forces1 evolved the marvelous machinery of the universe4 ,third--,this machinery of the universe became self-propelling and self-sustaining by reason of the laws of motion1 growth and evolution impressed upon it1 or by the joint sovereignty of two equal1 correlative forces3 magnetism1 a form of electricity maintains the sovereignty of attraction over matter in body1 while electricity1 another phase of the same force1 maintains the sovereignty of repulsion over matter in space4 ,fourth--,for these reasons electricity is a universal power joining together the two kingdoms of the heavens and the earth--of matter in body and matter in space4 ,and these forces in their unity of harmonious work can suffer no disturbance equal to the dust in the balance4 ,fifth--,these floods of electricity and magnetism affect the least and the greatest1 directly as to mass1 and inversely to the square of the distance4 ,sixth--,the sun and planets are vast magnets because they are held in charge of electro-magnetic forces in an immense magnetic field4 ,these forces are not from these bodies originally1 but these bodies are from these forces2 and these forces antedate all forms of visible matter4 ,seventh--,the primary state of matter is the diffused etheric1 invisible state1 and the building of matter into body is the work of these forces when in charge of matter under organic affinities4 ,magnetic lines of force fix centres and build around such centres by drawing elemental matter from the radiant sea of space by magnetic energy1 into globular forms that become growing worlds1 drawing their power and increase of form from the sea of invisible matter in which they are fixed by their axis and orbit lines of motion and force1 constituting them working electro-magnets4 ,eighth--,these electro-magnetic forces are the eternal cosmic forces of perpetual motion1 ever working by the law of action and reaction1 attraction and repulsion1 and evolving world forms and animal and vegetable forms4 ,ninth--,the sun having grown from the sea of invisible etheric and nebulous matter by reason of these wonderful electro-magnetic forces into an immense magnet1 larger than all the lesser magnets or planets of the solar system combined1 holds them in the magnetic field of his sovereign power1 and is1 through the flowing currents of electricity1 the creating1 governing force in the solar system4 ,tenth--,these same electric forces are condensed into smaller magnets and electric organisms or machines1 which form electric centres and build up all tangible forms of matter--human1 animal and vegetable4 ,and all visible matter is but the outer shell and visible garment of these invisible forces4 ,eleventh--,without the floods of electric substance or power that come to us in the electric currents of the sun that flow in currents of strength through our bodies as they propel the inflowing and outflowing floods of atomic elements of matter1 that are laden with incoming supplies of daily life and outgoing wastes1 by attraction and repulsion1 assimilation of food1 respiration and perspiration1 our bodily forms would perish or be wholly unfit for the dwelling-place of our spirits4 ,twelfth--,our five senses--seeing1 hearing1 tasting1 smelling1 feeling--that connect us with the world of matter are entirely dependent on electricity and the invisible etheric forms of matter that surround us everywhere and constitute the connecting ties1 the invisible ligaments1 that pervade and bind all forms of life in nature's wondrous harmony4 ,thirteenth--,the boundless fountain of infinite energy in atoms in body and atoms through measureless space are superior to any mere sun form or world form of visible expression of such energy4 ,the floods of radiant electric energy that enwrap the sun and planets in orbital lines of omnipotent strength are to these bodies the everlasting fountains from which flow their upholding and evolving power and the conservation of force in their transforming energy4 ,fourteenth--,as all visible forms of matter are built from invisible elementary atoms1 so the most efficient display of electric power finds its expression and source in the same elementary atoms4 ,the electric power working in all atoms of matter gathered in planetary form1 saturates such planetary bodies with electric energy1 as the steel of the magnet is saturated with such forces1 and reveals in the sun currents the source of all terrestrial power and organic life4 ,fifteenth--,the chemists claim to have discovered about seventy different elemental substances in matter1 but they are not primary elementary substances2 they are secondary1 and caused by the marvelous electrical combinations of the two primary elements--atoms and electricity--and are what ,herschel said they looked to be1 manufactured articles4 ,sixteenth--,the laws of magnetic attraction teach us that positive and negative polar forces1 flowing oppositely between sun and earth1 establish the bond of union between them1 and the transmission of electric energy must be equal between them1 and the flow through space at the low level of latent energy4 ,these two oppositely flowing floods of electric energy1 under the great law of electro-magnetic attraction1 pass through ninety-three million miles of radiant matter in eight minutes of time and enter the resisting atmosphere of sun and earth1 their currents thrilling with energy at the high tension of opposite polarities beneath their atmospheric envelope4 ,thus the attraction known as gravitation1 but which is electro-magnetism1 pours a constant flood of light and heat upon both sun and planets1 and thus the electric light and heat of the sun and planets evolved from their resisting atmosphere1 and the contact of their positive and negative electricity1 become creative potencies1 deriving their vast power from each other1 and from their environing space of virgin1 imponderable matter1 and thereby give life1 motion and utility to all visible created things4 ,thus we find that light1 heat and vital force is created by the contact of the positive and negative electricity in the magnetic atmosphere of suns and worlds4 ,that the electric affinities in matter proclaim an electric origin1 and the invisible atom as the material basis of all material life2 and by tracing their source to electrical and magnetic energy1 we have reached the foundation upon which is built the eternal structures of the universe1 and the bounds of all creation4 ,,chapter ,,iv ,,electrical ,,creation ,,more ,,fully ,,stated ,,confirms ,,scientific ,,evolution ,i contend that electrical creation confirms scientific evolution4 ,in the beginning the elements assumed form when they came into such a state of electrical balance as enabled them to move in uniform order4 ,the more perfect the order the more perfect the form4 ,the crystal is fine proof of this1 for when the elements composing it are all marshaled into perfect uniformity of action the crystal becomes a perfect structure well nigh indestructible4 ,this principle of the crystalline formation of the elements is the basis of world building4 ,in a small volume entitled ,planetary ,evolution1 the learned author1 who is too modest to give his name1 says3 ,atoms are absolute potentialities1 creative rather than created conditions of the elements1 and have the power of inherent energy or life motion4 ,all tests show the atom remains the inscrutable source of creative power1 and the basis of all chemical activity1 and must be the basic principle of world building1 life motion and life energy4 ,in all the operations of chemical transmutations no material is lost and no power wasted1 and1 by the law of the conservation and correlation of force1 both energy and material must exist as correlatives4 ,this places the nature of matter upon the same basis as the origin of power4 ,the transformation of force into material is impossible4 ,force follows the laws of motion1 and atoms the law of form obedient to the lines of motion4 ,this is well stated4 ,this author says further3 ,the atom has the power to assume form and create form1 and matter and force cannot be transformed into each other4 ,then this power or force must come from electricity1 the primary force in nature2 and it has power to assume form and create form by reason of electric energy controlled by spirit intelligence4 ,in planetary construction the first thing that meets our vision is the arrangement of the atoms in crystalline formation1 which is the foundation of all planetary structure4 ,the atoms in space continually change their relative positions and construct world forms and organic forms of beauty and power4 ,they settle into globular spheres with all the precision of a trained army or a disciplined mass of life and energy1 forming the crystalline masses that compose the primitive foundations of the earth4 ,polarity has much to do with the phenomena of crystallization4 ,the same author says3 ,polarity is the result of the transverse lines in which the atoms move previous to their comparative arrest4 ,the planet as a globe can have only two poles1 but the crystal has as many as the lines of direction in which the moving atoms cross each other's path4 ,in interstellar space he affirms the atomic relations of the elements are undisturbed by any power that would tend to divert the atom from its movement in a straight line2 force is transmitted from atom to atom without any effect upon its motion or change of equilibrium4 ,the power of transfer is the basic principle of the electric current1 and as long as the direction of the current lies in one of the lines of atomic motion the current passes without resistance and is imperceptible2 but if it chances to meet in its pathway a line of force passing from atom to atom in a different direction1 there is instantly a neutralization of motion and the arrest of each atom at the point of crossing which gives polarity1 and the molecule is the result4 ,in space the electric current is the first form of creative manifestations the atoms assume4 ,electricity belongs to the atomic forces1 has intimate relations with organic life1 and gives us a key to unlock its mysteries4 ,electric energy plays such an important part in cosmic construction that without some knowledge of its nature it is impossible to explain the processes which are the basis of world building4 ,the crystal rock under microscopic examination shows the same beautiful figures and marvelous lines of arrangement that in winter the new fallen snow-flakes exhibit1 and indicate that the lines of form are essentially the same that gave the planetary rock its forms of crystalline beauty and massive structure4 ,and the beautiful snow that falls so gently upon the wintry lap of earth is one of the best representatives of creative power acting in the primitive states of formative forces4 ,this tends to show that the earth began its formative period in extreme cold and not heat1 for the formative lines of shape and force are the same in the crystal ice and crystalline snowflake as they are in the crystalline rocks of earth's primary foundations4 ,and they all indicate the lines of electric energy and magnetic force in atomic activity and molecular formations1 which are the beginning of all visible material creations4 ,the shaping of the molecules of the so-called cosmic elements by electric energy into crystalline form is the second great step in world building4 ,while magnetism 7the dual force of electricity7 serves to hold the form-structure in more or less enduring relations1 for the magnet has the power to radiate atomic force in circles and tends to draw the elements into form and hold them there4 ,the electric force keeps the atoms always moving2 the magnetic force keeps them or would keep them in atomic balance1 or at rest1 but electricity keeps magnetism always on the alert1 and between the action of the two1 or attraction and repulsion1 all visible forms are evolved and dissolved4 ,thus magnetism is the centripetal force1 of planetary construction1 and electricity the centrifugal power of planetary changes1 and upon these two depend all the complex varieties of inorganic and organic forms that exist4 ,and so long as they exist with their powers of atomic motion so long will world building and form building continue1 and must continue through the ons of creative force4 ,the magnetic state of the earth1 with the pulsating currents of electric force in the atomic and radiant form1 plays a sovereign part in the economy of nature and makes the planet itself alive with creative force and evolving power4 ,to demonstrate electrical power in world building and the shifting relations of the elements in the planetary combinations1 watch the electric plating battery at work4 ,there you will see the atoms in the solution flowing towards the negative pole and depositing themselves in minute crystals upon the metallic surface1 if the negative pole is a metal1 and adhering with great pertinacity2 the metallic crystals penetrate the crystalline surface of the substance to be plated in minute arms filling up the infinitesimal space1 and the atoms in this process transfer their atomic motion in line with the electric force1 and become arrested as in the primitive state when they formed the crystalline foundations of primitive earth4 ,it will be found that the power or electric force required to plate one metal is just the same as to disintegrate it1 and the electric force is a great solvent1 while the magnetic force is a concentrating form-moulding world-building power4 ,and these two forces evenly balanced perpetuate the universe4 ,the fluidic condition of matter arises from molecular activity before the atoms have assumed the crystalline state1 and all fluids are easily vaporized to invisible gases4 ,the primitive planet1 in coming from nebula to crystalline form1 had to pass through the fluidic state1 because the electric atomic balance had not yet been acquired sufficient to produce solidity4 ,in this stage there could be no organic life2 but the earth was enveloped in dense clouds of vapor1 and there was no light for many ages1 because the earth's surface was below the electric and atomic rate that produced light1 and the dense gases and vapors floating around it and between it and the sun prevented the light penetrating its atmospheric pall of darkness4 ,but in that darkness and vapor and cosmic convulsions was going forward the processes of organic construction essential to fit it for the coming generations of sentient life4 ,night and darkness ruled1 but chaos had no part1 and never ruled in all the cycles of creative power4 ,the direct currents of electric force and the circular currents of magnetic power swept through and through earth's molecular structure1 ranging the atoms in all the lines of crystal perfection and spherical form1 and laying the rock-ribbed foundations in geological stratas in the heart and center of a growing world4 ,the lines of electro-magnetic force at this period in the planet1 with their circular spiral motion1 would shape the world into a globular spherical form1 and the elements in watery solution would almost come into crystalline firmness1 and then an impulse of electrical power would throw them into restless agitation2 and again they would respond to the grasp of magnetic strength and return to a state of partial arrest near the crystal condition1 and again sway back to the electric primitive molecular state4 ,but they could not get free from the lines of magnetic force which held them with giant grasp until they were incorporated into the foundation rocks of earth's solidifying sphere4 ,and the centre of our planet became a vast solid crystalline magnet1 and was never a fiery mist or molten substance4 ,finally when the crystalline rocks were settled into a crystalline globe the life-cell was born as the basis of a new condition of planetary form4 ,and in the dark waters where no light was1 organic life under the law of creative electric energy began its work upon the planet4 ,the life-cell is the resultant of electric-magnetic action4 ,during this period of primeval darkness upon the face of the earth1 the resistless electric waves of the sun were beating upon the cloud-enwrapped surface of the planet1 but its light had no power to penetrate its cimmerian gloom4 ,and the earth was sending back its pulsating magnetic currents to the sun1 and both were evolving themselves into giant dynamos of marvelous electric power--giving and receiving electric currents of positive and negative polarity of wonderful life-giving potency4 ,gradually the earth solidified into a vast magnet of crystalline rock and metal and like the magnetic core of a steel magnet of vast extent and power1 it drew millions of meteors from space4 ,the internal electric forces in volcanic convulsions were upheaving islands1 continents and mountain ranges1 rending the rocks and crystalline strata in the contracting crust of the earth1 amid lightning flashes and resounding crashes of thunder1 like the fabled ,titans in primeval battle4 ,it was a contest of the giant forces in their elemental power baptizing a world in the fires of creative and creating energy4 ,the planet was shaken by magnetic force and torn and agitated by electric storms4 ,gigantic boulders were dislodged from the surface and ground into powder against each other1 making soil for coming vegetation and marking out the pathway of the rivers and valleys4 ,it was the adjustment of elemental forces1 the night of ages in whose depths and womb of viewless power conscious life originated by electric energy under the evolving law of evolution as the will of ,creative ,deity4 ,and the mountain ranges following the lines of axial direction of the two poles upon opposite sides of the planet began to slowly rise above the surrounding waters1 and lifted their mighty crests above a world floating in surging waters1 and darkness1 except as it was lit up by lightning gleams of electric power4 ,it may be that during this stage of the planet was laid the foundation of all the distinctive types of life-force1 including the cell forms that lay at the basis of living structure1 the plant forms and the living forms of animalcular life that float in the ocean below and mists above4 ,all of which had their home and birth in the dense darkness that covered the face of the deep4 ,it was the formative period of elementary life1 and the descendants and successors of that mighty host of living beings have to this day to lay the foundations of their being in similar conditions of darkness4 ,creative energy in its first stages of living form operates in dense darkness1 and the first life upon the planet began and perfected itself in the age when midnight gloom enveloped the globe4 ,the ,supreme ,power1 says the author of ,planetary ,evolution1 wrought out its purpose with no eye to discern its workings and no helpless ignorance to dictate what was needed to make a world4 ,the deep-sea soundings show that life still exists there without the aid of sunlight and that there is no limit to the domain of organic life4 ,and the necessity exists even at this age for darkness during the formative processes of embryonic life4 ,all microscopic life embodies the essential characteristics of activity and form that distinguish many of the distinct types of animal and vegetable life4 ,the mould that gathers upon decaying bread is a great forest when sufficiently magnified4 ,the wiggling animalcul in the stagnant water is but a prototype of the writhing serpent of the ,brazilian forest4 ,in these two types of minute organic being we see the first stages of life in planetary formation4 ,and the induced electric energy on the animalculine organism compelled it to both growth and activity1 and1 obedient to that principle1 it added cell to cell in any direction that that electric energy in that form sought relief1 thus producing different types of organic structure4 ,the influence of the pent-up currents of electric energy was destined to have a moulding power upon the higher types of organic life1 for their influence upon the living form soon became manifest in the construction of nerve-tissue1 which is the basis of all animal structure1 and the beginning of all embryotic form1 and is essentially the same in all organic life4 ,all attempts of science to formulate a theory of the source of life end in an abstraction4 ,to teach that life originates in a germ leads to an analysis that shows the germ is a compound form itself1 and one of the stages of incipient life4 ,the advocate of the cell as the primitive source of life soon discovers that the cell is the result of chemical forces that have not yet arrived at the germ state1 and that both the germ and the cell are but successive stages of life development1 and we must go further back into the realm of the invisible electro-magnetic forces for the true source of physical life4 ,here the untrained intellect is bewildered and is unable to discern any relation of force beyond the physical senses1 and science and reasoning causation must explore the invisible realities1 and realms of force beyond the physical senses1 which requires the highest order of mental training4 ,it is in the mental realm1 the realm of spirit and electricity1 that we must seek the solution of all the higher problems of life and destiny4 ,in the spermatozoa of the male is the first evolution of the organic life of the planet4 ,it is the electro-chemical combination of elements in which the primitive cell was formed1 and in nature's corresponding environment it goes steadily forward through all previous stages until perfected in form1 and becomes a miniature production of its parent structure4 ,it thus unconsciously followed the forces and elements of the parent organism whereby that parent organism came into being from its parent1 and so on backward for generations and ages4 ,and in order to perfect the power of sex to the highest degree and preserve the life of the race1 there was a differentiation in the embryonic state1 whereby one organism1 the male1 became the power to preserve the energy1 while the other1 the female1 became the environment to perfect the form4 ,this was no miracle1 but a response of the organism to the waves of electric power in the planet1 which at times and conditions would be more positive or negative in their electric energy4 ,for all the elements of life and the universe animate and inanimate are sexual1 male or female1 positive or negative1 in their natural relations4 ,the higher types of life are almost wholly dependent upon the arrangement of the cells on a high electric tension1 and the early forms were almost wholly of nerve-tissue structures1 and the primitive animalcul followed the law of differentiation and were able to construct muscular fiber and bone formation1 and became the fish and reptiles that inhabited the ancient seas4 ,the processes of planetary formation are resultants of electrical action among the elements that form the planet1 and here is the true field of scientific research for the knowledge of causation as expressed through world construction4 ,to the chemist and electrician belong the task of explaining the processes of world building as well as the secrets of life itself1 and they must be found in the laws that control the electro-magnetic ether that permeates all atoms and space4 ,in the paleozoic age there were surging tides of electric energy through the planet itself1 producing induced currents in all the forming bodies upon its surface4 ,and these primitive currents swept the cell-formations into lines parallel with their lines of force the same as crystallizations1 and as they were floating in circumambient water1 the cells took the form of tissue structure1 forming organs that followed the crystalline law of self preservation1 and1 in response to changing electric currents1 throwing out new cell-structures4 ,nerve tissue is the highest form of atomic balance that is visible1 and the true basis of form structure that has vitality to meet the shifting electric currents4 ,the tiny cells joined themselves to form new structures to respond to the electric waves1 while the lower magnetic induction of the planet sent its power over the new tissue to hold it in form so that the organism could be partially permanent in form in its new environment4 ,in this manner the organism grew and expanded from the primitive animalcular nerve type to the consolidated1 firm tissue that enabled it to hold itself from dissolution under adverse conditions and planetary changes4 ,the action of electric force in building secondary forms with a magnetism of their own is one of the most wonderful exhibitions of nature4 ,and now comes a startling result of this type of energy that has called living organism into being from the lower grades of atomic life4 ,the cells that have formed themselves around a central point1 as in the crystalline state1 begin to quiver and vibrate with a strong rapidity that defies all power of restraint4 ,in them is to be seen a new relation of the elements that grade still higher in the scale of atomic action4 ,they have risen in the power of sensitiveness above the plane of receptive response to the swaying currents of the earth1 and begin to send out currents of their own4 ,those currents penetrate the whole system with strange energy1 and the organism begins to respond with new expressions of power4 ,it moves with reference to the currents that it creates itself1 and we have the first type of creation with a brain center governing the whole system4 ,that brain tissue is the result of the action indirect of the electric energy that is sweeping the planet in ceaseless lines of force and power4 ,it sends its induced currents upon all the forming host of animalcular life floating in the dark waters1 and some begin to grow brains4 ,the cellular structure ranges itself in line with the positive and negative polarity that made the crystalline form of the world a globe1 and from that living cell-battery go out the currents that control the form by the inward force that ever after is to witness to the power of constructive energy to create living beings with sentient power to regulate and control their own destiny4 ,meanwhile the surging tides of electric energy are forcing the continents upward1 and the fish that swim in the paleozoic seas find the waters receding and himself part of the time on the land or in the mud and shallows1 and the growing organism1 from generation to generation becomes adapted to each condition of life on land and water4 ,then comes to pass the raising of the organism from the fish to the reptile by the influence of electrical induction and change of environment4 ,then also comes the growth of plant life1 and the marvelous varieties of vegetation in the form of tree and shrub and grass4 ,upon the land1 half submerged1 the vegetation that had its rootlets in the former ocean bed grew from sea weeds into rank grasses and ferns1 the types of which are seen to this day in the dense forests and jungles of the tropics4 ,in the early period of the paleozoic age the molusks1 polyps1 and marine plants were evolved without any reference to light whatever and depended on the sense of feeling to provide for the necessary food supplies to maintain their organism4 ,we have in the night-blooming cereus a flower that belonged in that epoch of the world's evolution when plants flowered and perfected their seed bearing in the dark4 ,and in the salamander1 beaver and hippopotamus a type of the amphibious animals of the early ages4 ,we have in the bat a type of animal that flourished in the darkness of earth's formative period1 and in the embryonic period of animal and man we find the beginning of the life processes in the darkness of the womb1 and all seed of vegetable and plant must be buried in the darkness of earth before it can bring forth new life4 ,every living structure on the planet takes form by the laws of nature's creative processes2 and the secret unfolding of life structure to-day1 however perfect at maturity1 is a complete record of all the previous stages of formative growth in animal life1 from the vertebra of the fish to the contour of the mammal and the man1 condensed as to time during the period of gestation1 but following the original lines of formative structure1 power and principle4 ,this and all growth and evolution is the result of electrical energy under divine law and spiritual control4 ,electrical power is the great agent in arranging molecular compounds into all forms of animal and plant life as well as crystalline structures and world forms4 ,the duplicates of plant life with the secondary crystalline forms are found in limestone caverns of the earth4 ,there1 in the dense stillness of eternal night1 many forms that are seen above ground as plants and flowers are there wrought out in solid stone1 as the crystalline limestone rock has arranged its molecular structure obedient to the same lines of form as the electric currents in the upper atmosphere follow in vegetable life4 ,thus in the eternal nature of the atom and electric energy with their inherent potencies the ,creator has abundant resources not only to make this planet1 but also the countless worlds of boundless space4 ,and in the wonders of electrical potency in this planet alone ,he is constantly producing results that excite profound gratitude and reverence4 ,at length when the clouds of darkness faded away and the atmosphere became translucent1 and the glorious light of the sun--the great electric heart of our system of worlds--shone upon the earth1 there was a new realm of infinite life and expression to lift the world and all organic life to a higher state of perfection4 ,while the world1 like an enormous battery1 had in itself enough energy to hold the planet in its spherical form and to stimulate to activity the secondary forms of life1 had not the sun come into more vigorous activity with its electric life-giving energy the earth could not have gone above the primitive forms of life4 ,with this greater influx of power from another sphere of causative energy1 the dark age of animality passed and the monstrous types faded out1 and in the place of them the world began to bear a class of beings that could reflect the power and principles of light and beauty4 ,and under the pulsations of the sun's electrical and magnetic energy the earth started on its marvelous career of organic growth and development4 ,the sun1 as an immense electrical reservoir battery1 must radiate in all directions its electric vibratory power over the surging elements in its own environment and from thence through electric atomic transfer to bodies in space4 ,so that whenever a body was in direct line with the magnetic centers of the sun1 the arrest of the electric current and atomic motion coming from the sun's center by another magnetic center1 as the earth or any other planet1 would instantly change the rate of the environment of the planet magnet to a grade of intensity that would give light and heat4 ,in this manner light1 heat and greater vital force was born upon the earth1 when its dark clouds lifted and its atmosphere became translucent1 so that the sun's electric currents could affect the earth through electric transfer4 ,thus the influx of external light upon planetary life was positive and marvelous1 introducing a new power upon the forming organic life in the vegetable and animal world1 and working great changes in all organic structures4 ,and in response to this new power the eye began to form and a new and distinct organ of sense was perfected4 ,it was slowly developed at first1 for the light radiated from the sun penetrated the mists of earth dimly1 for it was almost midnight gloom in some sections and dusky twilight in others4 ,so far ,i have said nothing of excessive heat1 for the earth began in excessive cold4 ,but as the earth magnet or dynamo increased its electric power it increased its heat4 ,we now come to the dawn of instinct or rationality in the primitive types of life4 ,there we find a basis for the first principles of instinct or animal rationality in the balancing of one sense by the exercise of another1 and the combined results of the two4 ,seeing and feeling gave a higher type of brain power1 and raised that organ to a higher grade of perception and a newer type of intelligence4 ,then another faculty added its powers to the sense of sight and feeling1 for the atmosphere in which the reptilian tribes were living half the time or more were sending out sound waves which touched the nervous filaments of the central battery of the brain1 and as the eye had formed to respond to the waves of ether caused by the electric currents of the sun1 so a new organ began its formation in response to the incoming waves of power the atmosphere brought to the brain-cells1 and the ear began to gather in concentric circles around the brain-center1 and a new sense--that of hearing--was formed4 ,thus there was an additional increase of the power of perception or instinct4 ,thus were evolved all types of animal form and animal instinct4 ,they were the result of electric energy1 sense perception1 and long ages of growth1 comparison and environment4 ,then came man1 the highest type of animal organism4 ,man may have passed the successive changes and transmutations of form that the shifting vibratory rates of the planet responded to in the long period of world building4 ,he may have attained to the grade of animal activity as a mind of the highest order in bodily form before he received the spiritual powers and intellectual force which he has exhibited all along the ages1 after all animal forms had battled with the elements in the struggles to keep in equilibrium between the surging tides of electrical dispersion and magnetic concentration4 ,certain it is man holds his own by virtue of his steady rise in mental power which has no limit of evolution in the present stage of physical life and psychic life4 ,and there are no known boundaries of his power to penetrate all mysteries and explore all conditions of existence wherever being has laid foundations1 or law is working out the problems of infinite destiny4 ,man came as a spiritual creation4 ,many scientists discard the religious or ,mosaic concept of a special creation of man and a divine revelation1 and hold that the revelations of science are the only revelations of ,god that the world can regard as reliable4 ,i cannot agree with them that man was evolved from the animal creation4 ,i hold he was a special creation1 as ,moses says he was2 but that special creation was not his body--that may have been evolved from the lowest forms of animal life through many ages1 and is no part of the real man4 ,it was woven by electric law and energy as an overcoat of atoms for his earthly habitation4 ,man's body is not man1 but the house in which he lives for a time1 the earthly temple of the soul4 ,moses affirms this when he says ,god breathed into man the breath of life1 and man became a living soul4 ,it is the breath of ,god1 the atom of ,deity1 the living soul that constitutes man1 and that was a special creation4 ,this ,i have discussed at length in ,invisible ,light4 ,i hold no law of evolution could bridge the gulf between man and the animal creation4 ,the fixity of brute instinct1 and the boundless expansion of mental and psychic force in man forbid such a conclusion and confirm ,moses1 who says he was made lord over the earth and all animal creations4 ,man has three bodies--a spiritual1 an electric and a physical body4 ,animals have only two--an electric and physical body4 ,and both the electric and physical bodies of men and animals came from the same source and are governed by the same laws4 ,animal instinct is not spirit1 is not a part of ,deity1 it cannot dream of ,god or heaven1 or comprehend the universe or weigh suns and worlds4 ,it knows only the electric impulses of the material senses and reasons from these alone1 and1 by balancing one sense by another1 attains an experience which in time becomes an automatic habit or force of nature under the law of its electric organism4 ,it feels all sensations1 like hunger1 passion or fear1 as an electric impulse on the sensitive tissues of the brain and responds from natural habit4 ,it does not think1 reason or soar into the boundless fields of ideality4 ,it cannot feel the spiritual touch of human souls1 or the divine impulse of ,god and love1 of music1 poetry1 language1 art and religion1 as does the human soul4 ,man is as much above the animal creation as the animal is above the vegetable and the vegetable above the mineral4 ,we have seen that the mineral is created by aggregations of atoms solidified under the law of magnetic attraction and brought to rest by balanced forces into crystalline form1 and thus incorporated into the foundation elements of the earth magnet4 ,they are simply electric and atomic forces and atoms balanced and at rest4 ,they have no organic existence4 ,vegetable life1 which is next above them1 have organisms1 and are sun engines breathing in nitrogen and giving out carbonic acid or oxygen to sustain animal life4 ,the vegetable organism furnishes food for all animal life4 ,there can be no evolution of plant life into animal life4 ,it is not scientific to search for such an irrational order of development4 ,vegetable1 plant and tree in their organic life structure1 never become animals4 ,they have no independent existence separate from the sun's rays and the earth's soil except as latent in seed life4 ,cut off the sun currents from their leaves and the electric earth currents from their roots1 and they are at once weakened and destroyed4 ,animals are a higher order of life which have an independent existence in atmosphere and water--electric elements--separate from earth dust1 and which evolve and give forth in their own organism the electric instinct and impulse which controls their own actions and habits4 ,they have no psychic or intellectual force1 and can never be evolved into human souls or organisms4 ,man is as far above the animal creation as the heavens are above the earth4 ,he is not the descendant of a monkey or any other animal creature except possibly in his bodily organism4 ,he is a soul and belongs to the ,spiritual ,kingdom of ,god4 ,the scientists say there are three kingdoms in nature--mineral1 vegetable and animal4 ,i say there are four--mineral1 vegetable1 animal and man1 or the spiritual ,kingdom of ,god4 ,man is a soul or spiritual body which is from ,god and a part of ,god4 ,he can think1 reason1 aspire1 analyze1 and soar into the psychic realms of the spiritual world and commune with angels and ,deity1 and is a spirit monarch of the universe4 ,and his longing1 heaven-bound nature cries out to ,deity3 ,thou hast made us for thyself1 and our souls are restless till we rest in thee6 ,the vegetable has the elements of the mineral1 with a material organism added2 the animal has the elements of the mineral and vegetable with a material organism and an electric body and instinct added4 ,the animal may possibly live hereafter in his electric body or secondary form4 ,man has the elements of the mineral and vegetable1 the material body and the electric body of the animal1 and added to all these he has a psychic or spiritual body1 which links him to ,deity1 and makes him the epitome of all creation1 the child of ,god and the universe1 and the sovereign of eternal life1 love and destiny4 ,the recent discovery of a man's skull at ,lansing1 ,kansas1 found sixty feet below the earth's surface1 under many stratas of rock formation in the ooze at the bottom of a sea that existed in the glacial period1 shows a cranial or brain development equal to the average man of the present day4 ,this skull1 estimated by scientists to be from thirty to forty thousand years old1 with such a splendid head formation1 shows conclusively that man was never evolved from the animal creation1 but is a separate and superior being above the animal1 and lord over all the animal creation4 ,this ,lansing skull is one of the greatest discoveries of the age and confirms man's high lineage and ancient residence on this revolving planet1 and supports ,moses and the ,bible4 ,also the recent discoveries in the ruins of ,ninevah1 ,babylon1 ,nipur1 and other ancient cities of ,asia ,minor1 and also in ,egypt1 reveal written leases and other documents eight thousand years old1 which show that man has possessed superior knowledge and intelligence from the earliest periods of the world's history1 and tend to support the biblical theory that man was a special creation1 and not an evolution in his psychic nature from the lower animals4 ,man and human history1 while complicating1 does not alter the real force and nature of evolution4 ,while it is said the history of the world is the biography of great men1 yet if ,alexander1 ,csar1 ,napoleon1 ,frederick the ,great1 ,william the ,conqueror and other great men were eliminated1 it would have had little effect in disturbing the steady onward course of the world's development4 ,great men are the images1 symbols and instruments taken at random by the constant and mighty forces of their age and times which stood behind them and swept them onward in their great careers4 ,they were the pens of ,fate used in her writing1 the weather vanes of destiny which turned the way the currents and tides of invisible forces were blowing4 ,humanity of the past and present is not final but progressive4 ,man's marvelous discoveries in science1 his aesthetic culture and spiritual growth makes the future of the race the most persistently fascinating question of the age4 ,man is not a mere animal1 but is one with ,deity1 and a part of that unseen spiritual power which directs the stars in their infinite courses1 gives electric brilliancy to the all-dazzling sun1 paints the dawn and the aurora1 colors the gorgeous wings of the butterfly1 and guides insensate matter to do the will of ,omnipotence4 ,,chapter ,v ,,man ,,is ,a ,,soul ,,clad ,,in ,,air1 ,a ,,spirit ,,in ,,an ,,electric ,,organism ,my claim that man is an electric organism is confirmed by ,professor ,loeb and ,dr4 ,mathews in their recent experiments at the ,chicago ,university4 ,electrical charges in the atoms of the bodily tissue are responsible for all the active phenomena of life4 ,in other words1 electricity is the basis of life4 ,this is the sweeping conclusion with which ,dr4 ,jacques ,loeb amazed the physiologists gathered in their last annual meeting at the ,chicago ,university4 ,hitherto it has been taken for granted by men of science that the food we eat nourishes us by furnishing the tissues and muscles of the body with thermo or heat energy4 ,this1 according to ,professor ,loeb1 is totally wrong4 ,instead of the food furnishing the muscle with heat energy1 it supplies electrical energy1 which1 after being converted into mechanical energy1 is responsible for all the muscular contractions and organic processes of living organisms4 ,he has arrived at this conclusion after many years of intricate and difficult experiments along the line of reproduction of animals1 of determining the effect of salt on the heart-beat and its rythmic motion1 and on other muscles1 and of the destructive processes at work in the eggs of simple unicellar animals4 ,they have been the means of determining the answer to the one great question1 ,what is life8 and he regards all his previous discoveries subsidiary to this one4 ,he received his first hint of this new theory of life through the fact that electricity is able to affect protoplasm in a more universal and effective way than any other form of stimulus4 ,and he drew the inference that if electricity is able to affect protoplasm in the form of currents1 it ought to do so in the form of ions1 which is an electrically charged atom or group of atoms4 ,in experimenting to determine the toxic and antitoxic of ions on protoplasm1 which is the basic substance of all physical life1 he discovered that any one salt will act as a poison on the eggs of a sea urchin1 but by adding one or more1 or certain other salts1 he found it was able to counteract the effects of this toxic effect4 ,from which he concluded that the toxic and antitoxic effect of the salts were due to the manner in which its atoms are electrically charged4 ,he found that when a salt whose atoms are positively charged come in contact with the eggs of the sea urchin1 they interfered with the life processes1 while salts whose atoms were negatively charged stimulate contraction2 and the presence of both positively and negatively charged atoms were necessary1 and the phenomena of life is due to the play between the different charges of electricity in the molecules4 ,the energy of foodstuffs and motions of the heart and other muscles of the body are not due to the production of heat1 but to the chemical energy in electrically charged molecules4 ,he says3 ,a part of the chemical energy of foodstuffs is transformed into electric energy1 which gives energy to the body4 ,in one experiment ,i put a jelly-fish in contact with a solution of electrically charged substances1 and it immediately responded by muscular contraction4 ,i then put it in a substance that was a non-conductor and there was no response4 ,in this way ,i concluded it was the electric charges which effected the muscular contraction1 that a pure salt always acts as a poison to the egg1 and in order not to have toxic effects it is necessary that the positive and negative electric charges should easily balance4 ,a muscle is stimulated by electro-negatively charged particles1 and prevented from contracting by electro-positively charged particles4 ,i have experimented with eggs of different low forms of animal life1 with single protoplasmic cells1 and with muscles4 ,professor ,mathews has shown that my results hold true for nerves4 ,i took the eggs of the fundulus and found that after they were fertilized they will develop in sea water4 ,in a sodium-chloride solution ,i found they will not develop1 but by adding a trace of calcium as many eggs will develop as in the sea water4 ,this is due to the electrically charged atoms of the calcium4 ,artificial parthenogenesis1 or life artificially produced1 has been of interest only as it leads me to learn how the electric charges of ions affect life phenomena4 ,you can bring about parthenogenesis only by positive ions4 ,i have come to two conclusions3 ,first1 rythmical contraction occurs only in the presence of electrically charged substances4 ,second1 the efficiency of the charges depends upon the number of the charges or the different ions4 ,professor ,mathews has arrived at a third conclusion1 which is1 that the negatively charged ions are those which stimulate1 and the positively charged ions are those which hinder contraction4 ,dr4 ,loeb's paper created a sensation among the assembled scientists1 as also did that of ,professor ,a4 ,p4 ,mathews1 on ,the ,nature of the ,nerve ,stimulation and ,alteration of ,irritability4 ,dr4 ,loeb's discoveries have revolutionized the basic principles of physiology1 declared one of the scientists4 ,a greater part of the text-books on this subject will have to be rewritten to accord with the results of these new views of life phenomena4 ,and ,dr4 ,g4 ,n4 ,stewart1 who presided at the meeting1 eulogized ,dr4 ,loeb and said1 ,he has given us an insight into the mechanics of living tissue which we never before have had4 ,he has brought forward the science of electro-physiology1 which has hitherto been despised1 but which will now be accorded a respectable position4 ,professor ,garrett ,p4 ,serviss says3 ,this discovery of ,dr4 ,loeb and ,prof4 ,mathews comes closer to the solution of the mystery of life than physiologists have ever before been able to approach1 and is so fundamental and far reaching as to warrant the hope that we shall soon know what are the conditions and the limits of man's power to prolong his own life4 ,the whole foundation of physiology and medicine may be reconstructed1 and we may find that we possess a control over the phenomena of life more masterful than anybody has yet dared to dream4 ,briefly1 it has been discovered that our nerves consist of what is called a colloidal solution--that is1 matter resembling gelatin held in solution in water before it is jellied1 and these colloidal particles in the nerves carry charges of positive electricity4 ,when the nerve particles pass from the colloidal condition into the state of gelation1 or become jellied1 the nerve experiences a stimulation or becomes active4 ,this is produced by the action of atoms or ions bearing charges of negative electricity4 ,this explains the action of certain chemical substances when introduced into the human body1 some of which tend to quiet the nerves and others to excite them4 ,the nerve-quieting ions are those that bear charges of positive electricity1 such as atoms of sodium1 potassium1 calcium and hydrogen1 and tend to keep the colloidal particles of the nerves in a state of solution1 so that the nerves remain inactive4 ,the nerve-stimulating ions are atoms of such substances as fluorine and chlorine1 which carry charges of negative electricity and cause the nerve particles to coalesce or become jellied1 in which condition the nerve is active1 the degree of activity depending upon the intensity of the stimulation4 ,death appears to be the result of the stagnation of the nerves1 and this discovery may enable us to oppose the process that ends in death4 ,this throws a flood of light on other obscure problems1 and offers an explanation of the effect of anaesthetics upon the human body4 ,anything that tends to keep the nerve particles in a state of solution quiets the nerves4 ,now1 nerve particles are largely composed of fat1 and anaesthetics dissolve fat4 ,hence anaesthetics produce the effect of positively electrified ions1 preventing the nerve particles from coalescing and thus quiets the nerves4 ,the action of whiskey in arresting the progress of snake poison is explained4 ,the alcohol counteracts the coagulating tendency and keeps the nerves in a colloidal condition4 ,it explains many other familiar facts1 as why heat tends to quiet the nerves1 and that chemical stimulation is identical with electrical stimulation1 and solves the long standing puzzle of muscular contractility4 ,dr4 ,h4 ,preston ,pratt1 an eminent electro-therapeutic expert1 says3 ,dr4 ,loeb's experiments have demonstrated that electricity is life--that the entire human organism is controlled by electrical forces4 ,the twentieth century will prove electricity and not salt is the real life-giving principle4 ,if this force is taken away1 life ends1 and1 in the same manner1 if this force is supplied the result is the immediate stimulation of the organic life4 ,the necessary elements of life are taken into the body through the air and food1 and the entrance of the essential elements into the blood sets the human battery into operation1 and it continues to operate as long as the electrical forces are supplied to the blood4 ,the human body is of elements the same as a magnet and is built of smaller magnets or molecules4 ,this ,i have contended for many years4 ,he continued3 ,to show the connection between human life and electricity1 take an ordinary battery of chloride of ammonia or salammoniac and study its workings4 ,you will see that by the introduction of the element zinc the electrical current is found4 ,the zinc is of positive polarity and so is the ammonia1 while the chloride is electro-negative4 ,the electro-positive zinc has greater electric affinity for the chlorine than the ammonia has1 and consequently the ammonia is driven off and combined with chlorine1 forming chloride of zinc4 ,the result is the difference of an electric pull between the elements4 ,all admit that the force of elements forms a part of the anatomic structure1 and there must be electricity4 ,when oxygen is taken into a body it excites the elements in the same manner as the negative chlorine attacks the zinc in the battery4 ,the electrical circuit of the body is the circulating blood1 and when the oxygen and the nitrogen are taken in through the lungs the electro-negative ions go in one direction4 ,sulphur and oxygen are electro-negative and the other elements of the blood are electro-positive2 and consequently1 when the nitrogen and oxygen of the air attack the blood through the medium of the air cells1 we find that oxygen and sulphur pass in one direction1 while the other elements which are electro-positive pass in the opposite direction4 ,this action is electrolytic the same as if we apply a battery to the human body4 ,all this accords with my theory of electrical creation1 and proves1 as ,i have contended for many years1 that man's body as well as the universe is an electric organism4 ,in my book ,the ,new ,cosmogony1 published about five years previous to these discoveries1 ,i laid down the broad proposition that nature or the ,creator has never made but one pattern or type of a thing that exists1 and that is the electro-magnetic4 ,that suns and worlds1 man and all animal and vegetable organisms1 are electro-magnets4 ,that electricity was physical life1 and digestion and assimilation of food were purely electrical processes2 while the five senses--seeing1 hearing1 tasting1 smelling and feeling--were all electrical manifestations1 seeing and hearing being a form of wireless telegraphy4 ,that the electric combination of positive and negative atoms weaves the visible structure that envelops the soul4 ,the electric elements from the lungs and stomach enter into the blood1 and set the human battery in organic operation and create and continue human life4 ,thus the beginning of life is an electric process1 and the source of life is augmented and continued by absorbing electric energy from the air we breath1 from the food we eat and water we drink1 and not by the so-called thermal or heat digestive process1 but in the same way as we extract electricity from coal and wood--by a species of electric transformation or combustion1 like feeding a flame from the oxygen of the atmosphere4 ,the body is not only an electric machine or organism1 but the exercise of every function is an electric process4 ,and the derangement of any function1 which we call sickness or disease1 is an electric derangement4 ,prof4 ,loeb and ,dr4 ,mathews have shown how the body is woven of positive and negative atoms4 ,prof4 ,lucian ,i4 ,blake1 of the ,kansas ,university1 in his lecture1 ,atoms and ,their ,electric ,charges1 shows how medicine affects the human body and how life could be started in an unfertilized egg by inserting an electric current4 ,this was done by placing the white of the egg in a vessel containing salt1 calcium and water1 and turning an electric current into it4 ,life in this way can be raised to the fourth stage1 he says4 ,another interesting experiment was a comparison of the effect of electrical charges on the ferments of human blood1 yeast1 plant and platinum4 ,the ferments mixed with water were placed in separate vessels1 when the ions of each began to move about1 causing bubbles to go to the top of the vessels4 ,ether was placed in the different vessels1 and then a few drops of hydrocyanic acid1 a deadly poison1 were added4 ,the ether1 by having an opposite electrical effect to that of the acid1 neutralized its effect4 ,so1 in the case of all poisons1 if it be known whether the electrical effect is negative or positive to that of the blood ions1 an ion producing an opposite electrical effect will counteract the poison4 ,prof4 ,blake says3 ,the reason ether prevents the pain of operations is because it stops the coagulation of the nerves4 ,all atoms of matter are charged with electricity4 ,all vital actions are always connected with electricity4 ,all drug effects are brought about by electrical charges made with the meetings of the ions in the blood and those in the medicine4 ,how strongly does ,prof4 ,blake sustain my theory when he says1 ,all atoms of matter are charged with electricity4 ,all vital actions are always connected with electricity4 ,he also shows how medicines affect the human body1 how antidotes neutralize poison1 why stimulants arouse electrical energy1 and how narcotics stupify and deaden it4 ,electricity1 ,i contend1 is the active1 energetic and all-pervading ultimate force in nature1 controlled by the still more refined and ultimate spiritual force4 ,it is the medium and ever-active agent in evoking all visible forms and substances2 the medium which produces all affinities and repulsions in matter1 gyrating from the lowest to the highest elements and from globe to globe1 and constitutes the invisible controlling element whose results are known as laws4 ,electricity is the guardian and executive of the invisible laws of nature4 ,it is the suspension bridge spanning the darkness and chaos of space between suns and worlds4 ,man is the product of the perfect unfolding of nature's invisible electric laws1 and aggregate atomic elements2 and unites within himself all the elements and forces of the combined and harmonious universe4 ,he is an epitome of the universe and an atom of deity4 ,his form1 like all visible forms1 is only the temporal combination of material substances woven by invisible electric force out of invisible ether4 ,the thoughts of man's mind are the governing force of his organism4 ,the thoughts of the ,great ,creative ,mind constitute the laws of nature and the controlling force in the electric organism of the universe4 ,man is a ,soul clad in air4 ,the results of these thoughts of deity are the vast expanse of the universe and varied forms of animate and inanimate nature2 just as the result of man's thoughts are the varied structures1 temples and works of art1 constructed by him upon the surface of the earth4 ,all things man creates are the representatives of his thought1 the outward expression of his soul4 ,he creates nothing but what is a living evidence of his previous thought or concept4 ,all things tangible are the living evidence of a soul--the invisible soul or spirit of deity and man4 ,all material things are the forms of ,god's thoughts or man's thoughts1 which is the interior cause1 producing tangible effects4 ,for the natural world is the spiritual unfoldment made manifest in matter by electric energy4 ,but ,i must not consume space by a repetition of these things4 ,what the world wants is the truth1 and we are discovering it at a very rapid rate4 ,and if these theories are not the truth they are nearer to it than nine-tenths of the accepted truths of science4 ,the ancients knew little about their bodies1 or the mysterious operations of physical life4 ,they looked only at effects and the outside of things1 and knew nothing of the invisible forces of nature4 ,they regarded all the mysteries they could not understand as supernatural1 as outside of nature1 and produced by demons1 wizards1 necromancers1 or their imaginary gods4 ,their knowledge of their bodies was as limited as their knowledge of the universe1 which they regarded as a little span of flat earth and bending sky2 and they relied on incantations and prayers to restore the sick1 and on the flight of birds and the entrails of beasts to reveal the mysteries of the future4 ,they believed in obsession and deemed all sick1 insane and diseased persons as possessed of demon spirits or devils1 and their restoration to health or their right minds was called the casting out of devils4 ,the ancients also believed every evil propensity was the prompting of some demon spirit that possessed the human body1 and that there was as many devils as there were evil propensities4 ,mary ,magdalene was possessed of seven devils1 and the man who had more evil propensities than they could enumerate was said to possess a legion of devils4 ,but the world is fast outgrowing the ignorance and superstition of the past and this is a fortunate and happy age in which to live4 ,this is pre-eminently the age of electricity--of mind and invisible forces--as the past century was an age of matter4 ,the whole world is feeling the electric thrill of a new life4 ,new voices call us1 new inspirations are in the air1 new thoughts crowd upon the thinking mind4 ,the reasoning soul catches whispers from the stars and celestial benedictions from the radiance of the sun4 ,man is a heaven-bound spirit in an electric body woven of dust and air1 of infinite ether and eternal atoms1 sifted through boundless space1 and tossed from suns to worlds2 and he is climbing to loftier spiritual heights and a diviner atmosphere4 ,the great men of the past had false ideals4 ,they were the ambitious conquerors1 who despoiled their own race and deluged the world in blood4 ,their thrones were built on pyramids of human skulls swimming in a sea of human blood and tears4 ,their triumphal march was heralded by the clanking chains of miserable captives1 and the wailing cries of widows and orphans4 ,for many ages human slavery1 grinding poverty and abject misery were the common heritage of the despoiled masses who lived in hovels1 were made food for cannon1 or were sold into bondage for debt1 while a few fortunate rulers reveled in luxury and swayed despotic power4 ,up to the recent centuries the chief vocations of men were the soldier and the priest--the one for slaughter and the other to appease the gods4 ,but the evolving ages have changed the ideals of the world1 and liberty and justice are no longer a dream2 but ,peace hath her victories no less renowned than war4 ,the time is near at hand when the ideals of men will be so exalted and their consciences so alive to the demands of love and justice that no man of wealth can sleep in his luxurious home or feast on choice viands and know of any human creature or dumb animal suffering from cold and want without first ministering to their needs4 ,this is the law of love written in every enlightened heart1 as it is written in the books of the ,new ,testament4 ,men are beginning to learn that the greatest thing in this world is not wealth1 with its pomp and pride1 though it may bring a thousand comforts4 ,it is not religion1 with its glorious dreams crowned with the promised beatitudes of heaven1 though martyred saints and prophets have given their lives to confirm its faith and hopes4 ,it is not literature1 with its gems of thought and flowers of divine fancy1 which have charmed and inspired mankind from the days of ,homer to those of ,shakespeare and ,tennyson4 ,it is not science1 with learning's ample page1 though she has transformed the earth1 and produced a ,gallileo and a ,newton4 ,it is not the wonders of mechanical genius1 though we stand in awe before their marvels of grandeur and utility4 ,it is not the beauty of inspiring art that lifts us to the altitudes of aesthetic joy4 ,these are but the ideals and manifestations of that which is higher and greater1 which is written in the soul of man as in a book4 ,man is the greatest thing in this world--ah6 in the universe next to ,deity4 ,he is the offspring of ,omnipotence1 the ,child of the ,sun1 the inheritor of the universe4 ,all suns and worlds1 all life and space are the playgrounds of his activities4 ,he shall dwell in the home of ,deity1 stroll in the garden of the gods1 bask in the radiance of central suns1 recline on the daffodil meadows and wander in the elysian fields of paradise4 ,he is at home in the measureless expanse of all ether and space4 ,wherever an atom vibrates or an electric current thrills1 there he is the monarch of spiritual power1 and can command the electric force that tosses suns upon their course and plays football with the stars4 ,man is no worm of the dust1 he is the darling of the skies1 the ruler of suns1 the cherubim of celestial destiny clad in terrestrial ether and winged with the spiritual power of ,omnipotence4 ,who nobly does must nobly think1 ,the soul that soars can never sink1 ,and man's a strange connecting link ,between frail dust and ,deity4 ,,chapter ,,vi ,,electrical ,,derangement ,,of ,,the ,,bodily ,,organism ,,produces ,,sickness ,,and ,,death ,i contend that man's body is an electric machine or organism1 and electricity is its vital force and governing power1 and all sickness is caused by the electrical derangement of the bodily organism4 ,electricity is the force which organized the body machine1 which runs the body machine1 and whose loss or deficiency cripples and finally destroys it4 ,sickness is the impairment of some of the parts or functions of the body by reason of its failure to get its necessary and natural supply of electrical energy4 ,this may be caused by an injury to some of its parts or by lack of proper air1 food and nutrition containing the electric properties required4 ,for air is an electric element from the life-giving sun1 and vegetable food is the embalmed rays of the sun1 and animal food is vegetable food embalmed in animal organism and brought one step nearer to electrical digestion1 and both air and nutriment are necessary to supply vital electricity to the living organism4 ,and while man can live without food forty days1 he cannot live without air four minutes4 ,the great force and power which run the human or animal machine is the vitalizing air we breathe1 the electric atmosphere in which we live1 move and have our being4 ,it is as much a substance as the water in which the fish swim1 though it is transparent to light1 while water is only partially so4 ,the lungs are the great electric reservoirs of the body and take the electric current of the sun from the atmosphere as constantly and naturally as the electric wire takes the current from the battery or the dynamo4 ,then it imparts electric energy to the blood and sends it as an electric current and fluid coursing through every part of the body1 producing vitalizing life and growth1 causing the heart valves to beat and pump with marvelous power1 the pulse to throb1 and the whole machine to pulsate1 thrill and whir with electric life and energy4 ,flammarion says three-fourths of a man's life energy and nourishment comes from the air4 ,and ,nicola ,tesla says the time may come when man may learn to live on air alone1 as do some kinds of vegetable and animal organisms4 ,man in time may learn to so mix the elements of the atmosphere to supply the needs of the body1 that he may1 by breathing it into his lungs1 obtain all the essential elements to preserve its life and organism4 ,the oxygen of the air keeps alive the fire of physical life1 and the body may be compared to a flame fed unceasingly by electric fire from the sun and atmosphere1 according to the laws of electric combustion4 ,the want of oxygen or this electric energy from the air extinguishes the flame of life as it extinguishes the flame of a lamp4 ,the blood could not course through the veins with such marvelous speed if it were not for the electric energy imparted to it in the electric reservoir of the lungs2 the heart valves could not throb with such wonderful force or the pulse keep its steady1 unceasing beat but for the electric power imparted by the wireless electricity of the air4 ,besides1 the electricity of the air passes through and through the pores of the body at every point1 giving additional life and force1 and every angle of the body draws electricity like the point of a lightning rod1 and the legs1 the arms1 the toes and the fingers with the space between them1 constitute horseshoe magnets of great efficiency4 ,a man's strength and endurance is measured by the electric atmosphere he draws into his lungs and the fuel or food he takes into his stomach or boiler4 ,a man's stomach bears a similar relation to the body that the boiler and furnace does to the machine1 and should be treated in very much the same way4 ,it should receive only the fuel necessary to its usefulness1 and the ashes and debris should be cleaned out every morning before building a fresh fire1 as is done with every well kept furnace4 ,the lungs take in pure electricity from the air1 while the stomach takes in compound electric elements1 vegetable and animal1 and converts them by the electric process of digestion and assimilation into blood and bone1 nerves and tissue1 and the two functions give vitality and growth to the whole body4 ,but the electric and controlling center of the bodily machine is the electric dynamo of the brain1 to which is attached the spinal column with its nerve branches reaching out to all parts of the body1 along which1 as on connecting wires1 the brain telegraphs its wish and will and governs the whole organism4 ,here the mind or soul dominates the brain and the brain dynamo dominates and controls the body4 ,through all the vicissitudes of life1 until the final dissolution of the body1 the telegrams from the brain running along the wires of the nerves control the muscles1 the movements and all the varied utilities of the body4 ,in other words1 the mind controls the electricity of the brain1 and the electricity of the brain controls the body4 ,if you cut a nerve or obstruct the electric current1 you cut off the electric control of the brain1 and there is paralysis in the part of the body where the electric wires are disconnected4 ,consumption is a disease caused by a failure of the lungs to draw sufficient electricity from the air to supply the normal needs of the body4 ,for lack of this electric energy the whole system becomes enfeebled and finally dissolved4 ,indigestion is a failure of the stomach to supply the necessary electric energy to assimilate the food4 ,and all sickness1 aches and pains are nature crying for electric energy necessary for her to fulfill her natural offices and functions4 ,dr4 ,jacques ,loeb1 of the ,chicago ,university1 announced on ,february #bbnd1 #aijc1 that he had discovered that muscular and nervous diseases1 such as ,st4 ,vitus' dance1 paralysis1 agitatus1 locomotor ataxia and sleeplessness1 can be cured by administering calcium salts because of their electrical effects4 ,he says the presence of calcium salts in the muscles prevents their twitching2 that practically all nervous disease are caused by the absence of the calcium1 and therefore to restore normal conditions and effect a cure a dose of calcium salts should be administered for its electrical effects upon the parts affected4 ,in recent years many persons have been restored to health and strength by the direct use of electric currents1 and many diseases have been cured by electric appliances4 ,the necessity for an ample supply of electricity1 both positive and negative1 to sustain and preserve the life of the bodily machine is now acknowledged by all thinking scientists4 ,we have seen how different kinds of medicine1 by furnishing the positive or negative molecules needed by the body1 restore the natural equilibrium and preserve life and health1 and how the failure to obtain these needed electrical supplies of life-giving energy1 either by food or medicine1 results in disease and death4 ,we have seen how toxic and varied poisons have their antidotes in opposite electrical elements and molecules1 and how stimulants excite and opiates quiet the electric energy of the body1 and it is unnecessary to dwell longer on this subject4 ,the fact that all sickness and death is caused by the electrical derangement of the body ,i think is now so clearly proven and so generally accepted1 that detail and extended argument is unnecessary4 ,to show that electricity builds up the body4 ,even at this late period in the world's history there are instances of nature returning to her primitive electric crystalline process even to the extent of converting man's body into stone4 ,four recent cases are reported in the medical records of man's flesh gradually turning to stone4 ,one case is reported from ,north ,judson1 ,indiana1 where ,eli ,green is turning to stone4 ,his muscles1 skin and flesh are gradually becoming as hard as the bones of his framework4 ,to the touch he is dead4 ,only the feeble action of heart1 lungs and stomach and a fertile and active mind give evidence that there is any life in him whatever4 ,the physicians declare he is afflicted with a disease that runs its course in seven years2 not a day more or less4 ,green has already dragged out his existence over four of these years2 only three of his short span of life remain4 ,there is a similar case reported of ,miss ,stella ,ewing1 the ossified woman of ,rome1 ,new ,york1 and one from ,sydney1 ,australia1 where ,jacques ,moritz was afflicted with the same terrible malady4 ,eight years ago ,moritz was seized with sickness that baffled every effort by the physicians to relieve it4 ,from the patient's feet a numbness began to creep upward4 ,that was the first sign of the disease4 ,the numbness steadily ascended1 and seven years from the day the malady first displayed itself the sickness had eaten its way into the patient's brain and had hardened it into stone exactly as it had hardened the muscles1 flesh and skin of his body4 ,then death relieved the sufferer4 ,there are several recent cases of a similar kind just reported in the newspapers4 ,this shows how easily nature can go back to her primitive electric process and in the crystalline formations resume her first step in world building4 ,and humanity is not entirely free from an occasional freak of nature in thus returning to her first processes of electric growth4 ,electricity teaches there is no death or need of a resurrection4 ,that which lived never dies4 ,electricity demonstrates the resurrection not of the physical body1 but rather the continued existence of the real body1 which is the electrical and spiritual body4 ,electricity proves there is no death4 ,i believe man has three bodies--first1 the physical body1 or organic aggregation of atoms2 second1 the invisible electric body1 which weaves and organizes the atomic body1 sometimes called the astral body2 and third1 the real man1 the spiritual body or soul1 which controls the atomic body by means of the electric body4 ,these constitute one perfect organism1 and in normal health and condition it is under the almost perfect control of the mind or spiritual body1 which sends forth its behest through the electric energy of the brain1 which is the seat of power having charge of the electric and atomic body4 ,death is the separation of the physical and spiritual bodies4 ,the physical body goes into the grave and dissolves back into its natural elements4 ,it fertilizes the soil and appears again in grass and tree and shrub1 and the cattle eat it1 and men eat the cattle1 and its molecules enter again into other bodies4 ,but there is no resurrection for the physical body2 it never comes out of the grave in organic form4 ,the spiritual and electric bodies never die1 never go into the grave4 ,this is the true resurrection--the life everlasting4 ,it is the invisible and secondary form which does not die1 cannot die1 and when once formed is as eternal as the stars4 ,the spiritual body and the electric form which surrounds it are incorruptible and start on their journey of endless existence together1 never to be separated or destroyed4 ,matter in its elemental form is invisible and eternal2 electricity and spirit are invisible and eternal4 ,thus when the real man throws off his overcoat of atoms and steps out of this mortal coil1 he is free from the limitations of matter and can command the electric energy to go where destiny points and draws him1 which is to the electric and spiritual center of our planetary system1 the self-luminous and perfected world1 the all-life-giving sun4 ,the oxygen of the air keeps alive the fire of physical life1 and the body may be compared to a flame being fed unceasingly according to the laws of combustion4 ,a want of oxygen extinguishes the flame of life as it extinguishes the flame of a lamp4 ,it is said a human being dies every second4 ,in ten thousand years1 two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere1 and have returned to them again4 ,they have enriched the earth and entered again into atmospheric circulation4 ,the earth is to-day formed in part of the myriads of brains which have thought and organisms which have lived4 ,we walk over our ancestors as those who come after us will walk over us4 ,it would be difficult to take a step upon the planet without walking over the remains of the dead1 or to eat or drink without reabsorbing what has been eaten and drank a thousand times before1 or to breathe without using the same air already many times used by the dead4 ,but this is not all there is of humanity4 ,all the souls that have lived still exist4 ,souls are the seed of terrestrial population4 ,we have no reason to affirm that man is formed solely of material atoms and that the faculty of thinking is only a property of his organization4 ,this is the mistake of the one-sided physicist4 ,when we analyze matter we find everywhere the invisible atom4 ,matter disappears like smoke in the atmosphere4 ,our bodies at death gradually disappear in the same way4 ,if our eyes had power to see the reality of things they would look through walls formed of separate molecules1 through seemingly solid bodies1 which are atomic vortices4 ,it is with the eye of the spirit that we must see4 ,we cannot trust to the sole testimony of our senses4 ,there are as many stars above our head in the daytime as at night4 ,nature knows neither astronomy1 physics nor chemistry2 these are subjective methods of study4 ,all things are one--the infinitely great and the infinitely small4 ,stars and atoms are as one4 ,to speak with exactness1 says ,flammarion1 solidity does not exist4 ,a heavy ball of iron is composed of atoms which do not touch each other2 its apparent solidity is pure illusion4 ,in scientific analysis it is a cloud of gnats like those that hover in the air at twilight4 ,heat this ball which seems so solid and it will flow like water2 heat it still more1 it will evaporate into invisible space without changing its nature4 ,it will always continue to be iron4 ,in a house1 its walls1 floors1 carpets and furniture are composed of molecules which do not touch each other4 ,and these molecules which constitute all matter revolve around each other4 ,it is the same thing with our bodies4 ,they are composed of molecules perpetually rotating around each other1 like a flame1 constantly consuming and constantly renewing itself4 ,it is like a river on whose banks we sit and fancy we see the same water flowing past1 but the current renews each drop perpetually4 ,each globule of our blood is a miniature world1 and we have five million in the fraction of a cubic inch1 flowing incessantly through our arteries1 flesh and brain1 rushing in a vortex of life1 as rapid relatively as that of the celestial bodies1 and continually renewing the molecules of our heart1 brain1 eyes1 nerves and flesh1 and every atom of our bodily organism4 ,and this so rapidly that in a few months our body is entirely reconstructed4 ,electricity1 the right hand of ,deity1 does all this and sustains the earth1 the sun and stars of the universe in infinite space4 ,that which gives man his organism is not his material part2 it is vital1 invisible1 electric force1 and mental power4 ,the body disintegrates all at once after death1 as it disintegrates slowly1 renewing itself perpetually1 during life4 ,in the future there will be no fearful apprehension that the coal deposits of the world will be exhausted4 ,the waters that now run to waste1 the ever moving tides of the restless sea1 the swift wings of the unused winds that sweep through the tides of the atmosphere will be harnessed to the car of human progress1 and furnish all the energy needed to supply the vast activities of the world4 ,the concentrated heating power1 latent in every sunbeam1 and the combustible gases hidden in every drop of water will be supplemental sources of boundless energy for all ages on this wonderful magnetic planet4 ,all sickness and ailments of the body are the result of the derangement of the electricity of the body1 for which there is a remedy4 ,the art of longevity will be restored to the human race by supplying the electric energy necessary to maintain its growth and vigor1 renew its wasted tissue and preserve its organic power4 ,then the age of ,methuselah may come again in longevity1 and the centenarian be in the boyhood of his race4 ,man will eat less1 enjoy more1 and get a thousand-fold more pleasure out of life1 and be better prepared for his swift translation to the celestial cities of the sun4 ,in the future he may not eat eleven hundred meals per annum1 but a few mouthfuls of concentrated food daily and an electric supply attachment adjusted to his body during sleeping hours may renew and rejuvenate his electric organism4 ,it may be that in the future every residence will contain a chamber supplied with air and gases containing all the elements of the body so adjusted as to give it continual life and vigor by merely breathing in its life-giving elements a few hours each day4 ,all these things are possible4 ,then there will be light and refreshing work of a few hours daily--no real toil or labor--for the electric devices and pliable machinery1 subject to the will of man and the electric button1 will do the work of the world4 ,then the soul will be paramount and soar above the grosser appetites and passions to gather celestial joys in the spirit realm of earth's diviner life4 ,this is pre-eminently the age of mind and invisible forces1 as the past century was the age of matter4 ,francis ,grierson says3 ,so far as we know1 electricity is the soul of form4 ,what we call brain waves have an analogy to electric waves4 ,we are being ruled by the seemingly impossible1 and the most successful inventors of the present day would have passed for madmen twenty years ago4 ,the so-called dreamers are now the men of action who have proven their power and competence1 and thinking people turn to them for more miracles of discovery and invention4 ,the day is not far distant when science of the mind will treat material science as a plaything1 and the psychic power of intellect will kill ,mammon like the stroke of an electric bolt1 and brute power will succumb to soul force4 ,the thinkers of to-day are as far removed from the thinkers of #ahgj as electricity is from steam4 ,we know steam is a crude and clumsy thing compared with electricity1 and to-morrow we shall awake to the fact that mind is just as superior to the crude electric current4 ,one of the strong desires of mankind is a long life with a cheerful1 vigorous old age4 ,this may be obtained by supplying the necessary electrical energy either in proper food1 or by a direct supply of electricity4 ,this will prevent the hardening of the cellular tissues which produces the decrepitude of old age1 and help to bless and lengthen human life4 ,with the divine powers of mind and electricity working for man the millennium of a long life and happiness will soon arrive4 ,,chapter ,,vii ,,all ,,light1 ,,heat ,,and ,,life ,,is ,,evolved ,,only ,,in ,,the ,,atmosphere ,,of ,,suns ,,and ,,planets ,i contend there is no light1 heat or physical life except in the magnetic atmosphere of suns and planets4 ,that only in this marvelous electric belt which surrounds the earth1 sun and planets is light1 heat and life evolved1 for there alone is it needed for animal and vegetable life4 ,there is neither light1 heat nor physical life in space4 ,physical life cannot exist in the cold1 dark ether of space1 and without life1 light and heat would be not only useless1 but as both are sensations of physical organisms they could have no existence whatever4 ,they only exist as sensations caused by electric currents passing either to or through organic bodies4 ,where those organic bodies do not exist light and heat do not exist1 for nature does no useless1 nugatory things4 ,no physical life can be evolved or exist1 except in the electric atmosphere of suns and planets where the life-giving electric currents meet and exert their power1 and then only by drawing that life as an electric current from the sun constantly into the lungs every minute4 ,in this way only is life and growth generated and all physical organisms created and continued in existence4 ,thus all life is preserved and renewed by drawing the wireless electricity from the air just as the electric wire takes it from the dynamo4 ,the vital portion of the air we draw into the electric reservoir of our lungs is simply our daily life drawn each day from the life-giving sun4 ,this life and all that exist on earth or planets could not come from a burning globe or a molten sun4 ,it is a superlative absurdity to think so4 ,light1 heat and life are the products of electric energy1 which is only called into existence by the contact of positive and negative electricity in nature's chosen medium--the atmospheric environment of suns1 planets and their satellites4 ,this is nature's chosen theatre for animal and vegetable life4 ,there is no reason or necessity for light1 heat or animal and vegetable life elsewhere in the universe4 ,here upon the surface of suns and planets are the mighty and varied currents of electric power and magnetic force1 weaving forms and substance from invisible atoms and molecules1 under the laws of electric attraction and organic affinity4 ,in the economy of nature there are no wasted energies1 or useless activities4 ,light1 heat and physical life in space or transparent ether would be useless and nugatory2 therefore nature ignores such folly in all her fruitful processes4 ,there may be reflected light1 or a fluorescent glow1 as in the tail of a comet or in the nebula of frigid space1 but nothing we can truly call either heat or light can be evolved outside of the atmospheric sheet surrounding and penetrating the surface of suns1 planets and satellites4 ,we walk on the surface of a revolving magnet and dynamo more perfect in measureless power and efficiency than any man has ever invented or dreamed of1 and it generates the power which makes light1 heat and life in its own electric environment1 where all things live1 move and have their being4 ,it does not get light and heat from the sun2 it gets electric currents with which it manufactures light and heat4 ,prof4 ,richard ,proctor says3 ,profs4 ,bond and ,zollner calculated that ,jupiter sends forth more light than he receives from the sun1 and he concludes that1 if this be true1 ,jupiter must be partially self-luminous and shines in part by his own light4 ,this sustains my position that there is no such thing as borrowed light from the sun1 any more than borrowed heat from the sun4 ,there are currents of electricity from the sun which burst into light and heat on the earth and planets when they come in contact with their opposite electricity4 ,but each globe in space evolves its own light and heat in its own environing atmosphere4 ,if ,jupiter shines by its own light1 then the earth and planets all shine by their own light1 the sun furnishing the electric power to enable them to do so4 ,i think our moon is no exception4 ,it evolves the mild silvery light it displays in our midnight skies from its own attenuated atmosphere1 but displays it1 like the planets1 only on the side exposed to the direct rays of the sun4 ,the greater and denser parts of the moon's atmosphere is in the deep and numerous cavities of its torn and rugged volcanic surface4 ,all planets and satellites shine by the light evolved in their own atmosphere4 ,i contend that no reliance can be placed in the spectroscopic evidence of heat in the sun1 or any distant globe4 ,this ought to be apparent when all light and heat rays can only be translated into photography as a picture evolved in our own atmosphere4 ,what we see are the electric colors in the atmosphere of a distant sun or planet4 ,the spectroscope simply photographs the colors of the elements in solution composing the atmosphere1 just as we photograph the rich colors of a glowing sunset or a gorgeous rainbow4 ,the evidence of the spectroscope as to heat has been greatly exaggerated and overestimated by the scientists1 for it can give no evidence of heat4 ,an astronomer standing on the moon and examining our gorgeous1 glowing1 crimson sunsets or aurora through a spectroscope would declare our earth was a blazing ball of fire4 ,it would seem so to him1 and he would have just as strong evidence as our astronomers have that the sun is hot or a ball of fire4 ,our astronomers look at the brilliant colors of the sun's aurora and make the same mistake4 ,all the astronomers admit the truth of ,prof4 ,proctor's statement--that the heat-giving power of a star is not proportional to the amount of light it emits4 ,i ask why8 ,and the answer is very plain3 ,because the stars and suns have no excessive heat and never had4 ,recent facts prove the sun is not hot4 ,prof4 ,c4 ,g4 ,abbott of the ,smithsonian ,institute1 in his observations on the sun's eclipse on ,may #bhth1 #aijj1 says in his report3 ,my experiments showed the corona of the sun was actually cooler than the gray card which had been used at the room temperature4 ,what our astronomers have taken for fire and evidences of heat is the rich and glowing rainbow colors of the outer atmosphere of the sun1 produced by infinitesimal atoms of the different metals and substances of the sun floating in solution in its brilliant aurora1 just as the elements of the earth float in solution in our gorgeous sunsets4 ,the sun having a larger surplus of electricity than the earth is thereby enabled to extend its vast aurora from the equator to the poles1 and this gives continuous1 varied and beautiful light1 with no darkness to its celestial inhabitants4 ,but the earth1 lacking a sufficient surplus of electricity to extend its aurora from the equator to the poles1 must content itself by displaying its brilliant light and beauty near its poles1 only occasionally extending it half way to the equator4 ,the fact that the earth creates its own aurora shows it manufactures its own light4 ,every flash of lightning in our midnight sky1 every blazing meteor in our atmosphere1 prove the earth and planets evolve their own light and heat4 ,i agree with ,prof4 ,proctor1 when he says3 ,i adopt the principle of ,sir ,william ,herschell that analogy is the chief and the best guide for the student of astronomy4 ,general resemblance of structure indicates a general resemblance in the purpose which the celestial bodies are intended to subserve4 ,and ,i contend that all or nearly all suns and planets are alike in structure and in substance1 and are vast inhabited worlds1 governed by the same laws1 controlled by the same electric energy1 and possessing varied types of vegetable1 animal and intellectual creations similar to our earth4 ,it is a universal law of nature that wherever great electric power is conferred there are creations and results commensurate with that power4 ,prof4 ,garrett ,p4 ,serviss1 in the ,new ,york ,journal1 ,july #bdth1 #aija1 predicted we would have four years of excessive heat on account of the dark spots on the sun1 and many other scientists agreed with him4 ,he said3 ,the earth is a satellite of a variable star4 ,the source of terrible heat is directly in the sun and due to an extraordinary increase in its effective radiation4 ,the periodic sunspot has thrown open the furnace door and sent forth the destroying blast which will continue for four years4 ,i undertook to answer him and contended that the sun is not variable in its heating power1 and furnishes no more heating power to the earth at one time than another4 ,that there is no increase in its effective radiation4 ,that the sun does not furnish heat to the earth at all1 and is not a thermal or heating engine as claimed by the scientists1 but is an electric generator like the earth and does not need to be hot4 ,that the sun furnishes the electric power and the earth heats itself4 ,in other words1 the sun furnishes powerful currents of electricity which come in contact with the earth's opposite electricity and the resistance of its atmosphere1 and which are converted into light1 heat and vital force down near the earth's surface4 ,the electric power furnished by the sun does not vary1 but is measured by the attracting power of the earth as a vast magnet4 ,therefore all excess of heat is due to local causes and the uneven distribution of the sun's electric current on the earth's surface4 ,this unequal distribution of sun currents1 causing excessive heat in the west1 was produced by light rainfall during the previous year1 and the harvesting of large areas in ,kansas1 ,missouri and adjacent territories1 thus exposing a dry soil and preventing the accumulation of moisture necessary to form clouds4 ,the succeeding summers justified my position and refuted the predictions of the learned professor and other scientists4 ,in mentioning these things ,i mean no disparagement to ,prof4 ,serviss1 whom ,i hold in high esteem1 and only find fault with the old traditions which he upholds4 ,i am a friend to all scientists and regard them as earnest workers seeking the truth4 ,but they follow accepted and antiquated authority too closely1 and thus the blind lead the blind4 ,they are too often one-sided and impracticable4 ,men who study apes and beetles or atoms and gases all their lives are no judges of angel's faces or of the scope and design of the universe4 ,prof4 ,proctor's testimony that nine-tenths of the astronomers employ their powers in making observations at great pains and labor which are not worth the paper on which they are recorded1 is a plain statement of their tendency to be cranky and impracticable4 ,some are so one-sided they think mathematics is everything4 ,mathematics in its place1 like the miser1 is good to count gains after they are acquired2 but had man relied on mathematics he would have remained as ignorant of the fundamental truths of the universe as the ,blackfoot ,indians4 ,newton owed none of his discoveries to mathematics4 ,when his constructive imagination formulated a theory he tried to bolster it up with mathematics4 ,but it generally proved as delusive as did his calculation that the sun was #a1ffi1cjj degrees hot4 ,the great boast of the mathematicians is that ,le ,verrier calculated where ,neptune was before it was discovered by ,galle at ,berlin1 but the fact is he missed it eight astronomical units or over seven hundred millions of miles1 and said ,neptune was not the planet he was looking for4 ,these are two average tests of mathematical calculations1 and they are on a par with the mis-calculations of how much the sun must burn up annually under the so-called laws of gravity to supply the necessary heat to the earth and planets4 ,imagination--constructive ideality--is the highest gift of ,deity to man1 and the only faculty that can reason from the known to the unknown and comprehend the wonders and grandeur of the universe4 ,i am not a practical chemist seeking the mysteries of nature in the laboratory1 nor a professional scientist exploring the fields of original research2 but1 like ,la ,place1 ,comte1 ,herbert ,spencer and others1 ,i formulate my theories and scientific hypotheses from the latest and best established facts of science as ,i see it4 ,science is only unified or systematic knowledge4 ,every fact is a scientific fact1 and every truth is a scientific truth whether it pertains to so-called science or to religion or philosophy4 ,nature has no subdivisions of science1 religion or philosophy1 nor astronomy1 chemistry or geology2 but all things are a unity1 constituting one harmonious universe2 and he who separates science from religion or either from philosophy goes contrary to nature and divides the universe into fractions4 ,as ,i am not a member of any scientific or religious association1 ,i have no prejudices to overcome and seek the truth only1 without fear1 favor or undue predilections4 ,old traditions1 fossilized theories and antiquated authority have little weight in my mind by the side of recent facts4 ,but ,i am not an iconoclast1 for ,i am more anxious to build up than to tear down4 ,the professional scientists may deem such students of nature as myself who trespass upon their chosen domain as amateurs4 ,if so1 it is a proud distinction4 ,amateurs have accomplished nearly all the great things in the world's history4 ,cromwell was a farmer1 ,hastings and ,clive were clerks1 ,bismarck twice failed in his examination to become a lawyer1 ,washington was a surveyor and ,franklin a printer1 ,herschell was a musician1 ,faraday a bookbinder1 ,scott a lawyer's clerk1 ,arkwright1 the inventor of the spinning machine1 was a barber2 ,spinoza a glass-blower1 ,herbert ,spencer an engineer1 ,edison a newsboy1 and ,stephenson1 the inventor of the locomotive1 an ordinary workman2 ,lincoln was a railsplitter1 ,grant a tanner1 ,andrew ,johnson a tailor1 ,andrew ,jackson a saddler1 ,vanderbilt a ferryman1 ,rothschild a peddler1 ,krupp a blacksmith1 ,paul a tent-maker1 and ,christ a carpenter4 ,the names of distinguished amateurs could be continued indefinitely1 but space forbids4 ,as ,i have discussed this question elsewhere and touched on it in other chapters1 extended discussion might cause repetition4 ,besides1 this volume is not intended for detail or abtruse minuti1 but for the statement of leading facts for the masses of intelligent people1 who abhor technical terms and dry details4 ,many people find scientific books so dry and unpalatable1 that1 like the weary listener to the dry1 dull sermon of the missionary1 who said3 ,if ,i were a cannibal from ,timbuctoo1 ,i would eat that missionary and his hymnbook too4 ,doubtless he thought the hymnbook would be excellent dessert after such a dry meal2 and some readers of scientific works find most any kind of dessert refreshing after partaking of the mental pabulum of dry statistics and technical terms to be found in many scientific works4 ,our ,american ,indian is never dull or unpoetic in his conception of the ,universe4 ,he sees ,god in the lightning1 hears ,him in the thunder2 and according to him the ,milky ,way is the ,path of souls leading to the villages in the sun4 ,along this pathway travel the spirits of the dead1 and the brighter stars are the campfires for the solitary journey to the land of the hereafter4 ,the ,japanese term the ,milky ,way the silver river of heaven4 ,and the ancient ,greeks considered the blue dome of the sky a crystal globe where dwelt the ,olympian gods4 ,no science should be dry1 and above all astronomy should lift us to empyrean heights where we may tread among the stars4 ,,chapter ,,viii ,,recent ,,electrical ,,discoveries ,,and ,,appliances1 ,,wireless ,,telegraphy1 ,,etc4 ,it is said facts are now being discovered and physical theories developed the ultimate result of which may be the explanation of the mysterious phenomena presented by the corona of the sun1 the tails of comets1 the aurora1 terrestrial magnetism and its variations1 nebulae and the zodiacal light4 ,first1 these facts are being established in connection with the pressure exerted by light which was pointed out by ,maxwell and deduced by him from his electro-magnetic theory of light1 which is1 that when a pencil of light impinges perpendicularly on an opaque object1 it produces a pressure on the surface of that object4 ,this pressure is determined by the condition that if the object were set in motion with the velocity of light and the force against it kept up1 the power to keep up the pressure would be equal to that carried by the ray of light4 ,second1 that particles smaller than atoms1 called corpuscles or ions1 are thrown off with high velocity from the intensely heated bodies4 ,the sun1 they claim1 being such a body1 it follows that such ions must be shot out from it4 ,on this theory it is held that the explanation of a comet's tail is simple4 ,the comet evaporates on the side next to the sun and1 there being no pressure to hinder its expansion1 it begins in flying off in all directions4 ,it condenses into very minute particles which1 by reason of the impulsion or pressure of the sun's rays1 are thrown in the opposite direction from the sun4 ,my explanation has been1 without all this detail1 that it was the same law of electric repulsion which drove the comet off and prevented it falling into the sun1 which also drove the comet's tail in an opposite direction from the sun4 ,this solution of the comet's tail does not solve the greater one of the repulsion of the comet itself4 ,the pressure of the electric ions or corpuscles might force the tail away1 but a greater electric force from the sun drives off the comet4 ,prof4 ,j4 ,j4 ,thomson and ,arrhenius1 a ,swedish physicist1 have by experiments discovered and elaborated the manner and principles on which the ions or corpuscles operate4 ,arrhenius discovered that these ions were conductors of electricity and why1 and ,prof4 ,thomson discovered each corpuscle had the same electric charge as an ion of hydrogen1 and that each must be smaller than a hydrogen atom--in fact only a thousandth part of it4 ,and here for the first time in the world's history science tells us there are bodies smaller than an atom--a thousand times smaller than an atom4 ,we are told an atom is a thousand times smaller than the particles of invisible air we breath2 now we have an ion a thousand times smaller than the atom4 ,surely the scientists have at last reached my theory of the fourth state of matter which ,i call the electro-magnetic4 ,in fact these ions or corpuscles may be electricity itself or the atoms of electricity which science has at last discovered4 ,and streams of these infinitesimal ions may constitute the swift and invisible currents of electricity which produce all natural phenomena4 ,prof4 ,blake1 of the ,kansas ,university1 says3 ,crookes called his cathode streams the fourth form of matter1 but first to-day is such a state proven4 ,now1 we must recognize at the beginning of this twentieth century a new form of matter4 ,we have to deal with negatively charged particles so small that they have free paths of motion even among the atoms of substances4 ,as electric currents have free paths of motion even among the atoms of matter1 these ions or corpuscles must be one form of electricity and must be both positive and negative1 though the negative ions attract the most attention4 ,i am glad to find science coming to my conclusions as to the fourth state of matter4 ,but instead of calling it electric ions1 electrons or ,thomson corpuscles1 it should be named electro-magnetic ether4 ,it may be that science has at last discovered what electricity is1 and that it consists of these infinitesimal corpuscles4 ,prof4 ,blake says3 ,these ions or corpuscles shatter into charged gases the molecules of gases and ionize the gases and make them conductors of electricity2 they raise gases to incandescence and make them light-giving sources2 they form nuclei about which matter will aggregate and condense2 they seem to explain some of the most stupendous and perplexing problems in cosmic physics--such as the cause of the sun's corona1 the spread of the comet's tail1 the source of the meteors1 the fantastic play of the auroras1 whence the electric displays of our atmosphere1 the after-glow of the setting sun1 and the why of the zodiacal light4 ,he says the corpuscles seem to be solving the big problems of the heavens1 and adds3 ,the corpuscles become luminous when impinged upon by electric waves2 and waves of light1 which are electro-magnetic disturbances1 must move them1 and light will be produced and be scattered in all directions as if reflected from minute particles of ordinary matter4 ,this may account for the glow of the nebulae1 and the zodiacal light4 ,these corpuscles1 being admitted into the moist air of our earth1 form nuclei of condensation and drops are formed2 and the growth of the high1 fleecy clouds finds its beginning around these corpuscles4 ,they also strike our equatorial region2 there they are influenced by the earth's magnetic forces and deflected towards the poles1 and near the poles they reach gases dense enough to become luminous by their impact and show the fantastic colorings of the aurora4 ,our atmosphere lies1 then1 like a great insulating sheet between conducting layers--the surface of the ocean and the upper air4 ,in the ether of this intermediate insulating region electric waves may be set up to be propagated as signals in straight lines in all directions4 ,when wireless telegraphy first reached out timidly into space1 we all said its currents would leave the earth's surface within a short distance1 for they went out from the earth's surface in straight lines2 but as they extended farther and farther they seemed to bend around the earth and to follow its curvature4 ,hertz1 who discovered the electric waves which ,marconi now so successfully uses in wireless telegraphy1 showed us in #ahhg that conductors reflected these waves1 and the ocean's surface sent them back when they impinged upon it4 ,now1 with upper air layers proven conductors1 the electric waves must be deflected from above as well and bent downward to follow the earth's curvature4 ,and thus electric signals1 silent but all pervading1 will before long circle our globe by their repeated deflections through this great speaking tube around the earth4 ,the mysterious negative corpuscles1 more minute than our smallest atoms1 thus are themselves the very basis of the practicability of wireless telegraphy1 our latest invention4 ,nay1 more1 may not these ions or corpuscles be atoms of electricity1 and1 being a thousand times smaller than atoms of matter1 impregnate them with positive and negative force8 ,inventors have been endeavoring to send messages over long distances without wires ever since the first tests were made in #ahif4 ,only recently ,marconi has succeeded in sending them across the ,atlantic1 two thousand miles through the air4 ,the distance to which messages may be transmitted and received depends on the amount of electric energy employed1 the frequency of oscillation in the radiating system1 the length of the electric waves emitted1 the height of the perpendicular wires from the ground1 the medium through which the waves are propagated1 the sensitiveness of the coherer or receiver1 and the precision with which the instruments are adjusted4 ,long electric waves are radiated to greater distances than shorter ones1 and much depends on the syntonic system1 or tuning of the instrument1 so as to communicate with any selected receiver to the exclusion of all others4 ,an electric generator supplies the source of electricity for operating an induction coil to transform the low pressure into an alternating current of high pressure4 ,this charges the wire suspended from a mast and the wire leading to the earth to a sufficient potential to cause the opposite charges of electricity to rush together1 thus forming a spark or disruptive discharge through a small air gap2 as a result high potential currents surge to and fro through the wires hundreds of thousands of times per second4 ,these high potential currents radiate electric waves which are propagated as light waves and spread out in every direction4 ,it is said the whole process of transmitting and receiving wireless messages is not unlike to the emission of light and its reception by the retina of the eye4 ,the reception of these waves is by means of a vertical wire similar to that used in transmitting1 the difference being the wires at the terminals are connected with metal filings inclosed in a small glass tube called the coherer instead of the spark gap4 ,the electric waves impinge on the elevated wire and are converted into electric oscillations1 which act on the filings1 and an auxiliary circuit registers the impulses on a ribbon of paper in readable ,morse dots and dashes4 ,the higher the vertical or mast wires and the greater the number of wires1 the greater the wave length and the farther the distance transmitted4 ,marconi in his first ,atlantic tests employed kites and balloons to carry the vertical wire so that long electric waves could be obtained4 ,since then he has carried his wires on high masts1 as at ,poldhu1 ,glace ,bay1 and ,wellfleet ,station4 ,the ,marconi companies have equipped six stations in the ,united ,states1 five in ,hawaii1 twenty in ,great ,britain1 one in ,belgium and one in ,france4 ,there are eighteen ocean steamers1 thirty-two ,british-men-of-war and several ,italian and ,american warships which have ,marconi installations4 ,marconi says3 ,there are thirty-five land stations1 twenty-one liners and eighty-five warships equipped with ,marconi apparatus4 ,land stations cost #a1jjj1 and ship equipment1 #gjj4 ,trans-,atlantic stations cost #ajj1jjj each4 ,wireless telegraphy is the most recent miracle of electricity1 and shows it to be the cosmic energy of the universe4 ,science stumbled upon it4 ,and in the same way1 ,sir ,wm4 ,crookes1 in a recent interview1 says3 ,science may some day stumble upon the soul4 ,men of science believe more than they can express1 spiritually as well as physically4 ,he will not prophesy1 but said with ominous import3 ,if you had come to me a hundred years ago do you think ,i should have dreamed of foretelling the telephone8 ,why1 even now ,i cannot understand it4 ,i use it every day1 but ,i don't understand it4 ,think of that little1 stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating not only sounds1 but words1 and with the most delicate and illusive inflections of tone which separate one human voice from another4 ,mr4 ,peter ,cooper ,hewitt1 says the ,electrical ,review1 has invented a new apparatus which it is said will make a revolution in the method of sending wireless telegraph messages4 ,the device consists of a glass globe about ten inches in diameter1 having two tubes containing mercury sealed in the bottom of the vessel4 ,this apparatus acts1 as a powerful and effective interrupter and takes the place of the spark gap now used in discharging the condensers for setting up electrical waves4 ,it enables powerful1 rapid and continuous oscillations to be set up in the antenna1 or sending mast1 used in transmitting wireless messages1 and not only enables messages to be sent over very great distances with ease1 but permits secrecy to be maintained1 which heretofore has been impossible4 ,the operation of this device depends upon two new phenomena in physics which ,mr4 ,hewitt has discovered in the course of his researches4 ,the first is the resistance of the mercury in the apparatus to a passage of current until a high potential has been applied2 the second is the disappearance of this resistance after this high voltage has been reached4 ,the effect of these two phenomena is to permit a condenser to be charged to a high potential and then1 by the disappearance of the resistance of the interrupter1 to discharge it very rapidly4 ,the result of this action is to set up violent and rapid current impulses in the circuit containing the condenser1 and thence in the sending wire4 ,the current impulse1 being very powerful1 will enable messages to be sent to great distances1 and as the number of oscillations per second can be controlled1 this permits of selective signaling4 ,the number of impulses can be made very high--above a million a second4 ,the device is inexpensive and durable4 ,it is considered a great contribution to wireless telegraphy and establishes it on a commercial basis1 and selective signaling is solved and trans-,atlantic transmission will be easy4 ,radium is a rare metal recently discovered1 having remarkable qualities and very difficult to obtain4 ,it is a constituent of pitchblende1 which is found in many places1 but only in a small way4 ,so far all that has been procured has come from a mine in ,cornwall4 ,a ton of pitchblende carries about #ae grains of radium and it is very difficult to extract4 ,a grain is estimated to be worth #bjj1jjj and a kilogram is worth about #b1jjj1jjj4 ,there is only about one pound of radium in the world4 ,it is estimated to be worth #a1jjj1jjj4 ,radium was discovered by ,m4 and ,mme4 ,curie1 in ,france1 after they had familiarized themselves with the remarkable properties of uranium and polonium4 ,radium has many curious and inexplicable qualities4 ,it continually emits heat and light without combustion1 without chemical changes of any kind1 and without any change in its bulk1 appearance or molecular structure1 which remains identical after many months4 ,it is so powerful in the energy it constantly hurls forth as to entail many dangers in handling it4 ,sir ,wm4 ,crookes says in describing it3 ,probably if half a kilogram were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all4 ,it would most certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent we could not survive4 ,the smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister it would take months to heal4 ,it also emits electrons with a velocity so great that ,prof4 ,crookes estimates one gram is enough to lift the whole of the ,british navy to the top of ,ben ,nevis1 and ,i am not quite certain that we could not throw in the ,french fleet as well4 ,it has such surprising properties that ,lord ,kelvin was moved to say of it that1 it threatens to overthrow the correlation of forces1 which is the rock-ribbed1 foundation postulate of science4 ,it seems already to have unsettled the accepted theory of light1 and after the experiments of the ,russian scientists who are now investigating it1 ,profs4 ,mendelief1 ,yigooff and ,borgruan1 the result may give us new scientific theories and a new nomenclature4 ,radium tends to confirm my electric theory of creation1 it also seems to aid the ,thomson corpuscles hypothesis1 and will open the way to new and important discoveries4 ,my opinion from very brief thought on the subject is that radium is in its nature a form of electric energy solidified1 and may be a bundle of ,thomson corpuscles or electrons combined and solidified by some process not yet understood4 ,it is in the nature of an electric dynamo1 and draws its constant supply of electricity from the air4 ,it is plain that it is an electric substance and manifestation1 for1 as ,prof4 ,crookes says1 it emits electrons with a velocity so great one gram would lift the ,british navy to the top of a mountain1 and he is even willing to throw in the ,french fleet4 ,if he were not a great scientist1 ,i should say he was exaggerating like an amateur4 ,radium is at present a great scientific puzzle4 ,it seems to destroy the present theory of light and the conservation of energy and the so-called attraction of gravitation by reason of its marvelous energy and wonderful qualities4 ,but ,i stand with the scientists on the doctrine of the conservation of energy and the correlation of forces1 and do not believe radium seriously threatens it1 though ,lord ,kelvin had much reason to say so2 and it is a puzzle yet unsolved as to how it maintains its energy without diminution of its force and bulk4 ,i see but one explanation1 and that is1 that it renews itself constantly by drawing electric energy from the air1 as a battery or dynamo draws it1 and thus retains its marvelous power unimpaired4 ,i hold that energy1 like matter1 is a substance and can neither be created nor destroyed4 ,it is impossible to create a molecule out of nothing or to reduce a single particle of energy to nothing4 ,energy1 like matter1 can be changed from one form to another or from one place to another1 but all matter is one matter in its elemental form1 and all energy is from one original energy1 which ,i hold to be electricity4 ,all matter is the aggregate manifestations of the invisible atom1 and all energy is the varied manifestations of the one ultimate and only force in nature--electricity4 ,the transformation of energy1 such as falling water1 expanding steam1 heat1 light1 vital force1 and so-called gravitation1 are all from the same electric elemental force1 and this energy is without increase or decrease and is known as the conservation of energy4 ,the definition given of electricity by ,atkins in his work on electricity1 which says1 it is a molecular mode of motion1 is an absurdity1 for motion is an effect produced by a cause1 and all motion is caused by electric energy4 ,and the mode of motion is simply the manner in which the law of electro-magnetism operates4 ,thus there may be an electric law yet undiscovered by which a substance like radium may draw electric energy from the air and keep its force and bulk unimpaired for many months1 or perpetually4 ,but radium raises many other questions affecting the nature of light and heat1 such as how such great heat and light can be condensed into so small a compass and evolved with such wonderful power4 ,prospecting for valuable metals by electricity has been recently introduced in ,wales with remarkable success4 ,in the ,cwnystwyth mines in ,cornwall new and valuable deposits of ore and blende were located4 ,these mines have been worked for over fifteen hundred years1 and much of this time the search for additional lodes has been going on2 yet this electrical device accomplished in a few hours what fifteen centuries of search failed to discover4 ,by the electric method of prospecting a current of high potential--#cj1jjj volts or more--is employed to energize a piece of ground supposed to contain mineral4 ,the current is taken from the terminals of the generating coil to metal rods or electrodes which are pushed an inch or two into the earth4 ,from these distributers the lines of force spread out in both vertical and horizontal planes and may be made to extend over an area of several miles4 ,their presence is detected by means of a delicate telephonic receiver connected with a second pair of metallic rods1 which are stuck into the earth in any desired position4 ,when the receiver is silent or gives only faint sounds1 it indicates that the lines of force are deflected from their normal course4 ,this reveals the presence of metallic masses in the earth1 and1 by moving the electrodes about1 the position and area of an ore deposit may be determined with considerable accuracy4 ,in new and unknown ground the operator would place his distributing electrodes about #bjj yards apart1 and remove his receiving instrument to a distance of half a mile or more4 ,if his general knowledge of geological formation led him to believe that the metallic veins1 if there were any1 would run generally north and south1 he would place his electrodes east and west1 and if he found the electrical distribution normal he might conclude that the ground contained no mineral4 ,this remarkable electrical system for detecting the mineral deposits beneath the surface of the earth will doubtless be tested and perfected until man will be able without digging into the earth to ascertain the mineral deposits at any point beneath its surface4 ,it may not always determine if they may be profitably worked1 but in many mining regions it will be a blessing1 and save much unprofitable work and sad disappointment4 ,electrically heated cooking and laundry apparatus is now used in ,germany and other countries4 ,and there are farms on large ,german estates which are run by electricity4 ,the ,guednau farm in ,eastern ,prussia consists of #dej acres1 and its dairy handles one thousand gallons of milk daily4 ,it is lighted by electricity1 has an electrical churn and feed-cutting machine1 water-pumping apparatus1 incandescent lamps1 threshing and grist mills1 saw mill1 automatic plough and electrical agricultural machines1 all run by charged batteries and a fifty-horse power stationery engine moving two dynamos4 ,thus farming is made attractive and free from drudgery1 and is run like a machine by the electric current4 ,electricity is used not only to run some farms1 but also to hasten and increase the growth of farm products by running wires a few inches beneath the surface to energize the soil4 ,the ,commercial ,cable ,company announce that their ocean cable connections will be complete with ,manila1 in the ,philippines1 by the #dth of ,july of this year1 #aijc1 and that on that day they will telegraph around the world in forty seconds4 ,what a miracle of wonders6 ,fifty years ago the speediest communication from point to point was by swift horsemen making fifty miles a day4 ,now the round earth's antipodes is only forty seconds apart by reason of electric appliances4 ,so wonderful has been the growth of electrical appliances and utilities that ,prof4 ,h4 ,b4 ,shaw1 of the ,missouri ,university1 in a recent lecture1 said3 ,in twenty years the electric light industry has developed from nothing to the manufacture of over #ajj1jjj incandescent lamps per day4 ,ninety-five per cent4 of the street railways in this country are electrically operated4 ,yet this industry was cradled in ,kansas ,city1 ,mo41 only about twenty years ago4 ,this was when ,i first had my attention drawn to electricity1 for ,i saw the building of that line on ,east ,fifth street1 in that city4 ,that and the lighting of the gas by an electric flash from a human body caused me to investigate electric phenomena and formulate the electric theory of creation4 ,prof4 ,shaw said3 ,the latest development in long distance power is in ,california1 where ten thousand horse power is transmitted two hundred miles from where it is generated with a loss of only ten per cent4 of power in the line4 ,ten thousand horse power is sufficient to raise a million tons two inches per minute4 ,what a miracle that such power can pass along a wire no larger than a child's finger1 and exert such force two hundred miles from where it is generated6 ,nothing but the invisible creative cosmic force of the universe could accomplish such a seeming miracle4 ,but some scientists are so irrational as to say this force is merely the pressure1 twist or whirl of the ether1 when it is plain that if the ether were as rigid as steel it could not exert such force and power4 ,and as to it being a derivative force derived from the coal1 wood or sun1 it is plain it is the same force and the original1 ultimate1 creating evolving and only force in the physical universe4 ,there has been much labor and money expended in endeavoring to perfect a balloon or airship1 which would be safe and could be directed through the air at will in any course desired4 ,electricity has been used as the steering power and aluminum1 because of its light weight1 for the frame-work4 ,the ,french especially have given great attention to what they call the dirigible balloon1 but no great amount of success has been achieved and1 in my opinion1 never will4 ,in the very nature of things1 no safe airship can ever be built4 ,it was not intended that man should travel or carry burdens through the upper regions of the air4 ,first1 because the law of the earth's electric attraction forbids it4 ,second1 because the sudden and powerful wind and electric currents that pervade the upper regions of the atmosphere are sure to bring ruin and death1 sooner or later1 and no human power can prevent it4 ,the balloon or airship is only a dangerous toy which can be useful perhaps in times of war to spy out the enemy1 but utterly useless otherwise1 and which means death in a very short time to all who risk their lives in its treacherous power4 ,there have been two recent and striking examples of this in the case of the two distinguished experts in ,paris who thought they had built airships that could overcome the powers of nature1 and while proudly exhibiting them to their family and friends were hurled to a sudden and fearful death4 ,the many deaths and narrow escapes from these useless and dangerous toys make it almost certain that no sane man would risk his life in one of them1 though there were a thousand at his command free of expense4 ,of all the useless follies on which inventive genius and money have been expended1 the airship is the worst1 because if millions of the most perfect ones the imagination of man can conceive were built and offered free1 no prudent man would risk his life or his goods in their treacherous care4 ,the powers of nature1 and what the ancients called the demons of the air1 forbid that the airship should ever be anything more than a dangerous toy for reckless persons1 who wish to jeopardize their lives4 ,great efforts have been made1 much money expended and many lives lost in futile attempts to find the ,north ,pole1 which when discovered may appear like any other ice field1 mountain glacier1 or snowdrift of the ,arctic ,circle4 ,but the thirst for knowledge and the love of adventure and exploration where no financial reward can be expected is creditable to humanity1 and shows that the love of knowledge is sometimes above that of sordid gain4 ,the struggle for two centuries has been to reach the ,north ,pole1 and it has been approached as near as #gjj miles2 but recent reports indicate that conditions are more favorable for reaching the ,south ,pole2 and a ,french expedition outfitted this year for the ,north ,pole have changed their destination to the ,south ,pole4 ,one or both poles are likely to be discovered in a few years4 ,there have been many scientific expeditions to various parts of our globe for astronomical observations4 ,one recently sent to ,chili from the ,lick ,observatory should command especial interest since its object is by the study of the southern stars to ascertain where the earth and the solar system is going4 ,we know our sun system is moving swiftly towards the north1 in the direction of the stars ,vega or ,alpha ,lyra1 at the rate of more than forty-three thousand miles an hour4 ,each year we are more than three hundred million miles nearer these stars1 unless they also are in motion in the same direction4 ,the southern stars have been studied much less than the northern stars1 and the testimony of both is desired to determine the direction of the mysterious voyage of the sun and its family of worlds through the unexplored regions of space4 ,we have been watching the stars in front of us for many years1 and will now give some attention to the stars in our rear to confirm or disprove many astronomical hypotheses4 ,it is like getting back to anti-,copernican times to have ,dr4 ,alfred ,russell ,wallace1 in his flights of speculative astronomy1 say that1 our solar system is central in the universe and that this earth of ours is probably the only planet on which humanity has been developed4 ,in a recent article he undertakes to establish this ancient fallacy4 ,it is very doubtful whether the universe has a general center1 but if it has it should be plain to our learned astronomer that as our system is moving through space in a straight line at the rate of #dbj1jjj miles per day it could not occupy a central position very long4 ,the only means we have to judge of the inhabitability of other worlds is by analogy1 which is the foundation of all scientific hypotheses4 ,the likeness in form1 substance and electric power of suns and planets to our own world leads to the natural conclusion that all suns and worlds are inhabitated4 ,in fact any other assumption is contrary to all cosmological reasoning and all analogy to be found in universal nature4 ,nature nowhere bestows vast substance and power without commensurate results of life and growth1 and it is reversing all the laws of reason1 analogy and cosmic experience to hold to the contrary4 ,we must give up this egotistic assumption that our little world is the only living world in this vast universe1 or that it is only one of a few living worlds4 ,there are no dead worlds or planets or burning suns in this electric universe1 and we are not the only pebble on the boundless beach of creative worlds4 ,we have the same electric fire in our bodies that is in the sun1 and it neither burns us nor causes us to shrink up annually1 as the scientists say the sun does4 ,it is not the consumer of life1 but the giver of life1 and the continual life energy of the universe4 ,during a recent eclipse of the moon1 ,prof4 ,w4 ,h4 ,pickering1 of ,harvard ,observatory1 ascertained that the bright spot around the crater ,linne on the surface of the moon grows considerably larger when deprived of the heat of the sun4 ,for many years it has been noticed that the ,linne area has been gradually changing and many theories regarding the causes have been advanced4 ,prof4 ,pickering is inclined to the belief that it is hoar frost or ice4 ,this tends to confirm my theory that the moon has an atmosphere and some moisture which is mostly hidden in its perforated volcanic surface4 ,alexander ,young1 an astronomer of ,laport1 ,ind41 announced on ,february #bjth1 #aijc1 that1 from observations made by him1 he is confident that the sun is inhabited2 that with his instruments he has seen on the sun's surface mountain sides with great and precipitous rocks which glow with prismatic colors1 mingled with the greenness of perennial vegetation4 ,i was not expecting this scientific proof so soon1 but ,i am satisfied that the inhabitants1 the mountains and the perennial vegetation are there2 and if he has succeeded in magnifying the rays of light from the vast openings in the sun's photosphere sufficiently he can and did see them4 ,i am a firm believer in the inhabitability of the sun1 and that it is a perfected1 self-luminous world--a world like our world1 only vastly larger and more prolific in life and power4 ,as it is the source of all life and power to the planets1 it must be the creator of all life to its celestial inhabitants4 ,profs4 ,proctor and ,herschell seem to believe that most of the heavenly bodies are inhabited4 ,sir ,wm4 ,herschell went so far as to contend for a time that the sun was inhabited or inhabitable because1 he said1 the heat of the sun was in its photosphere1 which was far out in space and many miles from the sun's surface1 and that there were cool clouds and layers of atmosphere1 he thought1 between the heat and the sun's surface which made the body of the sun cool enough for animal and vegetable life and human habitation4 ,he changed his mind1 however1 in a few years and held the heat of the sun was too hot to allow anything in nature to keep such excessive heat from its surface1 and besides1 the law of the conservation of forces just coming into scientific prominence then forbid it4 ,prof4 ,proctor1 says3 ,i adopt the principle of ,sir ,wm4 ,herschell that analogy is the chief and the best guide for the student of astronomy4 ,that general resemblance of structure indicates a general resemblance in the purpose which the celestial bodies are intended to subserve is evident when we compare the stars with our sun or with each other4 ,some time or other those worlds have been or will be the abode of intelligent creatures seems to be a fair conclusion from what we know of their structure4 ,deity does no irrational things1 nature is always logical and consistent1 and where there is such vast resources of substance and power bestowed1 as in our sun and the eighteen millions of suns of the universe1 it was not for the purpose of making bonfires and blazing furnaces of them4 ,but they were created for vaster1 more perfect theatres of intelligent life and activities4 ,besides1 burning them up could bestow no benefit on the planets2 the heat could not reach them1 and if it could it is only a sensation1 and sensation cannot produce vegetable or animal life1 or control the earth's motion4 ,one of the greatest of modern discoveries is that heat is not a substance but a sensation1 produced by electric currents4 ,so that eighteen millions to one hundred millions of suns do not need to be burning up to furnish electric currents to their planetary worlds4 ,and our sun is not burning up thirty quintillions cubic feet of itself annually1 and a hundred millions of suns many a thousand times larger than ours are not burning up a thousand times more of themselves1 as the astronomers claim1 and the whole thing is a great absurdity and superstition4 ,,chapter ,,ix ,,at ,,present ,,science ,,is ,,in ,a ,,dubious ,,and ,,chaotic ,,condition ,the last few years have been remarkable for the diligence with which scientists have scrutinized every phenomena of nature1 and the abundance of new facts which have rewarded their researches4 ,they have also been remarkable for the changes in scientific opinions1 which usually are so gradual as to be imperceptible1 but which have recently taken on the speed of the earth's solar revolution in their transition from the old to new theories4 ,the vast body of scientists are seldom a unit in the acceptance of any theory1 even of the most fundamental nature4 ,and where there is such diversity of belief each student of nature is entitled to form his own opinions and beliefs4 ,but the most pitiable and unfortunate of the one-sided scientists are those who would banish logic from the realms of physics1 and who regard a deduction or a theory as an enemy of science2 who heap scorn on analytic reason--the highest gift of ,deity to man--and who deem the tabulation of dry facts without causes the only purpose of science4 ,who want science fenced in with a stone wall and separated from religion and philosophy1 and the earth cut up into sections and labelled astronomy1 chemistry1 geology1 and so on ad infinitum2 as if nature knew anything about astronomy1 chemistry or geology1 or ever considered anything but the unity and harmony of the whole universe1 which includes science1 religion and philosophy1 one and inseparable1 as ,god and nature are inseparable4 ,mr4 ,cope ,whitehouse1 a ,new ,york scientist1 says of present science3 ,the only fact established beyond doubt regarding suns and planets is their revolution on their axes1 and this is all that is needed to generate light and heat4 ,they are arc dynamos1 and each in turn transmits what it receives to its neighbor on the circuit4 ,this is well stated and shows that nine-tenths of the accepted facts and theories of science are mere guesswork1 founded upon conjectures of some eminent scientist who was accepted as authority a hundred years ago4 ,and the standard scientific works have propagated them as scientific facts4 ,it is a fact apparent to all well informed students that astronomy1 physics and chemistry at present are in a chaotic condition--that nearly all the scientific facts and theories established for two hundred years are now in a state of uncertainty and are virtually overthrown by recent discoveries4 ,the recent discovery of radium seems to overturn the rock-ribbed scientific theory of the conservation of energy1 and raises many new questions in regard to the nature of light and heat4 ,lord ,kelvin1 recognized as the highest authority1 says3 ,it threatens to overthrow the doctrine of the correlation of forces4 ,if the scientists would accept the electric theory of creation1 its explanation would not be so difficult1 for radium seems to be a bundle of electric ions or corpuscles which have the power of drawing electricity from the atmosphere1 like a miniature dynamo or a galvanic battery1 and thus continually renewing itself1 so that there is no loss of power and no shrinkage in size or bulk4 ,the scientists may soon be forced by radium and other natural phenomena to accept the electric theory--that electricity and not gravity is the one and only fundamental force in nature4 ,the recent discovery of the three lines in the spectrum of hydrogen1 discovered by ,prof4 ,pickering1 of ,harvard1 may upset the whole theory of the seventy-three elements set forth in our books of chemistry and said to constitute all the elements of the universe4 ,it may prove they are not elements1 or at least not primary elements at all1 and finally drive the scientists to my theory that there are only three primary elements in the universe1 and they are spirit1 electricity and matter4 ,that the so-called seventy-three elements are only different combinations of two of the original and primary elements--matter and electricity--and are what ,herschell said they looked to be--manufactured articles4 ,prof4 ,pickering was the first to analyze lightning with the spectroscope and show that hydrogen is a compound substance made up of lines belonging to at least three chemical elements4 ,this recent discovery was a great surprise to scientific men4 ,and it was confirmed and doubly proven by the spectrum in the new star1 in the constellation of ,perseus1 known as ,nova ,persei1 which also shows in the hydrogen there the same lines consisting of at least three chemical elements4 ,this is new proof by high authority that oxygen1 hydrogen and all the so-called elements are--as ,i have contended for many years--only compound substances1 and justifies ,prof4 ,serviss' statement in the ,new ,york ,journal1 that these facts may revolutionize science and reconstruct chemistry4 ,the marvelous increase in brilliancy of the star ,nova ,persei last year1 and its sudden shrinkage1 all within a few days1 and the same being observable almost instantaneously upon the earth1 when that star is #c1djj light years distance from the earth according to the accepted speed of light1 which is #ahf1jjj miles a second1 unsettles the whole question as to the speed of light4 ,it tends to prove that light is instantaneous1 as ,prof4 ,wright says gravitation is4 ,no less an authority than ,prof4 ,simon ,newcomb calls the scientific world's attention to this phenomena1 and shows it throws doubt on the long-accepted theory as to the speed with which light travels4 ,in his address before the ,astronomical ,society1 ,december #bith1 #aijb1 he says3 ,there is an inadequacy in the speed of light to explain the phenomena4 ,we are forced to the conclusion that there exists in the universe a cause susceptible of transmission with a speed many times that of light4 ,what cause exceeds the speed of light1 which is deemed the swiftest thing in the universe8 ,we know of none4 ,what was it surprised the scientists and came to us with many times the supposed speed of light8 ,it was light1 only light4 ,then this inadequacy in the speed of light came on double-quick time1 and proves that light can travel many times faster than the scientists for two hundred years have declared it could4 ,and this eminent scientist1 with cautious diplomacy1 does not directly attack the accepted speed of light1 but says there exists a cause that produces a greater speed than light4 ,but as only light came1 did the cause bring it or did it come with its own velocity8 ,if a cause or unknown force brought it1 then we have a new force in nature which the scientists must reckon with4 ,so they must accept the alternative and either change the speed of light or deal with a new and unknown force4 ,in addition to the above complications1 ,prof4 ,j4 ,j4 ,thomson1 discovered 7#aija71 the electric ions or corpuscles which is considered a new form of matter and force4 ,the discovery of these electric ions or corpuscles a thousand times smaller than atoms has produced utter confusion in the scientific world1 and outside of the electric theory of creation they can make no possible explanation of them4 ,the fact is1 the scientists are on an island of doubt1 in a sea of uncertainty1 scanning with telescope1 microscope and spectroscope the ocean of foggy knowledge and dubious assumed facts to find a port of safety4 ,their attempts to fix the specific gravity of the sun1 and the sun's burning up and shrinkage as its source of heat1 and the heat as the life of the planets2 their treatment of heat as an entity and substance1 when it is merely a sensation2 their reliance on the spectroscope to indicate heat in distant suns1 and their accepting gravity without a cause or an explanation1 show the blind for centuries have led the blind in extravagant guessing4 ,but since they have seen an electric battery and an arc light1 they should be ashamed to ever declare the sun is hotter than any terrestrial furnace1 or that it is hot at all4 ,the arc and incandescent lights are object lessons they ought to study1 for they will see almost an exact representation of how all light1 heat and vital force are created on suns and planets4 ,they will see two wires1 one positive and the other negative1 brought together or so near together that in order to complete their electric circuit they must pass through a little space of resisting air1 which is a non-conductor1 and then they burst into light and moderate heat4 ,in the same manner the positive and negative currents of electricity of the sun and earth1 without wires1 come together in our atmosphere1 which is near the earth's surface a dense resisting non-conductor1 and in order to complete the circuit they burst into light1 heat and vital force and give life and energy to all animal and vegetable organisms4 ,but the heat must be and is generally moderate1 as no vegetable or animal life can exist in excessive heat4 ,and as excessive heat means ruin and decay1 therefore no burning sun can furnish light or give life and growth to any planet4 ,prof4 ,simon ,newcomb1 the learned astronomer1 says3 ,the sun is not a solid body1 but must be liquid or gaseous1 at least at its surface4 ,he gives this singular reason1 therefore1 that the sun's rotation at the equator is completed in less time than at a distance on each side of the equator4 ,i question both the fact and the sufficiency of his reasoning on this point4 ,according to his own statement1 the sun revolves at its equator #d1jjj miles an hour1 or over a mile a second1 while it revolves very slowly near its poles and virtually is not in motion at all at its poles4 ,this rapid motion at the equator and slowness of motion near the centre of the sun is calculated to deceive the eye and make it think it completes its rotation at its equator in less time than at a distance from it1 looking down along the slope of the sun's vast circumference4 ,this is no evidence1 for we see only the moving clouds of light on the outer rim of the sun's atmosphere1 ten to twenty thousand miles or more from its surface1 and they seem to and do complete their rotation a short time sooner4 ,this they naturally should do4 ,how frail and uncertain is the argument based on such doubtful and assumed facts8 ,thus these wise astronomers claim from this slim1 unreliable evidence and the assumed excessive heat of the sun1 that the sun is not a solid body at its surface4 ,yet the same author rejects this same evidence--that ,jupiter is not a solid body--in the following language3 ,the difference in the time of ,jupiter's rotation at the equator and in middle latitudes is1 so far as we yet know1 about five minutes4 ,that is to say1 the equatorial regions rotate in nine hours and fifty minutes and those in middle latitudes in nine hours and fifty-five minutes1 a difference amounting to #bjj miles an hour1 a seemingly impossible difference were the surface liquid4 ,we cannot assume this to be the case without more observations than are yet recorded1 as no well defined law of rotation in different latitudes has yet been made out4 ,thus this learned astronomer will not assume for ,jupiter what he assumed for the sun1 and weakens and destroys in ,jupiter the very same arguments he used to prove the sun was not a solid body at its surface4 ,this same learned astronomer--and ,i mention him because he is high authority and has written the most recent work on astronomy--says that1 under the enormous pressure of the earth1 continually increasing to the center1 the matter composing the inner portion of the earth is compressed to the density of a metal4 ,if the earth were composed of a fluid or even of a substance which would bend no more than the hardest steel1 such a motion as that of the earth upon its axis would be impossible4 ,i accept this as a very reasonable conclusion1 and hold the same rule applies to the sun1 and that the sun's enormous pressure1 increasing to its center1 would compress its inner portion to the density of a metal2 and that the sun could not revolve upon its axis and retain its rigidity as it does unless its inner or central portion was as rigid as steel4 ,and this necessarily means that its surface is about as solid as that of our earth4 ,therefore the sun cannot be molten or liquid at its surface1 as the scientific guessers have prognosticated4 ,as they have guessed wrong about nine-tenths of the time1 this is one of the nine hundred bad guesses4 ,lord ,kelvin1 our wisest scientist1 a few years ago estimated that our earth1 only fifty miles below its surface1 was a molten mass of fiery metal4 ,now1 ,simon ,newcomb says it has the density of metal1 and is as hard as steel1 and ,i think ,lord ,kelvin has changed his opinion and will agree with him4 ,thus the hoary-headed superstition that the center of our earth was a molten mass is passing away1 and it will be the same as to the heat1 and molten condition of the sun--it will be relegated to the plutonian shades of ignorance and superstition4 ,because there were numerous volcanoes1 geysers and hot springs scattered over the crust of the earth and in some deep mines there were hot sections1 the scientists jumped at the conclusion that the inner portions of the earth were a molten1 fiery mass4 ,this was to accord with their false theory of a red-hot molten sun1 and their assertion that the earth had its inception as a fire mist1 and rolling ball of white-heated gases4 ,but the scientists have changed their theories rapidly in recent years4 ,they are just beginning to discover that there are zones of heat and cold beneath the earth's surface just as there are above its surface4 ,that there are electric currents of heat in volcanic regions and mineral and mining sections1 and none in others1 and even in the same mines there are warm and cold sections4 ,take the ,cornstalk mines in ,nevada4 ,a section #b1cjj feet below the surface is very warm1 while another section #a1bjj deeper--being #c1ejj feet below the surface--is very cool4 ,surely ,lord ,kelvin would now laugh at himself to think he made such a calculation of the heat of the earth and said it was a molten mass of fire fifty miles below its surface4 ,and he even said it was so hot seven miles down in the earth that water could only remain or exist in a state of vapor4 ,ye gods6 ,when so great a prophet makes such mistakes1 surely the little prophets that walk in his footsteps ought to go 'way back and sit down1 and cease talking about the heat of the sun4 ,they should quit telling us the ,beneficent ,creator is burning up #ah1jjj1jjj of his most magnificent and beautiful worlds to heat his little1 insignificant planets4 ,they estimate our sun burns up thirty quintillion cubic feet of itself annually1 and #ah1jjj1jjj of suns are doing the same1 making the equivalent of a world destroyed every year and a sun every decade4 ,these statements are so unreasonable and appalling they refute themselves4 ,i mean no disrespect for these learned but misguided scientists who have for two hundred years built all their theories on heat1 which ,langley now says truthfully is nothing but a sensation4 ,thus they built the universe on a sensation1 and to sustain the old traditions they want to keep it there4 ,they said the earth began in heat1 that it was a ball of fire a few miles below its surface1 and the suns were great flaming furnaces burning up with quenchless fire4 ,they made the ,great ,creator a fire demon and world destroyer4 ,if ,prof4 ,parker's testimony is to be relied on1 nine-tenths of them waste their time on useless calculations and data4 ,they have a wonderful faculty of putting the horse before the cart4 ,for example1 ,prof4 ,huston of ,princeton1 says4 ,electricity is being constantly produced during the phenomena of every day life4 ,it is produced by chemical action1 differences of temperature1 the motion of conductors and magnets and the various physical and chemical processes that occur during the life and growth of plants and animals4 ,now1 this is misleading1 because it states facts backward4 ,it is not true that electricity is being produced in the sense he uses it by these phenomena4 ,these phenomena are being produced by electricity4 ,they are the manifestations of electricity4 ,electricity is the cause2 they are the sequence or results1 and he should say electricity is manifested by these things4 ,the same author says3 ,the earth is to be considered as one huge magnet4 ,this is very true1 and as a great magnet does not need to be hot to generate electric life-giving energy1 no astronomer ought to look at an electric light or an electric battery without blushing that he ever called the sun hot4 ,electricity can be generated without burning coal or wood or the use of a furnace4 ,the turbine wheels that are turned by the waters of ,niagara ,falls1 without heat or furnace1 can generate a hundred thousand horse power4 ,the placing of two or three pieces of metal one above another with a moist substance between them will create a voltaic battery4 ,and mines of two or three kinds of metals or ores1 when clay or any soft substance between them become moist1 will create a battery that will tear up the earth for miles and produce a geyser or an earthquake4 ,prof4 ,proctor agrees with ,langley in rejecting the nebular hypothesis1 when he says3 ,under the continual rain of meteoric matter the earth1 sun and planets are growing4 ,and the formation of the solar system resulted from the aggregations of vast meteoric and cometic systems rotating through space has greater support from what is now going on1 and is far more satisfactory than the nebular hypothesis of ,la ,place4 ,the nebular hypothesis affords no explanation of the strange variety of size in the planetary system1 variations of inclination among the planets1 or the retrograde and almost perpendicular motion of the satellites of ,uranus and ,neptune4 ,a general explanation of all these matters is at once suggested by their origin from aggregations of meteoric systems4 ,this agrees with the electric theory of creation4 ,all the ,newton-,la ,place theories of gravitation and the nebular hypothesis are now called in question by our wisest astronomers4 ,and one of them has pointed out two hundred instances in which gravitation is set aside and ignored in the motion of the heavenly bodies4 ,such instances as the runaway stars1 the retrograde motion of satellites1 the repulsion of comets from the sun1 and so on ad infinitum4 ,and as to the outer planets1 ,uranus1 ,neptune1 ,jupiter and ,saturn1 being older than the inner planets and being thrown off first from the vast whirling sun nebula of ,la ,place's imagination1 all modern astronomers either call it in question or reject it1 as a fallacy disproved by more recent facts and discoveries4 ,it is reasonable to suppose that there are zones of electric energy in space in each solar system which may help to hold and keep each planet in its orbit1 just as there are belts and currents of electricity in the atmosphere and outer crusts of earth and planets4 ,and the sun may send a different kind of electricity to each planet and receive a different kind from each planet4 ,abb ,moreau1 the noted ,french astronomer1 in supporting ,col4 du ,ligondes1 who opposes the ,la ,place theory of the formation of the solar system1 in a recent article1 ,april1 #aijb1 undertakes to show that ,mars is not older than the earth1 as held by the ,la ,place nebular theory1 but on the contrary is much younger4 ,his arguments entirely demolish the nebular theory that the outer planets were thrown off in successive rings of nebula from the sun1 and therefore the outer planets are the older4 ,in addition1 ,flammarion seems to take the same position1 for he says3 ,in ,mars two moons revolve rapidly in the heavens in opposite directions1 which seems to refute the nebular hypothesis4 ,these all tend to support my electrical theories1 and relegate the ,newton-,la ,place theories to the shades of obsolete fancy and mistaken conjecture4 ,flammarion also says3 ,the earth in its orbit describes a spiral1 and since its creation has never passed twice through the same point in space4 ,this also supports my electrical theory of globular spheres and spiral motion in space to accord with the laws of electro-magnetic energy4 ,this spiral shape of the earth's orbit1 ,i contend1 and not the tilting of its poles1 creates the changes of seasons4 ,its poles seem to tilt or change because the earth passes above and below the line of the ecliptic1 and in its spiral circuit has the sun above the earth part of the year1 when it is summer in the north temperate zone1 and below it part of the year when it is summer in the south temperate4 ,and the elliptical shape of the earth's orbit is1 ,i contend1 caused by the sun being in motion1 which lengthens the circle of the orbit in the direction the sun is traveling and causes the earth to be four million miles nearer it when it turns in front of it1 and the same distance farther from it when it turns in the same direction the sun is traveling4 ,it seems strange that no astronomers have thought of these things4 ,sir ,robert ,ball said recently3 ,the most important advance in astronomy was ,prof4 ,keeler's discovery of nebulae in such enormous numbers1 and the fact that most of them were in a spiral shape4 ,this spiral shape accords with the law of electro-magnetism and sustains the theory of electrical creation of suns and planets4 ,matter could not be gathered under any other law4 ,in addition to the contradictions and complications of science already mentioned1 scarcely a fundamental principle or concept remains4 ,one of the eternal indisputable postulates of science was that two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time4 ,but that is exploded1 and we know they do and we have proof of it every day4 ,there are numerous instances2 ,i will mention only one3 ,twenty-eight electric currents can pass over the same wire at the same time1 fourteen one way and fourteen the other1 and occupy the same space and do not interfere with one another4 ,scientists used to put great stress on solid matter1 and their primary division of matter was into solid1 liquid and gaseous4 ,they have recently discovered there is no such thing as solid matter4 ,what they termed solid matter is but the outer and visible shell of invisible forces4 ,that not a single atom of matter touches another atom of matter2 but there is a space between them1 and the atoms revolve around each other in very much the same way as the earth revolves around the sun1 thus showing that the laws of electro-magnetism are the same in atoms as in worlds4 ,the scientists only discovered the non-solidity of matter since the use of the ,x-rays1 and the ,crookes tube1 and they have been puzzled ever since to know what holds the atoms or molecules together in organized form4 ,they undertake to say it is gravity1 but gravity is weight1 and atoms have no weight1 and they are forced to look to electricity and magnetism to solve the question4 ,and the electric theory gives the only rational explanation1 which is1 that all things are held together by magnetic attraction or cohesion under the laws of organic affinity4 ,the molecules of iron1 stone and marble do not touch each other1 but their magnetic attraction is stronger than that of wood or hay2 that is why they have more solidity1 strength and endurance4 ,science said we could not look through a grindstone or any solid matter1 but we can4 ,we can look through men1 grindstones1 iron and brick walls1 and if we could turn on sufficient electric power we could look through the earth and take photographs of ,chinamen on the other side of the globe4 ,prof4 ,serviss1 in the ,new ,york ,journal of ,october #ast1 #aijb1 calls attention to the remarkable growth of speculation concerning electric or electro-magnetic influences exercised over the earth by the sun and planets1 and says3 ,they have been seized upon by astrological soothsayers to bolster up their pretended science4 ,as ,i have never taken any interest in astrology1 but have taken great interest in the electro-magnetic power of the sun1 ,i am surprised at the obtuseness that would undertake to blend them together when they have no scientific relation4 ,astrology undertakes to reveal the future by the position and influence of the stars1 and is entirely different from any electrical theory of the sun or planets4 ,he says1 ,the subject of the sun's electric influence is of absorbing interest1 but there is no solid scientific basis for a genuine theory4 ,from the lack of knowledge he displays of the well-known laws of electricity ,i am not surprised at his statement4 ,he says and illustrates it by a diagram3 ,if we grant the sun does act as a stupendous source of electro-magnetic waves1 as the planets circle about the sun in nearly a common plane1 and sometimes lie practically in the common plane in a straight line1 in such a contingency there may be a stream of electric energy linking them all together4 ,he seems to think this would produce confusion and settle the whole question4 ,he should know that the simplest law of electro-magnetism teaches that the electric attraction of every planet is the measure of its power in drawing the electric currents of the sun4 ,distance from or nearness to the sun or planets or their being scattered or all on the same plane or in a straight line has nothing to do with the supply of electric power from the sun4 ,each receives the positive electricity from the sun1 which it draws by reason of its negative polarity4 ,he should know that twenty-eight currents of electricity may pass over the same wire at the same time1 fourteen one way and fourteen the other way1 and do not interfere with one another1 and each go to their separate destinations4 ,the sun may send a different electric current or vibration to each planet and nothing in the universe could prevent it from reaching that planet4 ,it would pass through or go round any other planet or substance in its way4 ,wireless electricity is founded on the basic principle that an electric current goes only to the opposite electric polarity and vibration which draws and attracts it or is attuned to it4 ,prof4 ,serviss says3 ,if ,i examined this subject with a show of interest1 it draws upon me sour and suspicious looks from my scientific friends4 ,he should remember that all great truths have had to struggle with sour and suspicious looks1 ever since man began to investigate1 and that we must look not to authority for truth1 but to truth for authority4 ,he said1 in the summer of #aija1 the sun was a furnace and the black spots the open door of the furnace1 and we would have four years of torrid heat on account of those black spots2 but he proved himself a false prophet1 like the rest4 ,but he is not to blame2 he only followed the old traditions and scientific authority1 and they proved to be a broken reed on which he leaned4 ,i mention him because he is an able and recent writer on astronomy4 ,that science is at present unintelligible and almost chaotic to the masses of fairly educated people is too true for superfluous argument4 ,the old farmer's definition of bacilli is a fair sample of the nebulous condition of many minds on scientific subjects4 ,he said they were little critters from the back cellar that floated in the air1 called germs in ,germany1 parasites in ,paris1 and microbes in ,ireland4 ,many intelligent people deplore the prolific use of useless technical terms and dry statistics of most scientific works1 and their use makes them exclaim with ,portia1 ,my little body is aweary of this great world4 ,i find a very sensible editorial in the ,new ,york ,american of ,april #ahth1 #aijc1 entitled ,science ,needs ,another ,interpreter4 ,it says3 ,science is moving too fast for the ordinary layman1 who would like to keep pace with its theories and discoveries4444 ,chemistry and physics needs a man who will do for them what ,huxley did for biology--a man who has not only a scientific mind but a literary capacity4444 ,vaguely the layman knows there have been all sorts of discoveries since the ,x-rays showed him there was a way of seeing through a grindstone4 ,but he had the idea of ,x-rays only partially digested when science came on him with the cathode rays and crowned the confusion by discovering radium4 ,with a mind dazzled by light rays that are invisible1 and invisible rays that are not light1 and bewildered by being told of a substance that gives off terrific energy without loss of bulk or power1 he lays away the natural philosophy of his college days and reaches blindly for what the new men have written of these things4 ,he is then confronted with what reads like a catalogue of fossil insects diversified by stepladder algebraic formulas1 the mere parenthesis of which are enough to make a school teacher shudder4 ,the wretched seeker after knowledge is confronted with measurements of light waves until sunbeams are powerless to illuminate the day4 ,similarly he gathers from the fugitive words he understands among the mass that has no meaning for him1 that ,prof4 ,loeb has been putting salt on eggs and creating sea-urchins1 to the utter distraction of the rules of nature's game as he has learned them4 ,somewhere there must exist the man whose skill with the pen and whose appreciation of knowledge are equal to the task of acting as interpreter between scientists and the world4444 ,the world is hungrier for knowledge than it is for amusement1 and the sales of the books of the man who succeeds in making science readable will make the returns of even the most popular novelist small in comparison4 ,this splendid editorial states facts graphically and truly1 and portrays the real condition of things4 ,it shows a scientific chaos1 which portends a transition state1 and a rapid evolution from the old traditions to a new and more perfect science4 ,without meaning to be egotistic or to assume any superior knowledge1 or to have any of the qualities suggested in the editorial1 ,i am impelled to suggest that if there are persons befogged scientifically1 if they will read ,the ,cities of the ,sun1 ,i think their minds will be clarified on many points and many of the old scientific traditions will fade into the nothingness from which they came4 ,i am glad to welcome so able a champion of the electrical theory as ,mr4 ,cope ,whitehouse1 who achieved fame by discovering that the depression in the ,egyptian desert could be used for irrigation1 and which the ,english ,government is now utilizing4 ,this ,new ,york scientist says1 in an interview in the ,kansas ,city ,star of ,dec4 #b;d1 #aijb3 ,the ,english scientists have partially reduced our solar system to a machine1 and assigned to ,deity little less than the duty of squeezing heat from the sun or stoking it with aerolites4 ,such theories are made for sale and not for science4 ,when ,newton suggested that gravity might swing the moon as well as attract an apple to the ground1 he knew nothing of electricity4 ,he might have observed however1 that a comet never enters the sun and therefore could not have been attracted by it4 ,a comet1 as it closely approaches its supposed goal1 changes its direction and darts away1 tail foremost1 in a curved path due to a resistance too feeble to obstruct its passage4 ,no allowance is made for the attraction of gravitation in wireless telegraphy1 and the most superficial observations in ozology1 or the science of smell1 show that there is a force in odors which ignores gravitation4 ,we have reason for supposing that gravitation is a purely local affair1 and heat and light do not emanate from the sun4 ,heat comes from the earth1 and the light from the atmosphere1 precisely as the film in an incandescent lamp is heated by the resistance it offers to the electric current1 and light is produced by the vibration of the motes in the air4 ,the only fact established beyond doubt regarding the sun and planets is their revolution on their axes1 and this is all that is needed to generate light and heat4 ,they are arc dynamos and each in turn transmits what it receives to its neighbors on the circuit4 ,this accords with my theory published five years previously4 ,he continues3 ,we do not see the stars1 nor even the sun4 ,the astronomer who claims that his eye penetrates space billions1 trillions and decillions of miles stultifies himself in the next breath by declaring that worlds and solar systems are being formed of cosmic dust4 ,was the polestar ever obscured by the interposition of a world in formation8 ,yet the film formed by the breath of the observer on the eyepiece of a telescope would obscure ,jupiter4 ,evidently1 therefore1 we no more see a star than we see a distant power house that supplies electricity to trolley lines4 ,we only see the end of the stellar or solar ray where it enters the bubble of which the earth is the center4 ,it is strange that no astronomer has ever heretofore observed that the magnifying power of a lens1 two inches in diameter could have no appreciable effect on an object as remote as ,saturn4 ,yet the ring and the satellites of this planet are thus made visible4 ,in short1 there is a kind of screen which presents the image of stars1 as on a sheet between the observer and the magic lantern at an exhibition4 ,the image can be magnified but their distance is perhaps scarcely fifty inches4 ,in regard to the eruptions of ,mont ,pele he says3 ,within twenty miles of the earth there is a cold as intense as liquid air4 ,differences of temperature can be converted into an electric flash1 as electricity can be converted into heat4 ,the so-called eruption of ,mont ,pele was purely electrical4 ,the sympathetic eruption of ,la ,soufrire was partly due to an interrupted circuit and partly an induced current4 ,there was no flow of lava1 but can any one imagine the crater discharging what was said to have issued from it8444 ,when there is an accurate statement of facts it will be found that neither dust nor gas came from the volcano4 ,really1 only mud1 hot water1 smoke and stones were ejected4 ,this material descended as a thin covering of uniform thickness4 ,and this blanket was the dust precipitated by the electrical vibration still warm from crystallization4 ,had it been otherwise there would have been about one hundred million tons of frozen mud falling in the neighborhood4 ,what ,pre ,mary saw was the cloud of decomposed matter caused by the electric discharges4 ,it is as absurd to speak of all this coming out of the volcano as it would be to say that the smoke and stifling gases in a fire caused by an electric wire came from the power house4 ,as a fuse burned out in the circuit1 ,pele simply sparked4 ,it set fire to everything between its summit and the sea1 and the surface of the water itself was made warm4 ,now you see how mastodons are found1 with hair and flesh intact1 imbedded in ,siberian ice4 ,if the uprush of an air current would disturb the cold stratum above a chimney1 what would be the effect of the upheaval of a mountain mass with or without a volcano8 ,it is unnecessary to suppose that the axis of the earth has changed4 ,the ice crop of the ,antarctic is much larger than that of the ,north ,pole1 but the volcanoes of ,erebus and ,terror are in violent activity4 ,there are scores of terrestrial and celestial phenomena1 from the double tide to the cold moon1 that can be explained only by the electrical theory4 ,thus ,i could fill a book with the recent proofs and statements of scientists which sustain the electric theory4 ,the dropping of an icicle into a barrel of unslaked lime once caused a great disaster in one of our cities4 ,the slaking of the lime caused a fire4 ,the firemen came and the more water they used the greater was the heat generated1 until an explosion wrecked the neighborhood4 ,in like manner1 water in the fissures of the earth act chemically upon various minerals and produce similar results4 ,two or three layers of different metals in the earth produce a galvanic battery and results in the disaster of a volcanic explosion or an earthquake4 ,a silver dollar1 a twenty-dollar gold piece1 and a piece of copper of similar size1 placed one on top of the other1 with pieces of moist paper blotter between them1 will generate sufficient electricity to send a telegram4 ,two iron tablespoons tied together with a piece of copper wire and their ends dipped in water will generate an electric current sufficient to send a cablegram across the ,atlantic ,ocean4 ,so says ,prof4 ,trobridge of ,harvard4 ,if this is true1 what a fearful volcano or earthquake may be produced by water moistening the clay or substance between the thousands of acres of different mines or metals one above the other in the outer crust of the earth8 ,these things are marvelous to contemplate and paralyze the imagination4 ,,chapter ,x ,,electrical ,,creation ,,explains ,,natural ,,philosophy ,herbert ,spencer says3 ,science is partially unified knowledge2 philosophy is completely unified knowledge1 and the first knowledge obtained by primitive man was that of sense and inference from such experience4 ,later there arose a disposition to speculate as to that which lies beyond sense and known only by its effect on sensible things4 ,this speculative propensity is worthy of the highest consideration as a means of knowledge4 ,it has developed all of the numerous systems of philosophy which have flourished in the history of the human race4 ,first in the order of development comes the knowledge of things through the direct experience of physical sense1 then comes imagination1 reasoning1 theoretic science and speculative philosophy4 ,the object of all systems of philosophy is to comprehend and teach the truth about the world around us1 especially that part supposed to exist beyond the range of our senses1 and to prescribe what is right and good in the life of man4 ,in modern times the attempt to unite all the sciences into a general system has been made by ,august ,comte in ,france1 and ,herbert ,spencer in ,england4 ,according to ,comte1 it was time wasted and labor lost to attempt to explain the cause of gravity1 chemical affinity1 and electric and magnetic attraction and repulsion4 ,the atomic theory of the constitution of matter1 the conception of an interstellar ether1 the undulatory theory of light and heat were all cast aside as useless and unworthy of notice because they were not directly observable and the senses unaided could not apprehend them4 ,according to ,comte1 the only object of science and philosophy is to observe1 record and classify sensible phenomena4 ,what could not be observed by the senses could not be known and did not exist4 ,it is said the only open road to the advance of philosophy was thus forbidden by the man who made the first valuable contribution to its advancement4 ,herbert ,spencer first undertook the great task of discovering the unifying principle of nature4 ,he recognized all possible phenomena as parts of one great whole1 and held that all were united by natural law4 ,he differed from ,comte in that he recognized the imperceptible as a reality1 but made no attempt to explain it or to bring it into harmony with the phenomena of sense1 but designated it the unknowable4 ,he divided his system into two general divisions--the knowable1 which includes all things of sense1 experience1 and the unknowable1 which includes everything else1 or the invisible and imperceptible4 ,he held the knowable is the proper sphere of man's knowledge or philosophy1 and the unknowable the legitimate domain of ,god and religion4 ,and while he held that ,god and religion were imperceptible and unknowable1 he held they were none the less a truth of the highest degree of certainty4 ,it is therefore well said that all who fear the downfall of religion as a result of the encroachments of science or philosophy may thank ,herbert ,spencer for placing it where neither science or philosophy can touch it4 ,upon the law of relativity he places the basis of that which can be known1 and that which cannot be known4 ,he says3 ,we think in relations4 ,this is truly the form of all thought4444 ,on analyzing the process of thought we found that cognition of the absolute--the unknowable--was impossible because it presents neither relations nor its elements--difference and likeness4 ,further we found that not only intelligence but life itself consists in the establishment of internal relations in correspondence with external relations4 ,and lastly1 it was shown by the relativity of our thought we are eternally debarred from knowing or conceiving absolute being1 yet that this relativity of our thought necessitates that vague consciousness of ,absolute ,being which no mental effort can suppress4 ,it is apparent that these propositions contradict each other4 ,for1 if from the relativity of thought we are eternally debarred from knowing or conceiving ,absolute ,being1 how is it that we have a vague consciousness of this same ,absolute ,being which cannot be suppressed8 ,consciousness is one form of knowledge4 ,spencer1 thus recognizing the reality of the unknowable1 regards that which is or can be known as different manifestations of the unknowable4 ,these manifestations he claims1 as they appear in consciousness1 pass through a double series4 ,first1 a vivid series which includes all sense experience1 and second1 a faint series which includes thought1 as in speculation and deliberation4 ,force1 he contends1 is the ultimate and deepest truth of the universe4 ,all forms of consciousness1 he says1 are derived as experiences of force4 ,all sense experiences as in the objective series1 all subjective feeling or thought1 everything known or knowable1 is a manifestation of the one universal force or energy4 ,this universal force1 ,i contend1 is1 first1 spirit or mind force2 second1 electric force controlled by mind force4 ,he says3 ,contemplating pure force1 we are irresistibly compelled by the relativity of our thought to vaguely conceive some unknown force as the correlative of the known force4 ,this unknown or imperceptible force ,i contend is electricity and the mental force back of it4 ,all our ideas of matter and motion1 he says1 are ideas of force4 ,the demonstrated fact of the indestructibility of matter is but another name for the indestructibility of force4 ,the persistency of force means also the persistency of motion4 ,all forms of physical energy--as light1 heat1 sound1 electricity1 magnetism1 chemical action1 gravity and sensible motion--he says1 are different manifestations of force4 ,in this ,i fully agree with him and claim these are all manifestations of the one fundamental force in nature--electricity4 ,he says3 ,even after all has been said1 many will be alarmed by the assertion that the forces we designate as mental come within the same generalization4 ,yet there is no alternative but to make this assertion4 ,the facts which justify or rather necessitate it being abundant and conspicuous4 ,all the phenomena of mind belong to the same class--the phenomena of force4 ,in this ,i agree1 and contend that the mental or spiritual forces are the most potent and supreme forces of the universe and control all other forces1 physical and electric1 and are the ultimate of ultimates4 ,he says3 ,the various forms of force are all changeable into one another4 ,this is shown1 he says1 by the conservation of energy and the correlation of forces4 ,this accords with my electrical theory of creation1 which holds that there is but one physical force in the universe--electricity--and all other forces1 such as light1 heat1 physical life and so-called gravitation1 are manifestations of this one fundamental force1 and are all changeable or convertible into one another1 and all controlled by the dominant force of mind or spirit4 ,in other words1 ,god controls the universe as man controls his body4 ,man controls his body by the electric energy that permeates his body and brain1 and ,god controls the universe by the electric energy that permeates all matter and space1 and which is subjected to ,his ,omniscient ,spirit and ,omnipotent ,will4 ,herbert ,spencer says3 ,an entire history of anything must include its appearance out of the imperceptible and its disappearance into the imperceptible4 ,be it a single object or a whole universe1 any account which begins with it in a concrete form and leaves off with it in a concrete form is incomplete1 since there remains an era of its knowable existence undescribed and unexplained4 ,the simplest statement of this fact1 according to my theory1 is that all visible things come from the great invisible sea of electro-magnetism in which all things exist1 which he calls the imperceptible1 and are woven by magnetic attraction and the aggregation of billions of invisible atoms into visible forms4 ,then1 after they have run their course as visible substances or organic forms1 they are again dissolved back into this invisible sea of electro-magnetism4 ,just as water continually changes from solid and liquid to invisible vapor and back again1 so nature continually renews and purifies her ever-changing molecules but changeless atoms1 and builds up organic forms by magnetic attraction and dissolves them by electric repulsion4 ,i contend that matter could be gathered into visible form in no other way than by electric attraction4 ,the life period of all visible things is while magnetic attraction has sway and is paramount2 the death or dissolution period is when electric repulsion predominates4 ,the blossoms and fruitage of summer are samples of magnetic life from the sun currents1 while the decay of winter is a sample of electric repulsion and dissolution4 ,the law of incessant change1 he says1 must be the unifying principle which in its simplest form is the redistribution of matter and motion4 ,again he says3 ,the progress from the most diffused and insensible state to that of concentration and definition is called evolution1 and is attended by the dissipation of motion and the integration of matter4 ,this ,i call the law of electric attraction4 ,the progress from the form of definition to that of diffusion1 he says1 is called dissolution and is attended by an absorption of motion and a disintegration of matter4 ,this ,i call the law of electric repulsion4 ,this1 he says1 is the universal law of evolution and dissolution in its simplest form4 ,and ,i say that the law of evolution and dissolution in its simplest form is the law of electric attraction and repulsion4 ,mr4 ,spencer's definition is complicated1 but his process is substantially correct4 ,yet he offers no explanation of this natural and universal process1 while my electric theory of creation does1 and makes his universal evolution and dissolution simply universal electric attraction and repulsion under the well-known laws of electro-magnetism4 ,this is a great advance1 a gigantic step toward the explanation of the universe4 ,the simplest illustration in physics explains both theories4 ,for instance1 dry steam1 he says1 will condense to its liquid form1 water by permitting the dissipation of its internal motion in the process of cooling1 and a further dissipation of internal motion of the water will reduce it to a solid form1 called ice4 ,this he calls evolution1 but he does not state what produces it4 ,i say it is produced by electric attraction4 ,then he says the mass of ice thus evolved from impalpable vapor may be set out in the sun and gradually melt1 by the absorption of motion from the sun1 into water1 and a further absorption of like motion will convert it into invisible vapor4 ,this he calls dissolution1 but does not explain it4 ,i say it is the result of the law of electric repulsion4 ,he speaks of the absorption of motion4 ,i contend there can be no absorption of motion1 but only an absorption of that which produces motion1 which is electric energy1 from the sun--the electric heart of the solar system4 ,motion1 ,i contend1 is not a cause but an effect1 and all physical motion is the result of electric energy4 ,and to say with ,tindall1 that light and heat is a mode of motion is to state an absurdity1 for motion is the result of some force operating on matter4 ,it is not a cause but an effect produced by a cause4 ,i explain force and the redistribution of matter and force as the product or the result of the universal laws of electric attraction and repulsion1 which control atoms1 suns and worlds and all matter in body and space4 ,mr4 ,spencer offers no explanations and relegates all to the convenient dumping ground of the unknowable4 ,what he calls ,the realm of the unknowable ,i call the electro-magnetic sea of ether in which all things exist and from which all things are evolved1 which is the imperceptible elements of the universe in solution4 ,this ,i claim is the fourth form of matter1 the invisible primary essence of all visible creations4 ,i state his law of the redistribution of matter and motion in this way3 ,an increase of electric energy produces an accelerated motion of the molecules of a body or substance1 and1 if continued1 tends to its dissolution by electric repulsion2 while an increase of magnetic attraction decreases the activity of its molecules and tends to integration or solidity of form or substance4 ,there is no such thing as heat in reality2 heat is accelerated motion1 a sensation caused by the increased activity of the molecules2 while cold is the absence of motion or heat4 ,mr4 ,spencer has described a general indefinite process as the redistribution of matter and motion1 but he has revealed no natural law1 or fundamental explanation of natural phenomena4 ,every important question leads him to a stone wall which he does not try to scale or penetrate1 but labels the ,unknowable4 ,a learned philosopher who has spent his life endeavoring to instruct others should not fall back into the convenient ditch of the unknowable4 ,he says3 ,what is it that holds together the parts of which this ultimate atom may be imagined to consist8 ,the only answer is a cohesive force4 ,but he does not attempt to explain what that cohesive force is1 while ,i undertake to say it is magnetic cohesion under the law of electro-magnetism1 which holds aggregations of atoms in organic affinity1 producing visible form and substance4 ,he says3 ,force is the ultimate of ultimates4 ,matter and motion are only different manifestations of this unknowable force4 ,this is making force usurp the place of ,deity4 ,force is a servant1 not a master--a tool and not an ultimate cause4 ,force without intelligence back of it is anarchy and ruin2 it is chaos and not a cosmos4 ,god is a scientific necessity4 ,the ultimate of ultimates is mind or spirit--the eternal intelligent spirit of ,deity and man4 ,i accept the scientific postulate that the conservation of energy and the correlation of forces affirm1 first1 that there is but one kind of energy or force in the physical universe2 but ,i go further and contend electric energy is that force4 ,second1 that1 like matter energy cannot be created or destroyed4 ,third1 that energy appears in a variety of forms as motion1 heat1 light and so-called gravity and chemical action4 ,fourth1 that these forms of energy are interchangeable--any one form may change into any other form1 and all are transformations of the one ultimate force ,i term electricity4 ,fifth1 that there is nothing in science to show that mind or spirit ever changes into physical energy1 or force into mind or matter1 or either into the other4 ,this destroys the doctrine of monoecism1 or all things from one substance4 ,and ,haeckel will have to produce more facts and logic than he has yet set forth to prove that spirit and matter1 force and matter are all one and the same thing or substance4 ,the psychic or mental force is the paramount force1 and the true realm of evolution belongs to the mental or spiritual universe and to organic nature4 ,physical changes are not evolution in the highest sense except as they are the result of spiritual power and unfolding intellect4 ,the highest sphere of evolution is in biology and psychology4 ,there is matter1 mind and force4 ,materialism is a shallow1 one-sided doctrine2 and the opposite extreme1 that there is no matter1 nothing but mind1 is also shallow and one-sided4 ,these three separate entities maintain their separate and distinct existence4 ,the electric theory explains and elucidates all natural philosophy and all material phenomena1 and is as a scientist has well said1 the best exposition ever offered of the physics and metaphysics of the universe4 ,in regard to another phase of natural philosophy1 ,kant proved that in our experience objects can be known only in relation to a subject1 and matter only in relation to mind4 ,from this it is evident that mind is at least co-ordinate with matter and cannot be treated as a mere property of matter4 ,from this doctrine ,spencer took refuge in the strange notion that we possess two consciousnesses1 the consciousness of ideas within us and the consciousness of motions without us4 ,that neither of these could be resolved into the other1 though both were the phenomena of an unknowable absolute4 ,this self-contradiction of a dualistic separation between two aspects of our life1 which as a matter of fact can never be divided1 proved a citadel of ignorance which could not withstand the attacks of logical criticism4 ,mr4 ,spencer's agnostic dualism of objective and subjective mind was due to a fundamental misconception of what is meant by the subjectivity of knowledge4 ,if we have the consciousness of object and subject only in relation to each other1 it is not necessary to seek the principle of their unity in any third principle1 for his unknowable absolute is in our mouths and in our hearts1 and found in the inseparable unity of experience in which the inward and outward are correlative elements4 ,it seems ,mr4 ,spencer's agnosticism is a sort of spiritual refuge for the destitutes who renounce their heritage like ,esau or waste it like the prodigal son1 and feed on husks4 ,for those who by their abstractions separate the elements of experience from each other1 are forced to go beyond experience for the unity they have lost1 and flounder in the miry bogs of agnosticism4 ,the true way is to give up such abstractions as objective and subjective mind1 for the mind is a unity1 and learn to think things together and recognize the organic relation of the inner and the outer life and explain the parts by the whole1 and not the whole by artificially severed parts4 ,this organic unity of mind in man is illustrated by the organic unity of the universe1 which1 under the electric theory of creation1 is a vast electric organism bound together by invisible electric bands1 where every atom has an individuality manifested and explained in the harmonious unity of an ever-changing but indestructible universe4 ,as man is capable of knowing all things1 he cannot be identified with any of them1 or if as an individual he is so identified1 he has within him in his spiritual nature that which carries him beyond the limits of his individuality4 ,in his inner moral life man is revealed to himself as a free-will agent1 a great and self-determining being1 conscious of being subordinated only to the law of duty1 which is the law of his own reason4 ,that law1 in spite of every outer pressure1 he knows he ought to obey1 and therefore knows that he can obey it4 ,thus man is both natural and spiritual2 he is limited to a finite personality1 yet possesses a universal capacity for knowledge and an absolute power of self-determination4 ,human reason with one voice seems to depress man to the level of an animal1 and with the other voice proceeds to elevate him to the theatre of all life and being1 as a spectator of all time and existence1 gifted with absolute freedom of will and conscious individuality4 ,there is an identity which is below or above all distinction2 and the universe is one through all its multiplicity and permanent through all its changes4 ,the unity beneath all differences1 the priority of the universal to all particulars1 is necessary to the true conception of the organic unity of the world4 ,all opposition of thought and things are relative oppositions which find a solution in the life and movement of the whole4 ,in all the great controversies that have divided the world the combatants have really been co-operators4 ,they developed truth and unity4 ,we do not see anything truly until we comprehend it as a whole1 and see it in all its relations to the universe4 ,everything so far as it has an independent1 individual existence at all is an organism4 ,while conceiving the universe as organic1 ,hegel maintained that it is not a natural but a spiritual organism4 ,for the limited scope of a natural organism and its process cannot be regarded as commensurate with a universe which comprehends all existence1 whether classed as organic or inorganic4 ,only the conscious and self-conscious unity of mind can overreach and overcome such extreme antagonisms and reduce them all to elements in the realization of its own life4 ,the natural universe1 ,i contend1 is an organism which includes nature1 but manifests its ultimate or highest spiritual force only in the life of man4 ,the universe as an electric organism obeys the higher supreme spiritual forces4 ,it is said that ,hegel was only working out in the sphere of speculative thought what ,christianity had already expressed for the ordinary consciousness4 ,nearly all great thinkers1 ,i contend1 reason forward or backward to the fundamental truths of the ,bible1 only expressed in a little different way1 and which is the old familiar process in human history of pouring old wine into new bottles4 ,hegel sought to show how an idealistic view of the universe and human life could be maintained consistently with the fullest recognition of scientific methods and results4 ,this was an attempt at the reconciliation of science1 philosophy and religion proceeding from the growing prevalence of that harmonizing spirit which seeks to do justice to the results of scientific investigation and at the same time give them a new and enlightened interpretation4 ,in this he was right4 ,the main conflict in philosophy as in religion has ceased to lie between materialism and idealism or spiritualism1 but rather between ,herbert ,spencer's ,vague ,consciousness of the ,absolute1 which he bids us worship1 and that faith which enables us to pierce the veil of the phenomena and grasp the ultimate reality of things4 ,philosophy1 therefore1 is always toiling after the intuitions of faith as cities of refuge4 ,all philosophy can safely maintain that what is rational is actual1 and what is actual is rational4 ,and all accord with man's highest inspirations of spiritual faith and hope4 ,and the electric theory of creation is the most rational explanation of an organic universe evolved and controlled by natural law which is the will of ,deity1 whereby spirit intelligence controls by electric energy all the forces and manifestations of visible creation4 ,herbert ,spencer has done a great work for science4 ,he has been a great champion and expounder of evolution1 and the laws of the material universe4 ,and while he has been a great agnostic on religious subjects it is because he is a spiritual non-conductor4 ,man is like a wireless telegraphic receiver2 he draws only that which corresponds to his nature and character4 ,different men have different casts of mind and different natural aptitudes4 ,some are natural receivers of truths1 and others are natural non-conductors of certain truths4 ,there are two eminent illustrations of this fact1 it is said1 in the immortal ,sir ,isaac ,newton and ,john ,milton1 whose names are equally historic and illustrious for their learning and culture4 ,for it is said that ,newton could not appreciate ,paradise ,lost1 and ,milton could see nothing in ,the ,principia4 ,this was not to the discredit of either of these books1 nor was it a reflection upon the technical learning of either man4 ,neither was attuned to the message which the other brought to humanity and it proves that in order to apprehend truth in any quarter a man must be sympathetically disposed toward it4 ,milton had no mind for mathematics1 nor ,newton for poetry4 ,so the wisest philosophers like ,herbert ,spencer may go to religion and find nothing there but the abstruce and unknowable4 ,spencer's mind dwells on the phenomena of matter and material senses only4 ,it is said nearly every great thinker has some central thought fixed firmly in his mind4 ,the central thought of ,plato is the theory of ideas--the assertion of the apparitional character of the seemingly real world4 ,the central thought of ,pascal is that of human intelligence confronting the universe and strangled by its inexorable tragedies4 ,the central thought of ,schopenhauer is the absurdity of life1 and the central thought of ,herbert ,spencer is the evolution of the material universe4 ,,part ,,second ,sleep1 death and oblivion are things that mock2 ,sleep in dreams2 death and oblivion in the grave2 ,and yet we are not mocked4 ,we only walk ,amid realities that bind us like a slave4 ,sleep soothes and cheers2 death grimly reaps and slays4 ,it makes earth but a tomb--its house of revelry2 ,it stalks amid life's dark and brightest ways ,and takes its victims4 ,all are 'neath its slavery4 ,with chilling frosts it nips life's brightest flowers1 ,and with pale faces and a gasp they go1 ,and vaguely trust to bloom 'neath other bowers1 ,where death's grim hand will never blast them so4 ,all hearts beat to music and measure1 ,like songs of the spheres as they roll1 ,and from dreamland's far mystical treasure ,come songbirds that sing to the soul2 ,where the glint of the gold in fair tresses ,hide a face that we never have seen1 ,and the infinite hope that caresses ,kisses joys that we never may glean4 ,for the wealth of the world is ideal2 ,there is bliss in the beauty of rhyme1 ,and the thoughts of the soul are the real1 ,outlasting the cycles of time4 ,and the soul is the diamond eternal ,where spirit and power are one1 ,brushing dross from its splendor supernal ,as dust from the eye of the sun4 ,all life is a poem of glory2 ,neither reason nor senses can grasp1 ,till we read every verse in the story1 ,and the hand of the author we clasp4 ,then sing on sweet souls as of olden1 ,with visions of soul-land that shine1 ,till the harp of the earthly is golden ,from the hand of the ,author ,divine4 ,,chapter ,,xi ,,science ,,and ,,philosophy ,,sustain ,,the ,,religious ,,concept ,i contend that science1 philosophy and electric evolution sustain the religious concept4 ,the infinite and eternal power that animates the universe must be psychical in its nature1 and any attempt to reduce it to mechanical force must end in absurdity4 ,the only kind of monism which will stand the test of an ultimate analysis1 says ,john ,fiske is monotheism4 ,the highest development of psychical life is the end for which the world exists4 ,to the materialist the ultimate power is material power1 and psychical life is nothing but fleeting colocations of natural elements in the shape of nervous systems4 ,the psychical nature of ,god and the immortality of the soul harmonize infinitely better with cosmic philosophy4 ,prof4 ,john ,fiske says3 ,evolution brings before us with vividness the conception of an ever-present ,god1 not an absentee ,god who once manufactured a cosmic machine capable of running itself4 ,it makes ,god our constant support and nature ,his revelation1 and when all its religious implications are set forth it will be seen to be the most potent ally ,christianity ever had in elevating mankind4 ,the progress of evolution now is to bring out the higher spiritual attributes and to set the whole doctrine of evolution in harmony with religion4 ,then1 the assumption that underlies all religion must be true--that what we see of the present life is not the whole thing2 that there is a spiritual as well as a material side of life2 in short1 a life eternal4 ,in the whole history of evolution1 he continues1 when we see an internal adjustment reach out towards something1 it is in order to adapt itself to something that exists4 ,and if the religious cravings of man constitute an exception they are the only exception in the whole process of evolution4 ,this is an argument of stupendous and resistless weight4 ,this puts evolution in harmony with religious thought1 and the great religious drift of humanity in all ages1 and removes the antagonism that used to appear to exist between religion and science4 ,the ,french materialists of the eighteenth century virtually declared3 ,we content ourselves with what we can prove by the methods of physical science and we will reject all else4 ,but think how chaotic nature was to their minds compared to our present conception1 and how different the universe they saw to what we see to-day4 ,and it is not to be wondered at that there was antagonism between science and religion4 ,anaxagoras maintained that the human race would never have become human if it were not for the hand1 and ,john ,fiske says1 man never would have attained his present psychic powers but for religion4 ,this is truth well stated1 and the fact that man is the only creature that has a hand1 an articulate voice and an aesthetic nature that is never satisfied1 is strong proof that man is infinitely more than a mere animal1 or a transient animate machine4 ,the higher intellectual powers were dwarfed in the middle ages1 when human life was made hideous by famine1 pestilence1 perennial warfare and bloody superstitions1 fear of witchcraft and eternal torments1 and men endured it because they had no experience of anything better4 ,but the change wrought in six centuries is amazing1 and shows that human genius and man's possibilities are beyond our comprehension4 ,the genius of ,aristotle proved that the earth is a globe1 that of ,copernicus showed that it was one of a system of planets1 and that of ,newton undertook to explain the laws and dynamics of this marvelous sun and world system4 ,belief in ,god1 and the immortality of the soul1 and the compensations of a future life tend to maintain social order and moral rectitude1 by enabling men to endure the trials and injustice of this world in the hope of ample compensation in the hereafter4 ,man steps forth on this revolving globe not of his own volition1 but is sent here by some mysterious power on some inscrutable mission to fulfill some divine purpose4 ,he comes as a spiritual wayfarer under sentence of death4 ,not death to the spirit1 but to the transient habiliments of earth-dust he gathers round his invisible spiritual form4 ,when he arrives and gathers his reasoning powers to scan the narrow horizon of his life1 he is beset by perplexing problems of poverty1 disease1 sorrow1 sin and death4 ,the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune often overwhelm him1 and he discovers at last that the law of life is the law of growth and development2 and all these struggles and trials are intended to evolve character and purify and ennoble the soul4 ,that this is the seed time and nursery of existence preparatory to the harvest of eternal life when he shall drop this overcoat of atoms and be transplanted to the self-luminous bosom and unfading joys of the perfected and celestial sun-worlds4 ,here he sees incompleteness1 fragmentary careers1 tragedies1 injustice1 griefs and farewells1 and he hungers for knowledge4 ,his quenchless spirit seeks to penetrate the mysteries of the universe1 and comprehend time and eternity1 and in agony of soul he asks the age-old question1 ,if a man die1 shall he live again8 ,then1 if he turn not to the pages of sacred writ for an answer1 he will find written on the living pages and animated forms of all nature the promise of another life4 ,he will find it in the returning verdure of spring1 in the unfading light of the eternal stars1 in the ever-changing beauty of the bending skies1 in the mysterious impulse of the untaught birds of the air who start on their vast migrations from the frozen seas of the north to the summer-lands of the sunny south2 in the tropic fish1 who seek their spawning nests in the clear1 cool rivers of the north4 ,the bear and lion1 the tiger and elephant1 the bees and the insects of a summer day1 all have the longings of their natures satisfied4 ,why should man be an exception8 ,if the ,creator of all keeps faith with all other creatures1 why not with man8 ,as something must have been eternal1 says ,prof4 ,wright1 it is easier to suppose it was an intelligent1 designing mind which was uncreated from the beginning1 and which has brought the universe into being with all its uniformity of laws and complexity of adaptation than to suppose that the eternal substance was matter out of which has come the orderly universe as we know it1 with its high grades of intelligence in animals and man4 ,the world1 as the creation of a supreme intelligence1 is partially comprehensible to finite minds4 ,but to suppose that the thought and purpose and will of man are products of material forces is not only a mystery1 but an absurdity which cannot long be entertained by any sane mind4 ,the theory of evolution without a ,god can lay no claim to scientific support4 ,a theory of evolution1 designed1 controlled and permeated by divine ideas1 may be both scientific and in accord with the highest dictates of religious truth4 ,as to the life hereafter1 which the religious concept has always proclaimed1 it is a fact demonstrated by history that in all ages1 among all people1 under all religious forms1 the idea of immortality remains fixed and imperishable in the human mind4 ,every human being in coming into this world brings with him under a form more or less vague this inward belief1 desire and hope of immortality4 ,this is ,god's handwriting on the human soul4 ,and the history of man1 the reasoning conscience of man1 is ,god's ,bible of life written in man's spiritual nature4 ,and whatever is rational1 true and good is of ,god1 and whatever is contrary to the enlightened conscience of man is contrary to the divine purpose of ,god4 ,revelation proclaims ,god is a spirit and man is a spirit1 and after death man in his spiritual being shall live on forever4 ,the latest modern scientific thought fully and powerfully sustains the ,bible4 ,it says in substance1 in dealing with man we must deal with him as a spiritual being2 we must go into a realm that brings us within the sphere of the electrical and magnetic relations of the elements1 but on a different plane4 ,first1 matter in the invisible world has the same essential basis of formative power so potent in the more tangible relations4 ,second1 the invisible atoms there obey the same essential principles that in a lower grade of activity give visible results4 ,third1 there must be a direct connection between the two conditions of being--the visible and the spiritual--as to be axiomatic4 ,fourth1 there must be a secondary form of the invisible elements ere they assume the visible relation1 which is a chemical or electric necessity4 ,in all life this law is absolute4 ,fifth1 in applying this principle to the process of the evolution of man's form we have an explanation of how it must be a natural product of evolutionary life1 and that man must follow the same law as the evolution of all spirit that pertains to planetary life4 ,spirit holds visible things in form by its connection with the magnetic life of the planet4 ,it is the controlling power in shaping the form and organism to correspond to changed conditions4 ,the material form can only exist by keeping itself in harmony with the laws of the elements in the planet1 and as long as the planet endures the electric form in man and the electric or instinct form in animals within the radius of its magnetic aurora must exist as a secondary satellite1 or miniature concrete expression of the forces in the planet4 ,this principle may give the electric form immortality1 and1 by reason of the eternal nature of the elements composing it1 place it beyond the possibility of dissolution as long as the planetary relation of the elements exists4 ,but with man it goes even further1 for the spirit form1 having the basic principles of eternal existence in its spiritual composition and having once entered upon organic life1 has in itself immortality and the power of self-sustenance from the elements in space and cannot become disintegrated1 for it has all the necessary material to keep it in eternal existence as an organism1 though the planet should revert to its original status and vanish as a distinct form4 ,this explanation of the nature of spirit gives us a logical ground for the rational consideration of the phenomenon that has been the basis of all the superstitions embalmed in the sacred and curious literature of past ages4 ,that man and probably all types of life have a spiritual or electric counterpart is not a scientific speculation or hypothesis merely1 but a logical sequence of the forms that enter into physical organization4 ,here in the secondary form1 says the author of ,planetary ,evolution1 is an explanation of the nature of spirit that follows the same principles that construct the physical body and form the same material environments4 ,and the questions of a spiritual life1 apart from this principle of a secondary form1 cannot be solved by any known formula of a scientific character4 ,on the other hand1 the existence of a form holding the powers of thought and action upon the plane of radiant matter gives a satisfactory explanation of the transference of the mental powers that belong to planetary life4 ,the law of correlation and conservation of force prevent their annihilation1 and they must exist somewhere4 ,they are a spiritual entity1 but should not be regarded as having a supernatural origin4 ,the spirit is an evolution of planetary life and cannot be destroyed1 and it is natural that its mental attachments to the planet should bring it in contact with the mental development generated there4 ,the spirit would have the power of thought and consecutive reasoning as much after its transition from mortal life as before1 but it would lack the power of expression through ordinary channels4 ,it would1 however1 have the power of inductive electric transfer of thought1 and1 coming in contact with a spirit embodied1 this power of induction would excite the elements in the spirit embodied to equilibrium of mentality1 which would give rise to a similarity of thought in both4 ,and here lies the foundation of the doctrine of inspiration which is a process of mental action whereby the mind in the body is raised to a perception and expression of ideas beyond its own range of thought as generated by the physical senses4 ,the result is the upbuilding of the brain organ and the uplifting of the mentality to the purely spiritual plane1 and man has thus1 by the aid of the spiritual powers1 made another stride forward in the domain of spiritual evolution4 ,and man is a spiritualized being with brain organs adapted to the expression of ideas that respond to the spiritual state of life4 ,it is sometimes assumed that a man cannot be a ,christian and a man of science2 yet there have been many men of science1 from ,newton to ,lord ,kelvin1 who were devout ,christians4 ,it is also assumed in some quarters that an educated man cannot believe in miracles1 or answers to prayer1 or special providences4 ,but this is not a fair assumption even from a scientific standpoint4 ,science affirms the universality of energy and law2 ,christian theology accepts this fundamental postulate of science and says it is the result of universal spirit and will1 or ,infinite ,mind and volition1 which is back of universal energy and law4 ,energy is spirit and will at work2 law is the mode of work4 ,energy and law are derivative1 spirit and will is the primary and ultimate force of the universe4 ,but says the unbelieving scientist1 ,i accept energy and law as facts1 but do not see that spirit and will are facts4 ,christianity replies3 ,you mean by 'see1' mental sight2 for in the physical sense you can no more see energy and law than you can see spirit and will1 or mind and volition4 ,the fact is1 science is a search for the invisible or supersensible--for that which lies beyond sense and vision4 ,you call it energy and law1 which we say is a result and not a cause1 and point to spirit and will1 which is the primitive1 ultimate1 first cause of universal energy and law4 ,would you feel it a just description of yourself if you were described as nothing but a system of energy and law4 ,energy is action according to law4 ,but there is psychical energy as well as physical energy1 or 'a double faced' unity--psychical on one side and physical on the other4 ,thought1 feeling1 volition are all species of energy subject to laws of their own4 ,and1 what is most wonderful1 while they are invisible and intangible they control all physical energy in man and all animal organisms1 just as universal spirit and will or volition control all energy and law in the physical universe4 ,then1 is universal energy and law psychical or physical8 ,if it is intelligent and works according to design and purpose with beneficent uniformity it must be psychical1 and all physical energy and law is but a manifestation of spiritual energy and purpose4 ,then says the scientist1 there may be intelligence without physical organism1 and man may be in constant contact with the spiritual world4 ,but ,i am an organized being and cannot imagine how unorganized beings could communicate with me even if they wished to do so4 ,i cannot imagine it as possible that ,i could know ,god1 who is a spirit4 ,but ,christianity answers1 suppose you are not matter only1 but that you are a spirit also1 and a spiritual atom of that universal spirit which controls the universe1 then could not spirit communicate with spirit8 ,thus1 you say1 all science is founded on energy and law1 which necessitates spiritual intelligence and will for its foundation1 and consciousness for its evidence4 ,thought1 feeling volition are forms of psychical energy4 ,we are conscious that we think1 feel1 will2 and as consciousness is a mental or spiritual perception1 man must be a spiritual being4 ,then we are not far from ,theism--for ,god is a spirit4 ,besides energy and law we have consciousness and spirit1 and no force without will4 ,law is simply the mode in which will works4 ,law stands for the regular and steadfast operation of will1 as opposed to variable or capricious action4 ,the uniformity of nature is rooted in the faithfulness of ,god1 which sustains the steadfast operation of natural law4 ,then says the scientist1 there could be no miracles1 or answers to prayer1 or special providences1 for these imply interference with law1 which would mean inconsistency on ,god's part and confusion on ours4 ,but ,christianity answers1 interference with law is of continual occurrence4 ,you cannot stand up or walk1 or so much as raise your hand without interfering with the law of gravitation or attraction4 ,we can modify or direct the action of forces without violating their laws4 ,violation of ,god's laws on ,god's part would mean inconstancy4 ,direction of his own energy to any point ,he wills--as in evolution1 for example--is no violation of law2 neither are what are termed miracles1 special providences and answers to prayer violations of law1 but evolutions in accordance with law1 as law stands for ,god's mode of working in the control of the universe4 ,then says the scientist1 ,i cannot reconcile the two ideas of 'infinity' and 'personality4' ,personality implies limitation2 infinity asserts absence of limitation1 a being cannot be at once limited and unlimited4 ,but why should we suppose personality to involve limitation8 says ,christian theology4 ,even in man the essential idea of personality is not limitation4 ,personality in philosophy and theology refers not to the body but to consciousness and will4 ,what difficulty is there in believing that the ,infinite ,god is infinitely conscious and volitional and therefore personal4 ,there is a mighty force in the material metaphors of the ,bible1 but these all stand for spiritual realities1 and its fundamental postulate is ,god is a ,spirit1 and ,god is ,love4 ,as man is a spiritual atom of deity4 ,god has spiritual contact and influence with his spiritual children and they are moved by the ,spirit1 and born of the ,spirit1 as they accept and obey that spiritual influence which leads to righteousness and truth4 ,religion cannot exist without spirituality and the religious concept4 ,god has so constituted the human soul4 ,without religion the soul could not dream of heaven nor feel the sweet whisperings of faith and hope4 ,neither could the heart thrill with spiritual joy and truth4 ,without religion the heaven-bound spirit could not soar to the altitudes of celestial bliss4 ,without religion and ideality there would have been no gems of art or literature1 no beautiful pictures1 no living statuary1 no lofty temples or inspiring thoughts4 ,the grandeur of ,shakespeare1 the sublimity of ,milton1 the poetry of ,byron1 ,burns1 ,tennyson and ,longfellow1 the romances of ,scott1 ,dickens and ,hawthorne1 the noble architecture of ,michael ,angelo1 the statuary of ,phideas1 ,praxatelles and ,canova1 and the pictures of ,raphael1 ,murello1 and ,reuben had never been known4 ,ideality is the father of beauty and the inspiration of all genius1 goodness and nobility and the twin brother of religious hope and faith4 ,without religion ideality would be a mockery and a dream1 hope would be a delusion and a snare1 inspiration would wither1 like ,jonas' gourd1 in a night1 and the mildew of selfish materialism would convert the verdure of earth into deserts of despair4 ,john ,fiske well says1 ,man never would have attained his present psychic powers but for religion1 and without religion ideality would never have soared to her lofty heights or brought forth her beautiful thoughts1 her lofty conceptions1 her sublime dreams of joy1 or her noble gems of art1 poetry1 sculpture1 architecture and literature4 ,remove the twin brothers--religion and ideality--from the earth1 and its glory and worth would shrivel like a withered flower4 ,its hopes and joys1 its dreams of peace and love1 of paradise and heaven1 would vanish into the desolations of a boundless ,sahara1 heaped with the burning sands of doubt and scorched by the withering blast of despair4 ,the religious concept is the pilot of the soul to the fair field of heaven1 the communion with the ,father of the spirit1 and ideality is its companion and servant who carries its cloak and staff as they journey along the pathways of earth and the highways of eternity4 ,science and philosophy1 ideality1 love and hope and all the aspirations of the human soul sustain the religious concept4 ,it is a scientific postulate imbedded in the nature of man and in the basic law of the universe4 ,ideality and religion are the most powerful forces in uplifting humanity4 ,the sublimer the ideal the more potent and ennobling its influence on the human soul4 ,though millions grasp not its sublimity and truth1 those receptive souls nearest the light will catch its divine illuminations and reflect it to those below4 ,and gradually those below will grasp its beauty and truth and step up higher1 and each in succession1 step by step1 will advance to a higher plane and a broader view1 and this is growth and progress toward perfection4 ,the ultimate aim and purpose of creation is ideal perfection4 ,this purpose is written in the fundamental law of evolution--progress from the lower to the higher and the survival of the fittest4 ,the higher1 the more sublime1 the spiritual truth1 though it be ages in advance of the world's comprehension1 yet its brightness and power will penetrate the darkness1 and scintillate from soul to soul1 as the sun gleams from atom to atom1 until at last all humanity is illumined and exalted4 ,when we go down into the darkness and poisoned vapors of a dungeon we seek for a ray of sunshine as we seek for life and light1 and we are cheered by the smallest sunbeam which enters through a crevice1 for in its silvery thread of light little atoms float like miniature stars1 dispelling the desolation4 ,there at our feet1 left to decay and perish1 may be the seed or bulb of an insignificant vine or flower1 forgotten by the busy world of conflicts without1 where little men become great and great men become little1 not dreaming of the eternal law of life and hope that thrills in every throbbing atom and electric germ in this life-evolving magnetic universe4 ,but there in the darkness of that dungeon a struggle for life and hope goes on as important to the life involved as that of building a throne or destroying an empire4 ,never did a hero dare or a nation fight more bravely to attain its aspirations than did that little seed or bulb lying in the darkness4 ,a slender beam of light gives it a hope of escape1 and1 cold and chilled1 its prayer for life has slowly evolved a delicate pale vine which creeps toward the sunbeam4 ,each day it has seen that beam of light fade and pass1 and darkness and mildew paralyze it into the stupor of unconsciousness4 ,and again that sunbeam awoke it to consciousness and life4 ,at last it reached the crevice whence came the light1 and1 lifting itself as a prisoner escaping from death1 it springs forth into the sunshine and opens its blossoms of beauty and perfume to greet and gladden the world of light and life4 ,thus has humanity struggled for light1 and toiled for hope and joy and sunshine through a thousand ages of gloom and chilling mildew of ignorance and darkness4 ,and wherever a gleam of light and truth has pierced the shadows of life's struggles and tragedies1 like the tiniest seed or fragile vine1 the aspirations of his nature and his longing soul have reached up toward it4 ,what the ray of light is to the flower seed in the dungeon1 religion is to man4 ,wherever man has crept1 like the vine1 in the darkness1 towards the light it was his religious spiritual nature and aspirations which led him4 ,truth1 which comes from the bosom of the eternal ,good1 streams down into the darkness and lifts man's soul up into the light by the same law that the flower and the vine seek the sunshine1 and all true science and philosophy sustain the religious concept4 ,life seems of little value when men of every nation are armed to the teeth to slay each other like madmen1 as the best way in which they can show their gratitude to nature for the useless gift of life4 ,but they are not so anxious for war and bloodshed as their preparations would indicate4 ,and the ,world's ,peace ,conference at ,the ,hague1 and recent arbitration of national questions1 mark a new era in the world's history1 and indicate a disarmament of the nations in a few decades4 ,the fear of death is useless and absurd4 ,as ,flammarion has said1 there are only two sides to the question4 ,when we go to sleep at night there is always the possibility that we may never awaken4 ,yet this thought does not prevent us from falling asleep4 ,in one case1 suppose death to end all2 it is but an unfinished sleep to last forever4 ,in the other case1 should the soul survive the body1 we shall reawaken in another world to resume the activities of life4 ,in this case the awakening must be rather delightful1 as every form of life and every creature finds its happiness in the exercise of its natural energies and faculties4 ,the deep study of this important question and the disgust at the indifference of men to this great problem of human destiny impelled a great student of science to attempt suicide4 ,because he saw everywhere people absorbed in their material interests1 accumulating wealth1 consecrating their lives to ,mammon1 folly and passion and neglecting their nobler natures1 it made him doubt their fitness for an eternal existence1 and he determined to know the truth at once by plunging into the invisible unknown4 ,prof4 ,albert ,h4 ,walker1 in a recent lecture--,may1 #aijc--makes a new distinction in philosophy and religion1 when he says3 ,two systems of philosophy will divide the attention and adherence of the people of the twentieth century4 ,one is the old system of ,epicurus which long preceded the rise of ,christianity and which underlies the ,declaration of ,independence2 and the other is the philosophy of ,christian science4 ,his definition of religion and ,atheism is something modern and unique4 ,he says3 ,i define religion as belief in a ,god who cares2 and ,atheism as lack of belief in a ,god who cares4 ,these two definitions1 if correct1 divide all men into two classes1 and1 according to this classification1 most of the men in the ,united ,states are ,atheists4 ,he seems to think all men believe in a ,god1 but a majority believe in a ,god who does not care1 and that is ,atheism4 ,an ,atheist has always been defined as one who believes there is no ,god2 now they may believe in a ,god who does not care4 ,this is not a very bad distinction and may be the true one in the future4 ,for modern knowledge and culture forbids any thinking man from denying the existence of a ,god1 and this may compel modern ,atheism to modify its creed and accept a don't-care ,god4 ,he thinks this century may find an answer to the immortality of the soul1 and it may be in the affirmative through actual communication with departed souls2 or in the negative by scientific demonstration that the spirit or soul of man is only a name for the electrical and chemical actions and reactions which occur in the body4 ,he also says3 ,the twentieth century may show whether there is a great master hand that sweeps over the whole of this deep harp of life1 or whether men are but pipes through whom the breath of ',pan doth blow a momentary music4' ,religion has nothing to fear from the future2 materialism is vanquished and now ,atheism must change its creed4 ,canon ,farrar says3 ,let us think noble thoughts of ,god and break through the brain-spun meshes of impotent negations4 ,god is not vortices of atoms1 or streams of tendencies1 or earth fermentations4 ,heaven is not a vacuous eternity1 or a future of ceaseless psalmody4 ,the ,greek had his ,elysian ,fields1 his daffodil meadows where the ,eidola1 the shadowy images of the dead1 moved in a world of shadows2 and his islands of the blest1 where ,achilles and ,tydides unlaced the helmet from their flowing hair4 ,the ,scandinavian dreamed of his green sylvan paradise hereafter1 amid the barren wastes4 ,the ,indian saw ,god in lightning1 heard him in the thunder's roar1 and viewed beyond the cloud-capped hills his hunters' paradise4 ,and in the perennial hereafter in the all-life-giving sun there are green fields1 daffodil meadows1 golden light1 rainbows that never fade1 glorified cities1 white-robed innocence1 the crown and the palm branch1 the throne of serene majesty1 the golden harp and the song of rejoicing1 and all-abounding happiness1 innocent1 thrilling1 intense and unending4 ,the rare and radiant physical beauties of heaven we cannot describe1 but it is a place where no guilty step enters the gates of pearl1 in the city of ,god2 no polluting presence flings shadows on the golden streets of the ,new ,jerusalem4 ,it is the dwelling place of angels and just men made perfect1 and spirits of saints in celestial glory4 ,there is no darkness1 envy1 hatred or slander1 no gold mixed with dross4 ,no bleared and blighted crowds1 degraded out of the semblance of humanity1 crawl1 like singed moths1 around the flaring house of multiplied temptations4 ,where boyhood shall not so live as to make its own manhood miserable2 where manhood shall not so live as to make old age dishonorable and death ghastly4 ,the apples of ,sodom cannot grow on the same soil with the ,tree of ,life4 ,in other stars and countless worlds there may be work for us to do4 ,what radiant ministrations1 what infinite activities1 what never-ending progress1 what immeasurable happiness1 what living ecstasies of unknown raptures may surround us in the beauty and loveliness of the land of the leal1 in the life supernal8 ,heaven is not a reward but a continuity1 not a change but a development4 ,it means a place of love and goodness where we are one with ,god and playfellows with the angels4 ,present science would change ,god into a struggle of careless forces or a complexity of impersonal laws4 ,let us reject the ,chinese idea2 they believe in ,god1 but worship the devil1 because they think the devil's rule predominates4 ,let us discard the pagan deification of annihilation1 and the modern agnostic's plea for suicide1 and the ,greek poet's pessimistic postulate3 ,it were best never to have been born1 and next best to depart as soon as possible4 ,let us grieve at the dark shadows flung by theologians athwart ,god's light upon those who believe that human reason1 conscience1 and experience1 as well as ,scripture1 are the books of ,god4 ,phrases which belong to metaphor1 to imagery1 to poetry1 to emotion should not be formulated into dogmas1 or crystallized into creed4 ,discard the tyrannous realism of ambiguous metaphors1 the asserted infallibility of isolated words4 ,canon ,farrar says3 ,erase from our ,bible the erroneous disputed renderings of the three words1 'damnation1 hell and everlasting4' ,not one of these three expressions ought to stand any longer in our ,english ,bible4 ,he says further3 ,there has never been a human being yet since time began1 however beautiful1 gifted1 bright with genius1 or radiant with fascination1 who has sinned with impunity4 ,evil and punishment1 as ,plato said1 walk this world with their heads tied together1 and the rivet that links their iron link is of adamant4 ,it needs no lightning stroke1 or divine interposition1 no miraculous message to avenge ,god's violated laws4 ,they avenge themselves4 ,the hell fire of the ,bible was a spiritual fire which does not burn the flesh1 but purifies the spirit4 ,not a material fire1 but self-kindled fire1 an internal fever--in fact1 remorse for remembered sins--a figurative representation of a moral process by which restoration shall be effected4 ,when earthly life vanishes and we see in the visions of the soul an endless life and being in countless worlds of destiny1 death has no terrors4 ,the thought of the pale1 cold body enwrapt in its winding sheet1 coffined and alone in the narrow grave1 its last sad dwelling place1 with the grass growing above1 where the lonely cricket chirps through the silent night1 does not disturb the calm and reasoning soul4 ,a few years hence and we shall all cross the dark river to the shadowy unknown shore and learn the mysteries that lie beyond4 ,but where is that wondrous shore1 and where will all of the now living inhabitants of earth be a century hence8 ,not floating in the marvelous belt of atmosphere which surrounds the earth4 ,nor on a changeful planet like our earth4 ,not floating in the frigid ether of space1 but1 if my hypothesis is correct1 they will be celestial residents in the self-luminous1 all-life-giving sun4 ,the only rational scientific theory that satisfies my mind is to regard the suns as self-luminous1 perfected worlds1 the visible abode of deity1 and the future home of the soul4 ,this hypothesis accords with every recently established fact in science1 nature and revelation4 ,it fits man's hopes and aspirations1 his aesthetic nature1 his psychic powers and religious concept which have followed him through all the vicissitudes of his history4 ,the question often arises3 ,as justice reigns in the moral world1 as equilibrium reigns in the physical world1 and the destiny of the soul is the result of its aptitudes and its aspirations1 are only those souls alone that truly live and unfold their faculties and aspire to knowledge and truth destined to a conscious immortality8 ,many souls pass their lives here in mental sleep1 intellectual stupor1 and spiritual paralysis4 ,will they receive the gift of eternal life8 ,many great scientists think they will not4 ,and all who neglect their mental and moral development seal their own fate and will have no future existence4 ,this is a distressing view held and championed by some of the able minds of modern times4 ,but ,i do not agree with them1 for ,i believe every soul is a spiritual atom of deity and1 however ignorant and depraved1 may become wise and good1 and enjoy the beatitudes of an immortal existence4 ,,chapter ,,xii ,,human ,,reason ,,and ,,the ,,universe ,,are ,,books ,,of ,,god1 ,,as ,,well ,,as ,,the ,,bible4 ,it is a mistake to consider the ,bible as the only book of ,god and its revelations the only revelations of ,deity4 ,the natural universe and human reason are also books of ,god4 ,they are books ,he has been writing all along through the varied history of man and the universe1 from the dawn of creation until now4 ,man is ,god's handiwork1 ,his most perfect and finished product1 a machine he has been developing and improving through all the ages1 a book that ,he has bound and rebound1 and stamped upon it ,his name and title a million times4 ,the ,bible teaches this when it says1 ,ye are ,his epistles known and read of all men4 ,he has named this book1 this living epistle written by ,his own hands1 ,the ,sons of ,god1 ,children of the ,most ,high1 ,heirs of ,eternal ,life4 ,and man's body1 the binding which ,he has furnished for this book1 ,he has designated the temple of the living ,god--the tabernacle of flesh4 ,the ,bible is not only a book of religious and ethical teaching1 but also a history of the reason1 conscience and experience of men for a thousand generations4 ,the ,bible is the revelation of ,god's mind and will1 and so is man1 who was made in ,his image4 ,the ,bible is ,god's book1 but so is the physical universe ,his book and the revelation of ,his will4 ,the ,scriptures affirm this truth1 also1 when they say1 ,the heavens declare the glory of ,god and the firmament showeth ,his handiwork4 ,day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge4 ,thus ,god has three books instead of one4 ,his first book was the physical universe1 ,his second book was man and human reason1 conscience and experience4 ,and then ,he added the third1 the oracles of ,divine truth1 to instruct ,his spiritual atom1 man1 in the essential truths of life1 spiritual being and moral perfection4 ,the theologians should remember this1 and the scientists should read and study all these books4 ,man is a second edition of ,god epitomized1 and in his enlighted spiritual nature he thinks like ,god1 reasons like ,god1 and has the moral conscience1 goodness and love that emanate from ,god4 ,all these books of ,god should bear the same infallible testimony4 ,the ,bible should be in accord with the reason1 conscience and experience of man1 and both with the constitution and laws of the physical universe4 ,wherever they seem to differ or contradict each other it is because we do not understand them1 for there is perfect unity and harmony in all creation4 ,flammarion says3 ,science in revealing the plan of the universe will show that the moral universe is based upon the same plan1 that both worlds form but one world and that spirit governs matter4 ,the same laws rule everywhere and make the vast universe a unity4 ,all the ages of the past and future are one with the present1 and thinking beings will live eternally through successive and progressive transformations4 ,everything progresses toward supreme perfection4 ,the material world has but an apparent existence1 and the reality underlying it is a force imponderable1 invisible and intangible4 ,man is apparently an animal1 but he is not2 that is the visible side of his nature and is deceptive4 ,all he beholds is apparent4 ,the reality is something altogether different4 ,the sun seems to revolve around the earth1 and the earth seems to stand still4 ,the reverse is true4 ,we dwell upon the surface of a body revolving in space and projected with a velocity seventy-five times greater than the speed of a cannon ball4 ,we hear a harmony of sweet sounds which charm our senses4 ,the sound does not exist2 it is an impression made upon our sense of hearing by vibrations of the atmosphere which themselves emit no sound4 ,without the auditory nerve and brain there would be no sound4 ,in reality there is only motion in the ether4 ,the rainbow expands its radiant circle1 the rose and lily sparkle in the sunshine2 the green fields and golden grain diversify the landscape by their vivid colors4 ,but there are no colors2 there is no light2 there are only undulations in the air that set the optic nerve vibrating4 ,the sun warms and fertilizes1 the fire burns1 but there is no heat1 only the sensation of heat4 ,heat1 like light1 is only the result of motion--invisible1 all-potent1 supreme4 ,here is a solid iron joist sustaining tons of enormous weight1 yet the joist is composed of molecules which do not touch each other and are in continual motion4 ,what constitutes the solidity of this bar of iron8 ,not the atoms that compose it2 but the cause of its solidity is molecular attraction1 the invisible force of magnetic attraction4 ,the present scientific theories have only been apprehended by the brightest intellects within the last half century1 and would have been a conglomeration of absurdities to the wisest men of the world a century ago4 ,so1 written revelation had to use the language and symbols understood by the ancients4 ,and it seems that scientific evolution is constantly struggling for new terms to express new ideas and discoveries4 ,some scientists believe it impossible for the terrestrial being to attain a complete knowledge of the truth because he has only five senses1 and a multitude of the phenomena of nature remains unknown to his mind because he has no means by which to reach them4 ,just as if we should be unable to see if deprived of the optic nerve1 or to hear if deprived of the auditory nerve4 ,our terrestrial harp may be wanting in many chords which prevent us from catching the perfect harmony and truth of the universe4 ,it is said the smallest magnet can more easily than ,newton or ,leibnitz discover the magnetic pole1 and the swallow has more knowledge of the varieties of latitude than had ,columbus or ,magellan4 ,but whatever our experience1 it is a part of the book of ,god and nature4 ,flammarion says3 ,no one who is aware of the progress made in the exact sciences of to-day can pretend to be a materialist4 ,the psychic atom1 the principle of the human organism would be immortal1 like atoms everywhere1 if scientists were to admit the fundamental axioms of chemistry4 ,but it would be superior to atoms1 and be conscious of its existence4 ,can the soul partake of the character of electricity8 ,we conceive that it exists as force that survives the dissolution of the body4 ,i conceive the soul controls electricity1 which is the right hand of its power1 and the tongue of the spirit1 and survives in conscious power the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds4 ,whither does the soul go8 asks the same author1 and he answers to other worlds4 ,yes1 living principles of force can transport them from one world to another4 ,i agree with him4 ,i believe they go to other worlds1 and the other worlds are perfected sun-worlds4 ,we must not think that the soul belongs to some supernatural world4 ,there is nothing that is not in nature4 ,nature is unceasing progress4 ,it is only a few thousand years since terrestrial humanity emerged from its chrysalis state of being4 ,yet certain spirits have attained transcendent power1 and humanity has produced a ,shakespeare1 a ,goethe1 a ,hugo1 a ,newton1 and a ,milton4 ,we live in reality among the stars4 ,we are inhabitants of the skies4 ,life1 light and eternal progress to perfection is the final end and purpose of the universe4 ,every thinking man feels in his moral and psychic nature that he is linked to justice1 truth and ,deity4 ,maeterlinck1 the ,danish philosopher1 sustains this thought in his latest work when he says3 ,though nature appears unjust and nothing authorizes us to declare that a superior power rewards or punishes here or elsewhere1 it is none the less certain that an image of that invisible1 incorruptible justice we have vainly sought in the sky or the universe reposes in the depths of the moral life of every man4 ,it will not add to or take from our wealth1 it will bring no immunity from disease or lightning1 it will not prolong one hour the life of the being we cherish2 but if we have learned to reflect and to love1 it will establish in heart and brain a contentment that shall still be inexhaustible and noble4 ,it will confer a dignity of existence1 an intelligence1 that shall suffice to sustain our life after the loss of our wealth1 after the stroke of disease or lightning has fallen1 after the loved one has forever quitted our arms4 ,it is said ,jesus was a chosen medium to communicate to the people of the earth the higher sentiment of love which prevails in the sphere of spirit life4 ,his mission was to teach the doctrine of love to humanity1 and to afford a striking and never to be forgotten example of its violation4 ,this same ,jesus taught that ,god's law is written in the hearts of men1 and to those who listen to ,his voice--the still1 small voice of the spirit--,he moveth in them to will and to do according to ,his good pleasure4 ,this shows1 as ,maeterlinck says1 ,that the invisible justice that reposes in the moral life of every man comes from ,god and ,his epistle1 written on the secret tablets of the human soul4 ,goldwin ,smith says3 ,it will be found that ,anarchism and ,atheism generally went together4 ,but minds of the finer cast have preserved the religious spirit while they have thrown off the shackles of creed4 ,yet the ,positivist feels the need of a religion1 and for the worship of ,god he substitutes the worship of humanity4 ,humanity is an abstraction1 an imperfect abstraction4 ,it cannot hear prayer or respond in any way to adoration4 ,the adherents of ,comte's religion1 therefore1 are few4 ,tindall and ,huxley would console us for the loss of religion by substituting the majesty of law4 ,but the idea of law implies an intelligent1 authoritative imponent of some kind4 ,there is no majesty in a sequence4 ,the all-embracing philosophy of ,herbert ,spencer excludes the supernatural and ,theism in its ordinary form1 and looks upon them as the ,unknowable1 which he presents as an object of reverence4 ,but unknowableness in itself excites no reverence1 even though it be supposed infinite and eternal4 ,nothing excites our reverence but a person1 or at least a moral being4 ,thus does ,goldwin ,smith1 the great ,freethinker of to-day1 demolish the ,freethinkers of yesterday1 the ,tindalls1 ,huxleys and ,darwins of ,materialism1 the ,comtes and ,voltaires of ,atheism1 and the ,herbert ,spencers and ,ingersolls of ,agnosticism1 and contends for the inexorable necessity of a personal deity with intelligent moral or spiritual power4 ,he says the present tendency is to minimize the supernatural and throw it into the background1 bringing the personal character of ,christ and his ethical teachings into the foreground1 and1 the legemen of reason should consider to how great an extent our civilization has hitherto rested on religion4 ,abstract humanitarianism1 and scientific naturalism do not constitute a moral standard1 nor can scientific postulates be made a basis for moral culture4 ,only when acted upon by man does nature give response to the increasing purpose of the world1 and the supreme test is spiritual4 ,religious truths are fundamental truths4 ,first1 the existence and personality of ,god2 second1 ,his creation and government of the universe2 third1 man's immortality and freedom of will4 ,these are not contradicted by the solid facts of science nor shattered by the great eternal iron laws of the universe4 ,on the contrary all harmonize with these great truths4 ,emperor ,william of ,germany in his letter to ,admiral ,holbrun1 ,feb4 #bj1 #aijc1 says3 ,i distinguish between two different kinds of revelation--progressive and1 as it were1 historical1 the other purely religious4 ,it does not admit of a doubt that ,god reveals ,himself continuously in the race of men created by ,him4 ,he breathes into man the breath of ,his life1 and follows with fatherly love and interest the development of the human race4 ,in order to lead it forward and develop it1 ,he reveals ,himself in this or that great sage1 whether priest or king1 whether among the heathen1 ,jews or ,christians4 ,hammurabi was one1 so was ,moses1 ,abraham1 ,homer1 ,charlemagne1 ,luther1 ,shakespeare1 ,goethe1 ,kant1 and ,emperor ,william the ,great4 ,these he sought out and endowed with his grace to accomplish splendid1 imperishable results for their people in their intellectual and physical provinces according to ,his will4 ,emperor ,william seems from these statements to be a firm believer in spiritual revelation and personal inspiration4 ,the second form of revelation1 the more religious1 he said1 is that which leads to the manifestation of our ,lord4 ,it was introduced with ,abraham1 slow but forward looking and omniscient1 for humanity was lost without it4 ,now begins the most astonishing activity of ,god's revelation4 ,abraham's race and the peoples developing from it1 regard faith in one ,god as their holiest possession1 and it follows1 hold fast to it with iron-like consistency4 ,it was the direct intervention of ,god that caused the rejuvenation of ,his people through centuries1 till1 the ,messiah1 heralded by prophets and psalmists1 finally appeared1 the greatest revelation of ,god in the world1 for ,he appeared in the ,son ,himself4 ,christ is ,god--,god in human form4 ,he redeemed us1 and inspires and entices us to follow ,him4 ,we feel ,his fire burning in us4 ,his sympathy strengthens us4 ,his discontent destroys us4 ,but also ,his intercession saves us4 ,conscious of victory1 building solely upon ,his word1 we go through labor1 ridicule sorrow1 misery and death1 for we have in ,him ,god's revealed word4 ,that is my view of these matters4 ,it is to me self-evident that the ,old ,testament contains many sections which are of a purely human and historical nature and are not ,god's revealed word4 ,these are merely historical descriptions of incidents of all kinds which happen in the political1 religious1 moral and intellectual life of this people4 ,this letter of ,emperor ,william was in reply to ,prof4 ,delitzsch1 who contended that ,moses and the ,israelites got their laws and religion from the ,babylonians4 ,the recent discoveries in ,asia ,minor seem to refute ,delitzsch1 especially those at ,nippur4 ,nippur is situated between the ,euphrates and ,tigris in ,babylonia4 ,it is one of the oldest towns spoken of in the ,scriptures4 ,the famous temple1 library and school for priests cover an area of thirteen acres1 and are pronounced the most far-reaching archeological discoveries of the century4 ,only about one-twelfth part of the library has been uncovered1 out of which over twenty thousand cuneiform tablets and fragments have been obtained belonging to the era three thousand years before ,abraham1 or nearly six thousand years before our time4 ,these show strong evidence of civilization and culture4 ,there have been found evidences that freehand drawing1 clay-modeling and sculpture were taught4 ,there were found works of reference1 scientific treatises1 and various technical volumes on astronomical and religious subjects4 ,these discoveries show the knowledge and culture that existed in the days of ,abraham1 and are a powerful demonstration of the unshaken truth of ,old ,testament prophesies4 ,prof4 ,hilprecht1 who made these excavations and discoveries1 says3 ,as the attempt has recently been made to trace the pure ,monotheism of ,israel to ,babylonian sources1 ,i am bound to declare this an absolute impossibility1 on my basis of fourteen years' researches in ,babylonian cuneiform inscriptions4 ,the faith of ,god's chosen people is3 ',hear1 ,o ,israel6 the ,lord our ,god is one ,lord1' and this faith could never proceed from the ,babylonian mountain of gods--that charnel-house full of corruption and dead men's bones4 ,the fact is1 as far as ,i am able to judge1 every recent discovery of science tends to sustain the essential truths of the ,bible1 and confirm the religious concept4 ,those who think that religion is losing its power should remember that thousands of converts are added to the churches daily1 and fifteen church buildings on an average are erected every day in the ,united ,states alone4 ,and there are besides thousands of persons1 like myself1 of a thoughtful1 religious nature who are not members of any religious order4 ,scientists should omit from their works all spirit of antagonism to religious faith4 ,such antagonism impairs the usefulness of their works1 and is an offence against public morals1 public security1 and man's aesthetic nature and psychic advancement4 ,religion has helped to develop the spiritual life of the race1 and is the anchor of all good society1 good government and exemplary conduct in man4 ,the religious faith and even superstitions which some scientists rail at with such vehemence was a necessary phase of human history and experience to lift the human race to a higher plane of spiritual power4 ,science has passed through the same phases of credulity and superstition4 ,whiskey1 wines1 and intoxicants once had their useful phase in arousing the sluggish brains of our half-civilized ancestors to higher realms of thought and perception4 ,so1 what now seem the most absurd superstitions once had their usefulness in deterring men from crime and causing them to lead better lives4 ,the dread of physical punishment hereafter1 and the fear of a hell and a devil that never existed1 had a salutary effect on countless millions of the past which no moral persuasion or scientific arguments could have reached4 ,but all intoxicants with their blighting curse1 and all superstitions with their blinding ignorance have had their day of usefulness and should be relegated to the dark tomb of oblivion4 ,the solemn cathedral1 the soft-toned organ1 the mellow light from colored windows1 the awe and anxious faith1 have added soul development and psychic power to human life4 ,the mother who bowed in prayer1 the father who assembled his children around the family altar1 have added spiritual power to themselves and their posterity for all generations4 ,and it is the honest1 home-loving1 ,god-fearing and praying mothers and fathers of the past three centuries that have made the ,anglo-,saxon race and the civilization of to-day what it is4 ,the ,bible says truly1 to be spiritually minded is life1 and to be worldly minded is to lead us back to pagan selfishness1 when cruelty was a pastime1 and poisoning and assassination were fine arts4 ,this book of ,god we call man is bound in imperishable atoms that dissolve into-viewless ether1 and are tied together with electric bands as pliable as silk and as invisible as thought1 and the spirit they enwrap is as strong and enduring as omnipotence4 ,the statement is often made to the prejudice of religion that religion has been the cause of most of the wars and cruelties that have desolated the earth since the commencement of human history4 ,this is unjust and misleading4 ,until the formation of our government1 church and state were united among all nations and politics and religion were blended1 and a purely religious war was impossible4 ,as to the miracles of the ,new ,testament1 if they were all discredited the immaculate teachings of the gospel would remain4 ,the peculiar glory of ,christianity is the regeneration it brings to man1 putting him under the law of love2 and without miracles we would still have vital1 uplifting1 heaven-inspiring ,christianity4 ,as to the infallibility of science1 she has nothing to boast of over religion4 ,science has been groping her devious way from colossal blunder to blunder1 and championing as many absurdities and superstitions through all the ages as ever the religious devotee dreamed or the religious concept propagated4 ,she is still teaching some of the grossest superstitions and incredible absurdities4 ,science has received nearly every fundamental truth from religion1 and is at last steadily developing and proving the true religious concept of the universe1 in showing that all visible things are the product of invisible spirit1 invisible law and invisible force2 that the spiritual and invisible world is the supreme reality2 that its ,creator and ,ruler must be the ,father of ,spirits1 and virtually re-echoes the words of ,christ1 ,god is a ,spirit1 and they that worship ,him must worship ,him in spirit and in truth4 ,it teaches universal love1 helpfulness and equality1 which was demonstrated by ,christ when ,he called for water and washed the feet of those who worshiped ,him4 ,this was ,his last object lesson1 so little understood in ,christian philosophy4 ,but ethical and psychic science have lifted it to be the glory of perfected civilization1 and endorsed the exalted truth1 ,let him that is greatest among you be the servant of all4 ,all knowledge and truth are in a sense inspired revelation from ,god1 whether written in nature or the human soul4 ,there is scientific revelation written in physical facts and recognized by the senses2 there is ,god's revelation written in the secret conscience and reasoning power of man1 and they naturally sustain and supplement each other and the revealed truths of the ,scriptures4 ,it may be that the first chapter of ,genesis was not intended so much as an infallible record of the divine order in the creation of the world as to teach the vastly higher spiritual truth that creation is the work of ,god1 thus leading men to ,his worship and away from the lower worship of sun1 moon and heathen deities4 ,the mechanical conception as to the mode of inspiration and revelation tends to give way before a larger conception of the process--that ,god speaks to man through the experience of the events of life4 ,thus revelation becomes a living process1 and all later history may become a commentary on sacred history1 renewing and confirming the primal utterance of ,god to the soul of man4 ,the reign of law1 which was little understood by the ancients1 is now universally accepted and endows the human race with new powers4 ,it also gives new conceptions of the intelligibility of nature1 which is but a modern scientific term for religion or the reliance on the will and wisdom of ,creative ,deity4 ,herbert ,spencer's persistency of matter and force is but another expression of the reign of law4 ,and as law is the result of an intelligent spiritual concept and impulse1 the lawmaker of the universe must be a supreme1 intelligent1 spiritual personality4 ,and the reasoning1 intelligent soul of man1 by discovering the immutable laws of nature1 which are the unchanging decrees of ,deity1 has learned the art of controlling the great powers of nature for the use and convenience of man4 ,but in the ultimate analysis it is ,god's spirit and will that control the universe1 and man's spirit and will which evolve the art of controlling1 and masters the great powers of nature4 ,therefore1 we must look to the powers of the mind to subdue all other powers4 ,this it does by constructive reason and vitalizing faith4 ,by constructive reason it builds bridges1 tunnels mountains1 operates engines1 telegraphs and all the appliances of modern commerce4 ,by vitalizing faith it renews and strengthens body and soul1 and seems to work the miracles of ,god4 ,prof4 ,osler says3 ,faith is a most precious commodity4 ,faith is the great lever of life4 ,without it man can do nothing1 with it all things are possible4 ,galen says3 ',confidence and hope do more good than physic4' ,faith in the gods or the saints cures one1 faith in little pills another1 hypnotic suggestion a third1 and faith in a plain1 common doctor a fourth4 ,in all ages the prayer of faith has healed the sick1 and the mental attitude of the suppliant seems to be of more consequence than the powers to which the prayer is addressed4 ,miracles1 says criticism1 belong to an age of ignorance4 ,with the dawn of knowledge they diminish4 ,in its meridian light they disappear4 ,the ,jews were eminently addicted to belief in miracles4 ,with them there was satanic miracle as well as divine4 ,they believed in persons being possessed by devils1 and all efforts to disentangle them from the demoniac miracles and to resolve them into cures of lunacy by moral influence was vain4 ,comte totally discards belief in ,god1 but1 feeling the need of a religion1 substituted the worship of humanity4 ,humanity is an abstraction by itself1 but combined with the ,christianity and the monotheism of the ,new ,testament1 it is the perfection of ethics and religion4 ,they who preach the religion of humanity1 morality and true socialism will find it more perfectly taught in the ,new ,testament1 with nobler incentives and higher inspiration and spirituality1 than elsewhere in human history4 ,and it accords more perfectly with the book of truth1 written in the reason and conscience of man4 ,prof4 ,c4 ,f4 ,kent of ,yale1 says3 ,there is no conflict between science and religion4 ,the ,bible does not pretend to teach science1 but does speak with authority with regard to questions of morality and religion4 ,the pathetic fact is that the fundamental spiritual truths the ,bible narratives seek to teach are lost sight of in the contention for historical accuracy1 which was entirely secondary with the authors4 ,the prophets used ancient narratives1 the same as ,jesus used parables1 to illustrate spiritual truths4 ,dr4 ,beet1 of ,wesleyan ,college1 ,england1 denies that either the endless suffering or the extinction of the wicked is taught in the ,scriptures1 and says3 ,very few ,wesleyans now adhere to ,wesley's teachings concerning it4 ,the essential truths of the ,bible are just as true without miracles as with them4 ,christ said a wicked and perverse generation seeketh a sign or miracle4 ,truth is inherently true and needs no miracle to confirm it4 ,and the tendency of all ancient writers1 as well as those of the ,bible1 to exaggerate natural phenomena into wonders and miracles cause many to discard the great truths of revelation4 ,i undertook to show how ,joshua might have mistaken a luminous aurora borealis for the sun standing still4 ,and ,i am inclined to think that a mistranslation is responsible for the story of ,jonah and the big fish4 ,somewhere in ancient history ,i got the idea that the pirate boats in ancient times were called1 the big fish4 ,if so ,jonah might have been captured by the pirates after being thrown overboard1 and put in the hole or belly of the boat1 and after three days1 seeing no prospect of a ransom1 was thrown onto the land4 ,god may have prepared the pirates and boat for this purpose and a miracle would be unnecessary4 ,the writers of that day would say ,jonah was swallowed by the big fish1 meaning the pirates captured him1 and centuries afterwards the translators would make a great miracle out of it4 ,take many of our modern expressions1 as1 the ship and sailors went to ,davy ,jones' locker2 if centuries hence our language should become obsolete1 the translators would say1 the ship was in a great storm1 and it and the sailors were all saved by running into ,david ,jones' big chest4 ,that would be a literal translation1 but would not state the facts4 ,take another illustration4 ,in the war1 a company was lost in the woods and was gobbled up by the enemy4 ,a future translation would read1 a company of soldiers was lost in the woods and a ferocious turkey gobbled and eat them all up4 ,either of these would make a greater miracle than ,jonah and the whale4 ,i mention this to show how easy it is to mistranslate an obsolete language1 especially an ,oriental language1 always so full of figures of speech1 hyperbole and parables4 ,there is the wonderful capture of the city of ,jericho4 ,when the ,israelites1 under ,joshua1 marched round it seven times1 and blew seven long blasts on their ramshorns1 the walls fell4 ,now1 the spies may have reported to ,joshua the weakness of the walls1 and1 by marching round them seven times1 caused the people of the city to crowd onto the walls1 and the vibrations of the horns caused them to fall4 ,we know that the vibrations of thunder or cannon or any loud noise has caused many a house to fall1 and would endanger any weak building or wall4 ,i believe that if every miracle in the ,bible was disapproved or shown to be a natural event it would not destroy or affect a single important truth it teaches4 ,while ,i believe the brave and honest man will refuse happiness at the expense of truth1 ,i must partly agree with ,luckey1 the historian1 who says we owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge2 that superstition appeals to our hopes as well as our fears1 and often meets and gratifies the inmost longings of our heart4 ,imagination1 which is altogether constructive1 contributes more to our happiness than reason1 which is mainly critical and destructive4 ,he says3 ,the rude charm clasped by the savage1 the sacred picture protecting the poor man's cottage1 can bestow a more real consolation in the darkest hour of human suffering than the grandest theories of philosophy4 ,this was more distinctly true in the early history of the human race1 when ignorance and superstitious wonder dominated all minds and all important events were deemed supernatural or miraculous4 ,take the superstitious worship of the ,virgin ,mary2 its beneficence to the human race is beyond all human calculation4 ,it helped to elevate and spiritualize woman and lift her offspring and the generations of men to a higher spiritual plane4 ,romantic love between the sexes was never known1 so history teaches us1 until the worship of the ,virgin ,mary became universal throughout ,christendom4 ,no such sentiment existed in ,greece or ,rome or any pagan country1 and none exists now in any pagan or ,mohammedan land4 ,there women are still treated as chattels and denied a soul4 ,we should remember that for man all religions were instituted1 all books written1 all science formulated1 all literature ennobled1 all progress inspired1 and all art made beautiful4 ,human reason1 the perfection of the universe and the words of revelation all teach-- ,man's soul is part of ,deity1 and as immortal as its ,creative ,god4 ,death is but a shadow across its path of destiny4 ,to the soul there is no grave2 the tomb cannot grasp its viewless form2 ,earth is but its birthplace--the cradle of its infancy-- ,where it drops its cumbrous wrappings for the wings of immortality4 ,time1 the vestibule of eternity1 is where it points its course and takes its leap ,into the vast unknown toward the ,infinite and ,eternal1 and sweeps ,out upon its endless progression in knowledge and perfection through immensity of worlds4 ,,chapter ,,xiii ,,love ,,is ,,the ,,electric ,,law ,,of ,,life3 ,,all ,,that ,,live ,,must ,,come ,,from ,,loving ,god is love1 and love is the law of life and the creative force of the universe4 ,the love of ,god in the soul is the substance and life of all religion4 ,the love of fellow-man in the heart is the foundation of all human kindness and social ethics4 ,as ,dante followed his beloved ,beatrice from world to world until he found her at the gates of ,paradise1 so we must follow our loves and ideals through all the tragic incidents of existence until we find them as guardian angels at the gates of celestial glory and creative perfection4 ,a noble character1 a worthy and useful life of service to others is the chief purpose and crowning glory of all earthly existence4 ,wealth and fame are mere incidents in the fleeting drama of human experience4 ,all true greatness is in the beauty and grandeur of the soul4 ,it must come from within2 external manifestations may shadow it forth1 but cannot produce it4 ,all true gentleness and kindness are a reflex of the inner life of love and willing service4 ,we live in the atmosphere that our thoughts and spirits breathe around us1 and by opening the windows and doors of our soul to love we inhale the perfume from other souls1 and the breath of life from ,deity ,himself4 ,thoughts are forces1 and through them we have creative power2 but they must be winged with love to manifest divine energy4 ,every act is preceded and given birth to by a thought1 the act repeated forms the habit1 the habit determines the character1 and character determines the life and destiny4 ,everything in the material universe has its origin first in the spiritual concept or thought1 and from this it takes its form4 ,the spoken word and the mighty deed spring from the potency of living thought1 and life is a tireless swimmer in an ocean of thought4 ,thought is the conscious energy of the soul1 the subtle1 invisible force of the reasoning1 resistless mind1 and1 to be potent with life1 must be winged with love4 ,thought is everywhere and surrounds us like the atmosphere we breathe4 ,when we want a thought we should reach up into the air for it with the caressing hand of love1 and it will come like an invisible messenger from spirit land4 ,we should seek thought and wisdom in the intellectual zenith of our own minds1 and not from mediums or clairvoyants1 for they have never revealed any great truths4 ,thus our great poets1 sages and prophets have reached up into the spiritual altitudes and gathered wisdom and truth as the stars are gathered and sparkle in the glittering mirror of night's far off and measureless spaces4 ,they come with the speed of light from all suns and spheres in the jewelled crown of ,god's eternal expanse of love and life1 they whisper wonderful things to the listening spirit in the silent chambers of the dreaming soul1 and they come like angel faces in the visions of night and paint with the flaming finger of anticipated joy the glorious beatitudes of immortality and love4 ,there is the science of thought which brings wisdom and success1 and the science of love that brings peace and joy4 ,it is a beautiful thing to live4 ,life is the fine art of the soul1 the literature of the spirit1 where it writes its hopes and achievements4 ,it is the theatre of all possibilities here and hereafter1 but its atmosphere must be magnetic with love and faith where the spiritual forces may battle and exert their powers4 ,we must first love all the world if we would have the world love us4 ,only what comes from the heart can reach the heart of the world1 for mankind will care little for us unless we show we care for mankind4 ,but what man earnestly desires and persistently wills and strives to accomplish through love will finally be attained4 ,love and goodness are all-powerful and will eventually conquer4 ,the first cause of all discontent1 weariness1 bitterness and vanity of life is selfishness4 ,it is the corrosive element that rusts away all the pure gold of energy and aspiration4 ,it is as amazing as sad that we burden ourselves with selfish strivings that are of no consequence1 and miss the gladness and exhilaration of living4 ,for no life is successful unless it is radiant with love and usefulness4 ,emerson says3 ,life is an ecstasy and nothing else is really worth living4 ,happiness is not determined by a bank account or the flattering incense of praise1 but is a mental and spiritual condition4 ,ye who seek liberty know this2 it can only be found in the liberty of your fellow men4 ,ye who seek happiness know this2 ye can only find it in the happiness of others1 and if you desire to be happy you must make others happy4 ,this is ,god's eternal law of compensation--of altruism--love to others2 what you do unto others you do unto yourself4 ,look upon thy fellow man with wisdom and thou shalt have love4 ,feel for thy fellow man with love and thou shalt have wisdom1 and1 having wisdom and love1 thou hast ,god and heaven in thy heart4 ,these are the golden rules of the ,new ,testament1 written in the reason1 conscience and experience of men1 as ,god's living book of wisdom and truth4 ,every action has its rebound or echo4 ,others will return your love or hate as the mountains return an echo1 and by the same law4 ,whatsoever a man soweth1 that shall he also reap4 ,the hate you send forth will return to you1 the love you gave will come back to you1 for it is an immortal part of you and a part of ,omnipotent ,deity4 ,if you are sick1 love6 ,if you are envied1 hated and slandered1 love6 ,if age and death steal upon you1 love6 ,for ,god is love1 and heaven is love1 and love is life eternal4 ,this is ,god's law1 this is the law of man's nature1 the law of the ,new ,testament1 the law of love and life1 the law of the universe4 ,whatever may be man's misfortune1 if he has a love of humanity1 a love of literature1 art or nature1 he has resources of happiness that nothing can remove4 ,with these the poor man is rich1 and the rich man can never be poor4 ,for each by love has overcome the world4 ,therefore believe and love1 and hold fast to the conviction that the forces of life are divine and eternal1 and their laws written in the reason and consciences of men1 and that death is only a transition from our world to another of greater beauty and perfection4 ,the inadequacy of earth-life to satisfy the soul's capabilities is evidence that its career must continue hereafter in brighter worlds of celestial love and destiny4 ,it is said the common epitaph of humanity is1 ,they mean well1 try a little and fail much4 ,but if love is their guiding star and they obey the dictates of their reason and conscious duty1 their lives cannot be failures4 ,most of our troubles and cares1 like echoes1 do not exist until we call them forth4 ,but sweet1 subdued sorrow1 and the tears of love and sympathy that spring from the generous heart to the soulful eyes1 are like heavenly dews1 and promote the growth of the soul4 ,they should not be classed among the depressing trials4 ,neither should friendly rivalry1 or laudable ambition to excel1 be deemed trying aggressions1 for they are beneficial phases of growth4 ,humanity should emancipate itself by hitching its chariot to the star of love1 and switching the current of human energy from the circuit of worry and anger1 and connecting it with the motors of good thoughts and noble deeds4 ,all men should realize the fact that anger turns the natural juices of the body into poison as the vibrations of thunder sour the sweetest milk4 ,and every fit of anger is an electric trip-hammer that drives a nail into the coffin of life and shortens human existence4 ,all nature reveals the law of natural selection and survival of the fittest1 and demands in man the highest perfection of love1 beauty and self-development4 ,the culture of the divine essence of the soul1 love and ideality will eventually emancipate1 exalt and ennoble human life4 ,love is the beginning of life4 ,love is the creative agency of all human and animal existence4 ,even the vegetable world1 trees1 shrubs and flowers have their dual1 sexual amities1 and their male and female blending in the love of unity and the unity of love1 and thereby propagate and continue their species in the ever changing cycles of life4 ,all that live must come from loving4 ,the positive and negative circles of electric and spiritual forces in man and woman must be broken and reunited in a combined circle of dual vitalizing growth and power before ,god's first command1 be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth1 can be consummated4 ,god has so organized the universe that love brings life and continues it1 while hatred checks all the sweet gushing juices and joys of hope and life1 and1 brings death and darkness4 ,love commands the electric creative forces of human life as ,god commands them in the boundless heavens4 ,love is the elemental part of ,god1 and the godly part of man4 ,and he whose soul is diffused with love is enwrapt in the effulgent drapery of ,divine goodness and joy4 ,woman by ,divine right and the ,supreme decrees of destiny is the ministering angel of love and life1 and is next to ,god the ,creator and ,preserver of the human race4 ,all that live must come from loving ,in the hallowed name of wife1 ,god has set the bounds of being ,and the joy of giving life4 ,some very strong writers believe man's body is the product of the thought and mental force of his progenitors4 ,if so1 the mental impulse of love1 and even its lower form of animal passion1 is the begetter of the human race4 ,mrs4 ,josephine ,barton1 in ,mothers of the ,living1 declares1 ,the history of flesh has its beginning in the male atom1 and exists as an unembodied idea in mental solution4 ,thinking results in ideas and ideas crystallize into form4 ,thoughts are the blocks out of which children are made4 ,the physical gets its breath of life from the mental or spiritual4 ,the first avenue of development after its appearance in form in the male parent is the daily and hourly thinking1 exercised in the mentality of the parent4 ,these atoms1 though microscopic1 are the brain and spinal cord of the atom man4 ,the product of the male element is judgment and will1 of the female love and intuition2 so the atom man crystallizes only the seat1 brain and nerve faculties4 ,this structure--temple of the soul--like the acorn1 has inherent within it growth and fruit possibilities4 ,she arouses useful thought and adds with force and eloquence1 ,all men are1 by their daily thinking1 moulding the brain and spinal cords of future men4 ,o men of earth6 what qualities are you weaving in your thread of thought8 ,of what substance are you moulding the grand army of the future race8 ,are you endowing them with the intellect of true manhood1 or crystallizing into atoms all manner of distorted brains8 ,our bodies are bulletins of our thoughts1 and the male atom is the microscopic beginning of childlife1 and when expelled from the loins of their progenitors1 become the 'living souls' that people the cities and the plains4 ,the human atom thus formed1 when imparted into the custody of the mother1 is ready for the breath of life which the mother mind1 by love and intuition will breathe into it4 ,the temple for a human soul is thus constructed4 ,the nourishment then given is as pliant to thought as the ocean to a raindrop1 and prenatal education is most important4 ,o splendid fact6 ,be lifted up1 thou expectant mother of the living6 ,you are at liberty to take the helm of possibility and steer for the sunlit isles where all sons are gods4 ,the mother should be herself what she would have her child be4 ,she should affirm and reiterate4 ',i am the heir of all wisdom1 the expression of all beauty1 the revelation of love and truth1 the life proclamation of the ,eternal4 ,i am serene1 radiant1 valiant1 loving1 aspiring1 knowing4' ,then will all conceptions be immaculate and all human life glorious and divine4 ,i maintain that woman is the prototype of the godmother of the universe1 who is the third person of the ,trinity1 known as the ,holy ,ghost or ,comforter4 ,the ,trinity of the theologians--three persons in one--is contrary to all human reason and logic4 ,it contradicts every type of being in universal creation1 and would be a monstrosity in natural law and creative experience4 ,it defies all analysis and subverts all law of animate and inanimate nature4 ,god never thus contradicts himself1 his own laws1 and his created universe1 or the book of nature and man's reason2 and no such doctrine is taught in the ,new ,testament1 when analyzed by a true construction of language4 ,to deny the ,trinity was a crime punished by death a century or two ago in ,england2 and ecclesiastical authority there and elsewhere prescribed what man should believe for centuries1 or receive the punishment prescribed by law or the ,inquisition4 ,until recent times men were not allowed to think for themselves4 ,but reason and truth1 written in the soul of man by the finger of ,deity1 will assert its divine right to correct the blunders of ignorance and superstition4 ,and as it was many ages before the fatherhood of ,god and the brotherhood of man was discovered and recognized1 so it required modern intelligence and reason to place woman in her true and ,god-given position2 and recognize in ,god the ,father1 ,god the ,son and ,god the ,mother1 the same natural trinity in heaven as exists on earth in father1 mother and child4 ,the book of nature1 and the book of man's reason asserts there can be no father or son without a mother4 ,they would be an anomaly in nature1 unthinkable and impossible1 and if there is a ,father and ,son in heaven1 there is a ,divine ,mother1 who has always been there as the companion and counselor of ,deity1 and is also the ,divine ,comforter of all human souls4 ,and if there is sex in all nature1 it is reasonable to believe there is sex in the family of ,deity4 ,when ,christ said1 ,i and my ,father are one1 he meant one in purpose and spirit4 ,up to the recent centuries1 woman was the chattel slave of man1 kept in ignorance and degradation1 and deemed inferior to man1 and the past ages would not recognize her divinity1 or her equality with man4 ,but now she stands on a level with man1 heart to heart1 and brain to brain1 and every true man offers her the tribute of love and reverence1 and recognizes that in all the realms of earth and stars there is no being so worthy of love and worship1 next to ,deity1 as the mothers of men4 ,they are the saviors of mankind1 whose vicarious suffering has brought forth and redeemed the generations of men4 ,they are the trees of life in ,god's earthly garden1 whose branches1 ladened with the fruits of love1 have called forth the mysterious blossoms of being to bloom in the fields of time and people the land of immortal spirits4 ,the beginning of civilization was when the mother bid the rude men of the forest and hill to build the needed shelter in grove or cave to protect her and her helpless offspring4 ,and from that simple shelter or thatched-roofed hut has sprung the vine-clad cottage1 and the marble palace1 and the family roof-tree of every house in every land4 ,it was the mothers of men who filled up the broken ranks of war1 and brought peace1 and wove garments1 and refined and civilized man and taught him the arts and commerce of civilized life4 ,and could the mothers control the destinies of nations1 their loving hearts would banish war1 and peace would be universal4 ,and the most precious heritage of every nation on the green earth is the nobility of its mothers1 for without noble mothers1 it can have no worthy and manly men4 ,all nations should recognize this fact1 and instead of giving pensions to those who destroy life1 they should give them to those who multiply and replenish it1 and make a nation worthy of existence and fame4 ,and ,god will surely bestow on the mothers of men a crown of eternal glory for every life added to his empire and domain of deathless eternities4 ,the momentous question arises in this busy age of travel and pleasure1 when so many seek the luxurious ease of opulence and avoid as far as possible all cares and responsibility1 ,will the emancipated womanhood of our land deny the law of love and life1 written in the heart and conscience of all sentient beings1 and decline the angelic ministrations of maternity8 ,will they refuse to join in the economy of ,god and nature1 or leave this high and holy vocation to the ignorant and superstitious of our foreign element8 ,if so1 the citizenship of our beloved nation will degenerate with each succeeding generation4 ,will the modern woman seek social pleasures and the flattery of passing admiration in lieu of home life and maternity1 and be satisfied to flutter as a gaudy butterfly of fashion8 ,will her womanly heart find the prattle of a baby voice and the pressure of its chubby hands upon her smiling face1 as it crows in her loving arms1 a truer1 sweeter pleasure than the social triumphs of a few fleeting seasons8 ,a joyous child brings more pleasure to a household than a marble palace with mahogany furniture and an automobile4 ,this is the all-important woman question of the future--the question of race suicide4 ,for the entrance of woman into all the vocations of business life1 the tendency to avoid domestic cares1 the laxity of the marriage vows1 together with the elimination of homes for boarding houses1 and the prevalence of divorces1 makes it a serious question for the future4 ,already this pressing vital question causes the wisest men of ,france to tremble for the future of their race and nation1 for its shrinking population is forcing it from the rank of a first-class power to the humiliation of weakness and decay4 ,will they listen to ,france's ,macedonian call and the law of love and life written in their womanly natures8 ,humanity of the past and present is not final4 ,it shall not cease at the present development4 ,human society was never static4 ,we are at the beginning of the greatest changes in human history4 ,there will be no shock1 but the transforming1 silent touch of universal evolution1 whose voice speaks thus3 ,we are the creatures of twilight1 but out of our minds and the lineage of our minds will spring minds that will reach forward fearlessly4 ,a day will come--one day in the unending succession of days--when the beings now latent in our thoughts1 hidden in our loins1 shall stand on this earth as on a footstool1 and they shall laugh and reach out their hands among the stars4 ,it is said that the flower which opens and smiles upon the brink of an abyss is like love1 which lives also between two eternities4 ,it is the most human of the passions and at the same time the most divine4 ,it is the most intimate and the most ethereal2 it guides the poet when he scales the skies and lifts the soul to celestial raptures4 ,the gifted and the common mind are alike troubled1 agitated and exalted by this divinity who evokes their silent passions and stirs their slumbering fancy4 ,many animals change their form and color in the season of love1 and man is similarly affected in his psychic nature4 ,every human and divine element responds to the witchery of the god of love4 ,and new colors in thought and character appear1 and the glowing eye glistens with changing smile or tear1 like dewdrops on the jewelled face of morn4 ,the first touch of poetry lights up the prosy brain1 the first ambitions1 brilliant hopes1 struggles1 flashes of genius1 and heroic resolves spring forth like living phantoms at the magic power of this matchless magician of the soul4 ,woman1 far more than man1 is reared in the regions of love1 and has more leisure to reflect on the secret movements of her heart1 and to gather the wisdom and beauty of love and distill it as the rarest perfume of life4 ,love is woman's crown of divinity4 ,love lifts man to his highest capabilities1 noblest enterprises and loftiest ideals1 and makes him monarch of a larger and more beautiful world4 ,the history of man shows how gross and abject natures are transformed by love4 ,how dull and stolid minds have been guided by it to paths of honor and glory4 ,it is said that fame and science should guard themselves from love as from a dangerous enemy1 and that to be a great man one must love their art alone and be wed only to their great ambitions4 ,ah6 but for one genius killed by love1 a hundred owe to it all their greatness and inspiration and the moving force of life1 and bless it as superior to fame and sweeter than all the laurels of victory or the plaudits of success4 ,all the glory of art and science1 of thrones and crowns1 is inspired by the love of woman4 ,this was openly proclaimed in the heroic and chivalrous ages and should still be held in grateful remembrance4 ,if love does not always elevate and refine and work the miracles of its magic1 it is because men lower their ideals of women and love4 ,woman has a stronger thirst after the ideal1 a more refined sensibility1 exquisite fancy and poetic nature and aids man to mount to loftier actions and ideals4 ,in a beautiful picture1 ,dante is below1 ,beatrice above2 he looks at her and is thus inspired1 while her eyes1 fixed upon him1 seem to say3 ,upward1 upward2 it is thither we must go together6 ,it is said nothing is so irresistible as the enthusiasm of woman4 ,without reason for believing1 without strength for hope1 sustained solely by love1 she is always full of faith for the great and beautiful things1 and with sublime imprudence cries1 ,forward1 forward6 and drags man to the most difficult summits of success4 ,a wise man says3 ,in the great and little things1 after having consulted science and art1 experience and imagination1 after having read history and human hearts1 also always consult the woman you love1 whether it be a question of a book or a law1 or a work of art1 or of business1 industry or poetry4 ,she will certainly have something new to tell you4 ,ambition often fails to elevate men1 they die without having attained their full measure of power4 ,only the love of woman could have given them the energy which ambition and self-love were powerless to bestow4 ,in the past ages the world prated much about aristocracy4 ,there have been four kinds of aristocracy in the world's history4 ,there has been the aristocracy of muscle--the supremacy of brute force4 ,this was followed by the aristocracy of blood or family pedigree1 by which one claimed by inheritance superiority over others4 ,then came the aristocracy of wealth1 which prevails in our day1 whereby those who obtain fortunes by birth1 accident1 parsimony1 force or fraud1 claim superiority over others less sordid or less fortunate4 ,but the true and only aristocracy that ever has or ever will exist in the human race is the aristocracy of love and goodness4 ,there is nothing so kingly as kindness1 nothing so royal as truth1 and nothing so godlike as love4 ,the aristocracy of muscle has brought misery and distress and cursed the world with cruelty and oppression2 the aristocracies of blood and wealth have often brought sorrow to their possessors1 and proved a rope of sand1 a broken reed1 a ,jonas' gourd that faded in a night4 ,but the aristocracy of love and goodness is ,god's aristocracy1 and belongs to the society of heaven4 ,it is a part of the family of ,deity1 and possesses the wealth of the universe4 ,it is the pride of celestial hosts1 and the joy and blessing of transient mortality4 ,the humblest of earth may join this aristocracy of love and goodness and be a prince and king in his own right1 by royal prerogative as eternal and enduring as the earth and stars4 ,thus we find that love is the spiritual and electric law of life1 and the crown-jewel of the universe2 that it gives life and inspires it2 that all the creations and forces of nature are dual and sexual1 with love as the supreme sovereign of all life and destiny4 ,magnificent are the pyramids of ,cheops1 but while they and the groves of gods and pillars at ,karnac were being reared for a tyrannous nobility and priesthood1 twenty thousand common men agonized and died in the quarries4 ,beautiful was ,athens1 ,the ,city of the ,violet ,crown1 when the sunlight flashed from the ,parthenon2 but ,aristides was banished because he was just1 and ,socrates was murdered because he taught the oneness of ,god4 ,rome sat on her seven hills and ruled the world2 but men were butchered in the arena to make a ,roman holiday1 and at night ,christians were burned for torches to light up ,nero's golden house4 ,all this was because love had not exalted the ideals and energized the wills of men4 ,in the middle ages the sound of the chisels carving the marble dreams of ,michael ,angelo was drowned by the shrieks of victims of the ,inquisition2 and later in ,england1 villains and serfs1 even after ,magna ,charta1 were hanged for stealing five shillings4 ,in our own land ,cotton ,mather tells us men were crushed by heavy stones upon their breast1 as punishment for petty offenses1 and witches swung in the breezes of ,salem2 and less than fifty years ago human slavery was sanctioned by law4 ,all these horrors and the cruelty of the world have been because men have not let love illumine the soul and energize the heart of humanity4 ,to-day all this is changed4 ,the gis of the law protects the humblest citizen1 and the fate of nations is decided not by a ,hannibal or a ,charlemagne1 but in legislative halls and courts of justice4 ,and all men may work and hope1 for fame is waiting with willing laurels for souls aglow with the fires of love and genius1 who are destined to be torch bearers along the highways of heavenly harmonies4 ,the heaven of all the heavens above1 ,the god of all the gods is ,love4 ,carlisle1 that rugged old thinker1 declared that man should imitate his maker and ,create1 create1 create4 ,this is the chief object of life4 ,not alone in the propagation of his race1 but to build houses and temples1 erect monuments1 write books1 fertilize deserts1 and cause the earth to blossom with new flowers of fragrance1 and new thoughts of beauty4 ,in order to thus glorify life and make it a divine ecstacy1 and a stepping-stone to celestial worlds1 love must be the guiding star1 and will the creative-impulse4 ,these two are the sovereign forces of the universe in man and ,deity2 and uphold and control all others4 ,therefore man should make love and truth his ideals1 and will his sceptre of power1 and with each rising sun proclaim3 ,these two things should no man forget or lose ,or sacrifice3 his will and his ideals4 ,these two things are the man4 ,in leaving them ,behind him in the dust of broken dreams ,he leaves himself ,his nature is usurped4 ,the lesson of all greatness is to be ,that which we are--out to our farthest bounds4 ,to lift the high within us higher still-- ,to delve our depths with a profounder depth-- ,to push the near horizon of our minds ,out past immediate things to ultimate4 ,,chapter ,,xiv ,,jacob',s ,,ladder ,,is ,,the ,,electric ,,pathway ,,between ,,suns ,,and ,,planets ,i contend in my previous books that electricity and not gravity is the one fundamental form of energy from which all other forms1 such as light1 heat1 vital force1 physical life and so-called gravitation are derived by transformation4 ,that electric energy is the one evolving creative force in the physical universe1 back of which is the directing1 intelligent1 spiritual power of ,deity1 who has made all visible things of one matter--the invisible atom1 controlled by one invisible power1 electricity1 after one unchanging pattern--the electro-magnet4 ,this necessarily teaches that the sun is not hot1 that all heat1 light and vital force is produced by the contact of positive and negative electricity in the dense atmospheric cushion of suns and planets1 where alone it is needed for vegetable and animal life4 ,all of which is produced by the positive electric currents of the sun coming in contact with the negative electricity of the planets1 just as two wires oppositely electrified and brought together produce the arc and incandescent electric light4 ,i contend that the suns are the self-luminous1 perfected worlds of the universe2 worlds like our world1 only larger and more prolific in life and power than the planetary worlds4 ,that they are the headquarters of ,deity1 and the future abode of man4 ,this leads to the reasonable scientific hypothesis that our all-life-giving sun is where ,christ ascended to1 when the ,disciples saw a cloud receive him out of their sight2 where ,elias was translated2 where ,paul was snatched up to the seventh heaven2 where ,saint ,john in the ,apochalyptic journey saw the new ,jerusalem--the ,city of ,god4 ,this wonderful city1 from scientific facts and analogy1 exists in the sun and could be no where else1 and seems to be so represented in ,revelations1 and its description is grander than all the romances of earth4 ,this gives the most reasonable scientific explanation of ,revelations and the eternal beatitudes of the ,christian's life everlasting1 while at the same time it recognizes the law of evolution1 and proclaims there is nothing supernatural in the universe4 ,i contend that the sun's photosphere is a brilliant1 globe-encircling aurora2 that the planets are the hatcheries of human souls1 and the suns the place of their maturity and perfection2 that all things are composed of atoms and electricity1 which are as invisible as the soul4 ,that the soul is an invisible atom of ,deity1 and1 like invisible atoms and electricity1 may pass to and from the sun4 ,in showing the terraced mountain on which the city in ,revelations was built accorded with the proportions of the sun as compared with the earth and moon1 a simpler illustration would be this3 ,the sun's diameter is #aaj times that of the earth1 and as the earth has mountains six miles high1 the sun should have them #aaj times higher1 which would be about #gjj miles in perpendicular height1 making about #a1bjj miles measuring the slope from the base to the apex4 ,or1 if the mountains in the sun are as high in proportion to diameter as those on the moon1 the mountains of the moon being three miles high1 and the sun's diameter being #djj times greater than the moon2 the mountains of the sun should be #abjj miles in perpendicular height4 ,up to the last few centuries all standards of measurement were indefinite4 ,the cubit1 fathom1 and foot all depended on the size of the man4 ,a furlong was originally a furrow in an ,english field1 and might be #cjj or #hjj feet in length4 ,all these measures have been made definite by law or custom since the ,bible was written4 ,but the word translated furlong was the ,greek word stadium1 which was the length of a ,greek foot race which was #ebj feet 7except in two instances72 while a present furlong1 the eighth of a mile1 is #ffj feet1 making in #ab1jjj furlongs a difference of about #cbj miles1 making ,john's wonderful city #a1ahj miles square4 ,the ancient furlong was about what ,i put it--the tenth of a mile4 ,critics should inform themselves before displaying their colossal lack of information4 ,i contend that over ninety per cent4 of the universe is invisible matter4 ,this invisible matter floats in all space and permeates all visible matter as water permeates a sponge4 ,all matter in its primary and elementary form is invisible1 and1 being invisible1 it partakes of the characteristics in this respect of invisible force and invisible spirit4 ,these three invisible entities constitute the universe1 its center and circumference1 its invisible realities1 its eternal foundation and limitless boundaries4 ,only one of these--matter--by a vast aggregation of atoms1 is converted from the invisible to the visible4 ,this universe was made from nothing--nothing visible1 nothing tangible1 nothing the human eye could see or the human finger could touch4 ,there was a time when the stars and planets1 suns and worlds were transparent ether1 as impalpable as the viewless air1 and scattered as star dust in the measureless void of space along the forgotten highways of the past eternities4 ,silence reigned profound in the pulseless regions of the air1 where1 motionless and dumb1 the atoms hung in dark and lifeless space4 ,there was nothing in all this universe--nothing but cold1 darkness and silence4 ,but these are the home of atoms1 the star-dust which ,deity had scattered by the breath of his power through the highways of space in the beginning of primeval creation4 ,while these were nothing to man1 they were the foundation stones of all created things4 ,this nothingness of space was the fallow ground of the universe and the formless shadow of suns and worlds4 ,it was a universe in solution as viewless as ether1 and as intangible as mind4 ,the electric energy of space was yet unstirred by the divine fiat or shook into vibrating force by the word of ,creative ,power4 ,other suns and worlds and a universe of universes shone forth in the realms of space when the ,creative ,word was spoken that lit this newer universe into being4 ,let there be light1 and from ,his lips that spoke no word but love and truth and power1 the lightning of electric life and glory thrilled every atom with vibrating cosmic energy1 and life-evolving force4 ,then the electric clothing of light and life leaped into power and enwrapt as in swaddling clothes a new born universe4 ,and wherever the breath of ,deity was blown there was the glowing nucleus of a sun1 or the revolving center of a world4 ,then atoms and electricity met in fond and unending embrace1 substance and energy clasped hands1 and matter and persistent force were woven into each other's arms and saturated with electric1 life-giving energy4 ,the first starting point of the universe was the intellectual volition of ,deity4 ,the second was the law of nature impressed upon matter by electricity1 the right hand of ,deity and the tongue and word of ,his power4 ,spirit cannot act directly upon matter2 it must have a medium controlled by spirit at one end and working on matter at the other4 ,this medium is electricity4 ,matter is held together by the electric attraction of the molecules of which it is composed4 ,the molecules are composed of invisible magnets called atoms4 ,this electric attraction acts continuously4 ,were it to stop its action for a second1 solid bodies would instantly crumble to invisible atoms1 our material forms would vanish into thin air1 and the universe disappear in viewless ether4 ,the electro-magnetic force holds firmly the molecules of solid bodies and gives them their strength and solidity4 ,it is more feeble in its cohesive grasp on liquid bodies and is very feeble in gaseous bodies4 ,molecules are in a ceaseless state of activity and motion1 forever vibrating to the touch of electric energy4 ,the ever-restless and varying motions of the invisible molecules constituting all matter is like a cluster of bees at their hive1 or of ants at their nests1 hurrying and scrambling over and around each other in constant and curious motions4 ,and if our eyes were powerful enough to see the molecules of which a block of wood or a human body is composed1 they would witness such a scene of activity as the crowded bees and ants exhibit1 only still more curious and constant4 ,when water is changed into steam it goes into the air as widely separated and invisible particles which disappear entirely1 but every particle is still in existence and may be converted again into water4 ,when wood is burned1 it changes into ashes1 smoke and vapor4 ,not a single particle is ever destroyed4 ,it is so with our bodies1 they dissolve into their natural elements1 which pass into tree and shrub and air and water and other bodies2 they never return to their organic form4 ,there is no resurrection of the physical body4 ,what goes down into the grave never comes forth again4 ,the spirit-body never enters the grave1 but soars to the celestial cities of the sun in a new and endless life4 ,nature and ,deity would not do so nugatory a thing as to resurrect three or four bucketsful of water and a handful of bonedust4 ,fresher and better material is at hand in abundance all the time4 ,there are bodies all around us so small that we cannot see them4 ,they are in the air we breathe and in the water we drink4 ,some of them are alive and some are not4 ,many of them are so small we need the most powerful microscope to detect their presence4 ,yet every one is made up of parts much smaller than itself4 ,the fine dust which clings to our fingers when we hold a butterfly or a moth1 scarce visible to the naked eye1 is found under the microscope to be made up of a thousand or more still smaller particles4 ,there are living creatures so small it would take a million of them to equal the size of a mustard seed4 ,millions of them float unseen in the air around us1 and swim in the drops of water we drink4 ,millions more float through the blood in our veins1 which to them are vast1 surging seas of life4 ,they are so very small1 a thousand of them might fly side by side through the eye of a needle4 ,yet each little creature must be made of still smaller parts1 else they could not move or devour their food2 they are too infinitesimal for the grasp of our imagination4 ,if we keep on dividing a body into smaller and smaller pieces1 we at last get a piece so very small it cannot be divided again without changing into some other kind of matter4 ,these smaller pieces are called molecules1 which are particles of matter which cannot be divided without changing their nature4 ,all bodies are porous and have spaces between their molecules4 ,this was proven of gold a long time ago at ,florence1 where a hollow globe of gold was filled with water and shut up tight1 then put under immense pressure4 ,the water was forced by the pressure through the pores of the gold as a fine dewy moisture or perspiration4 ,the same result would have occurred had it been iron1 copper or any other metal1 as there is a space between all molecules in all bodies4 ,all molecules in all bodies revolve around each other without touching4 ,you can stand a man before the ,crookes tube or ,roentgen rays and look through him and take pictures of his bones1 and look through his bones and take pictures of objects on the other side of them1 and also look through four-foot walls4 ,and photographs are now taken through six-inch brick walls4 ,all spaces between the molecules of all visible substances1 all pores and cavities in all organic bodies and inorganic matter1 including the earth1 and all animal and vegetable life is1 ,i contend1 permeated and occupied by invisible electro-magnetic ether4 ,this ether is the life-giving and life-preservative force and essence of the universe and that from which all things have been evolved4 ,all suns and worlds and all their complex creations and everything that exists floats in this boundless1 vibrating sea of magnetic ether4 ,and there are vast and mighty currents of electric force and power reaching from every sun and planet to every other sun and planet in the universe4 ,these are enduring bands of strength1 invisible ligaments of magnetic power that bind the universe together as one complete1 harmonious electric organism4 ,they constitute the unity and strength of all creation and promulgate and enforce the laws of nature4 ,they are vast highways of space1 the boulevards of the universe4 ,we cannot see them1 neither can we see elemental matter1 or electricity1 or life1 but we know they exist1 and are the foundations of the universe4 ,human spirits1 at death1 when they drop their visible vesture of atoms1 can step onto this electric tide1 this current of swift-speeding light and power1 and in eight minutes or less time enter the heaven of their dreams in the celestial cities of the sun4 ,they have but to step on this flowing tide of electric power1 as they step on a moving stairway or platform in our cities here on earth1 to be borne with scarcely a sense of motion to their bright and heavenly abode4 ,it is a swift and continuous band1 an endless chain1 a mighty ligament of light and life and power constantly passing between heaven and earth1 and earth and heaven1 between sun and planet and planet and sun4 ,these are the countless pathways between suns and stars1 the mighty and everlasting highways of eternity which ,god hath built to span the silent ether of space between suns and worlds1 and bind the universe in one harmonious whole4 ,on these mighty currents1 as on a moving bridge of golden light1 angels and men and ministering spirits may pass and repass to the gateway of eternal life4 ,moses and ,elias1 ,christ and ,john1 and all the departed saints of earth have trod this ,jacob's ladder on which the angels ascend and descend between heaven and earth1 and all the departed denizens of earth have trod its golden stairs to their celestial1 sun-bright home4 ,dr4 ,minot ,j4 ,savage1 the eminent ,new ,york divine1 says he objects to my putting eight minutes of time between the earth and the spiritual world4 ,he thinks ,christ taught that they were in immediate connection with each other4 ,and so they are1 by the coming and going tides of spirits between the two worlds4 ,but now that the speed of light seems to be discovered to be instantaneous1 it may be the communication between them is instantaneous4 ,when the deathless spirit has dropped its mortal coil1 and visited with electric wing the luminous1 life-giving sun and the mighty cities on its spacious bosom1 and graduated in the universities of heaven1 it will discover that eternity is scarcely long enough to study and enjoy the marvelous creations of the universe4 ,it will find our world is but a floating island in the great solar sea of electro-magnetism1 and the solar sea or empire of our sun is but a small province in the boundless ocean of space1 hid in the infinite abyss of starry depths2 that measureless immensity and countless variety reigns in the universe4 ,human souls will then be free as air and untrammeled as ether1 and may explore the vast highways of eternity with wonder-seeking minds1 and visit ,jupiter with his enormous moons1 ,saturn with his gigantic rings1 and traverse the out-lying orbs of distant ,uranus and ,neptune4 ,they may then pass to other solar realms1 and wander over the varied bosom of ,andromeda's triple suns of blue and green and sapphire tints that whirl like globes of rainbow beauty in the azure sky1 and see the double stars and multiple suns1 and fiery comets with their glowing spooms1 and blood-red meteors1 all following harmonious orbits through the pulsing voids of space1 vibrating to the rythmic cadence of electric law4 ,all moving with tranquil majesty in the trackless seas of immensity obedient to the ,omnipotent ,will4 ,here blooms infinite1 varied life and ever-changing beauty to thrill and bless the wonder-loving soul and make melodious harmony with every pulsing vibration of their imperishable life4 ,the universe of myriads of suns is separated by trillions of miles and scattered like lighthouses along the realms of space1 as dynamos of heat and light and life1 shooting with measureless speed and bound together by mutual ties as delicate and invisible as the ties of love that bind two souls together at the hymeneal altar4 ,such is ,god's universe4 ,she is as a bride to her lover in every floating atom of space1 in every circling world and glowing sphere1 in every human soul and angel spirit4 ,as light is the great painter of the skies1 and photographs all things that occur in the atmosphere of suns and planets1 the aspect of the earth and the sun and the events that occurred on their surface thousands of years ago are now winging their flight through space millions of millions of miles distant4 ,to the eye of ,deity or an observer on some distant orb these events of centuries past would seem to be actually occurring or in progress4 ,with powers commensurate with the photographic powers of light1 a human soul could stand upon a distant star and follow this wonderful vision and gaze on a succession of events from the beginning of time to the present moment1 and read the history of every sun and planet in the rays of light from its own atmosphere4 ,and with poised wing in limitless space or on some far-off sun1 read the mighty events transpiring on this little earth in the distant rays of light from its own atmosphere4 ,and in the cities of the sun1 the denizens of heaven may1 by some marvelous appliance1 so magnify the picture in each ray of light from earth and sun and planet that they may view with microscopic eye and telescopic vision all the historic scenes of every sphere1 and learn the life and history of every rolling orb4 ,they need not visit them to see and know the panoramic history of their glowing life4 ,and thus they may view the varied scenes of earth4 ,could we transport ourselves to ,alpha ,lyra1 ,sirius or some more distant sun and could see1 like them1 the photographic pictures in the rays of light from earth we could view scenes that transpired on the earth thousands of years ago4 ,thus human souls may see and thus ,deity sees the end from the beginning at all times in all spheres4 ,and a ray of light1 a drop of dew1 a grain of sand or a blade of grass conveys to him a history of the world of which it is a part4 ,thus ,god preserves in every ray of light a constant picture of the changing panorama of the universe2 and in man's mind1 through man's imperishable memory1 ,he keeps a perfect record of man's thoughts and deeds1 which ,he can unravel as a written scroll at any moment4 ,the future is ever present in its germs1 precisely as the past is present in its fruits4 ,and ,god's knowledge of the past and future is as much the subject of ,his consciousness as the present action of ,his creatures1 or the primary laws ,he has established4 ,he has assigned to the universe certain material and spiritual laws1 and the whole scheme of the universe is so perfect it needs no direct intervention4 ,his perfect control of matter under electric law produces the evolutions of nature that accord with ,his divine purpose1 and ,his spiritual impulse directs the spiritual development of the human soul to the ultimate goal of truth and perfection to be attained in ,his self-luminous1 perfected worlds4 ,thus we perceive that to the ,omnipotent ,ruler of the universe the infinite past and the infinite future would at all times be present1 that each atom and event would exhibit to ,him at each instant the limitless past and future1 giving him perfect and omnipotent consciousness and control of his spiritual and electric universe4 ,and even on this earth1 the time may come when we can so magnify the picture in a ray of light that we may see the cities in the sun1 and read the inscriptions on their walls and temples1 and view the gates of pearl and the sapphire dome and diamond coronet above the ,acropolis of the terraced city of the sun described in ,revelations4 ,the soul is an invisible atom of ,deity and1 like invisible atoms and electricity1 may pass to and from the sun in eight minutes and perhaps only a few seconds4 ,i reason scientifically that if invisible matter and electricity go everywhere and pass to and from the sun continually and exert their power and do not lose their natural properties or identity1 it is clear and overwhelming proof that man's soul1 when it steps out of the body1 maintains its power and identity1 and can fly with the speed of light to the throne of light and life in the luminous bosom of the all-life-giving sun4 ,is it not right1 by the eternal law of cause and sequence and unanswerable logic1 that life should return to the fountain of life8 ,that life1 soul life and material life1 which the sun nurtures1 builds and vitalizes here1 when its usefulness here is ended that it should return to the luminous bosom of its great mother--the source of all life1 light and power2 and that there it should find the great ,spiritual ,father1 who planned and constructed this mighty machinery of worlds1 or his immaculate ,son and representative4 ,then1 by all the laws of reason1 intelligence1 and the eternal fitness of things1 ,god1 the eternal1 creative ,spirit1 should have his abode and center of life and light and power at the central abode of all life and light and power in the physical universe1--the all-sustaining1 creative sun4 ,such accords with the eternal laws of nature and the one unchanging mode and pattern of the universe4 ,for by the universal law of all created things1 the center of physical and electric power and life is also the center of spiritual and intellectual power1 and there should be the home of ,deity and the promised heaven of the human soul4 ,the question may often arise1 ,does ,god perfect humanity and then destroy it8 ,does ,he make men of us with all the trouble and care that comes inside of seventy years1 and then throw us away8 ,i do not believe he does anything so wasteful and unjust4 ,he has prepared a pathway to the skies and takes us to ,himself4 ,this is more rational4 ,jacob saw the heavenly ladder and angels ascending and descending between heaven and earth1 and ,stephen saw the heavens open and ,christ sitting on the right hand of ,god4 ,these were not miracles in the supernatural sense2 they were simply a larger vision1 an expansion of electric and spiritual power under the rapid evolution of natural law4 ,all great seers and prophets have had the same clairvoyant power4 ,at the birth of our planet1 the stars sang together and all the ,sons of ,god shouted for joy4 ,at the birth of ,christ the angels sang for the shepherds on the plains of ,bethlehem1 and they visited ,abraham and ,lot1 and ,joseph and ,mary1 and ministered to ,christ when he was weary and famished in the wilderness4 ,they carried ,john in the spirit to the great and high mountain in the sun which was to him a new heaven and a new earth and showed him the great city of ,god1 and they have borne millions of bright human spirits along the electric highways of the skies to the celestial mansions of the blest4 ,so will they wait and guide us through the dusky borders of mortality1 along the shining pathway to the sun1 and welcome us to the delights of its celestial cities4 ,and we shall see in the hour of dissolution the ladder ,jacob saw reaching from earth to heaven on which the angels ascend and descend1 and we shall see the vision martyred ,stephen saw when the heavens opened1 and the vision ,st4 ,john saw when he gazed on the ,new ,jerusalem4 ,and this electric stairway between heaven and earth is so real1 sure and strong1 that the weakest spirit cannot lose its way or stumble or fall4 ,it has the lightness of air and the strength of adamant and is as eternal as the stars4 ,millions of millions have trod its pathway of viewless power that no steel or adamant could brake1 and none have failed to reach the heaven that it links to earth4 ,the creature whose intelligence measures the pulsations of molecules and unravels the secret of the whirling nebul is no creature of a day1 but the child of the universe1 the heir of all the ages1 in whose making and perfection is found the consummation of ,god's creative work4 ,god is a spirit and man is a spirit1 and spirit power is the supreme sovereignty of the universe4 ,and the soul of man can command electric energy to bear it with swift wings and tireless feet along the electric pathway to the luminous bosom of the sun1 to the celestial cities of his future heaven4 ,and the angels will be our guides and direct our faltering spirits along the electric pathways to the stars1 and light the shining boulevards of eternity1 and lead us to the golden streets and crystal palaces of heaven4 ,and they will escort us into the diamond banqueting hall of the ,king of ,kings1 and we shall feast on angels' food1 and sip nectar and ambrosia from the table of the ,god of ,gods4 ,and the angel choir shall take down their celestial harps from their panels of amethyst1 and with deft fingers and entrancing voices sing us the old1 loved melodies of heaven1 and put a new song in our mouths1 and we shall join the heavenly jubilee of eternal life and glory4 ,when the daylight trembles into shade1 ,when falls the silence of mortality1 ,and all is done1 we shall not be afraid ,but pass from light to light2 from what doth seem ,into the heart and heaven of our dream4 ,,chapter ,,xv ,,this ,,electric ,,universe ,,is ,,self-,,sustaining ,,and ,,eternal ,the natural beauty and utility of the world is vast and varied4 ,the grandeur and strength of the universe is boundless and enduring4 ,nature is ,deity1 thinking in visible thoughts of beauty and power1 and speaking in visible tones of life1 motion and harmony4 ,all things in nature combine beauty with utility and while full of change are constant and enduring4 ,the same electric laws1 force and substance which gives luminous brilliancy to countless suns1 and paints the aurora and the rainbow the rosy hues of dawn and the crimson glories of sunset1 give color to the ruddy cheeks of youth1 and red corpuscle to the arterial blood that brings health and strength to human forms4 ,these same electric laws1 force and substance hold their sceptre of power through all the universe4 ,under electric law atoms and molecules embrace each other and evolve visible forms of life2 and suns glow with warmth and light1 and keep their appointed distances in the circling mazes of the sky4 ,and by the grasp of electric energy these life-giving suns carry their family of life-bearing worlds upon their mysterious voyage through the realms of measureless space4 ,all nature is a visible expression of ,omnipotent ,deity1 all the universe is a symbol of creative power and wisdom which is boundless and enduring1 and proclaims that our world1 the sun and the universe are eternal and enduring4 ,the question of the continued existence of our solar system is a fascinating subject to most of our astronomers2 they seem never to be weary of looking forward to a time when the light of the sun will expire with age1 or it will be destroyed by some great catastrophe4 ,i have no such apprehensions4 ,first1 because in the six or eight thousand years of human history on this planet there is no record of any sun or star being blotted out1 or any planet being destroyed4 ,the sun1 stars and planets are substantially the same as they were when ,babylon flourished1 when ,abraham was a sun worshiper1 and when the angels sang on the plains of ,bethlehem4 ,as far as human knowledge and science goes1 not a single star has faded from the glittering hosts of night's jewelled crown4 ,second1 because the same electric force that started suns and planets on their grand velocities and fixed their orbits is not only an attracting force1 but also a repelling force of marvelous power4 ,and while suns and planets attract each other they also repel each other1 and make each keep their respective distance under the law of electro-magnetism by which opposite poles attract and like poles repel each other4 ,if you place the opposite poles of a horseshoe magnet together they will attract each other and cling together until a superior force overcomes their mutual attraction2 but if you reverse them and put their like poles together1 they will not cling together1 but will repulse each other4 ,in chemistry molecules of opposite polarity unite1 and this is called chemical affinity2 molecules of like polarity will not unite1 and this is called chemical repulsion4 ,magnets attract only when their poles are reversed1 or when they are oppositely electrified1 and suns and planets do the same4 ,the sun as the great central magnet1 or electric generator1 has the power both to attract and to repel4 ,the planets are kept in their orbits by both the sun's attraction and its repulsion4 ,in the summer1 when the earth gets four millions of miles nearer the sun1 there is a repelling force from the sun that sends it off again1 or it would continue to approach the sun until it would fall into his spacious bosom4 ,no law of gravitation or balancing force of planets could do this4 ,the centrifugal force of electric repulsion in the sun does for the earth what all the balancing force of the planets could not do if they were all swung in the circling orbit of ,mars4 ,the sun1 by this electric propelling force1 throws off the comets which approach it4 ,this is proven by scientific records in many instances for centuries4 ,by this same propelling force the sun holds off the swift leaden planet ,mercury4 ,by this same electric repulsion the planets prevent their moons from falling back onto their surfaces4 ,these moons are the same material and electric composition as the worlds from which they come1 and1 as like polarity repels1 they are thus kept in their orbits4 ,there are estimated to be eighteen to one hundred millions of suns in this universe4 ,can any one believe they are kept in their places by a mere balancing force8 ,they are held by electrical repulsion as well as by electrical attraction4 ,there may also be belts or zones of ether with the proper electrical vibration or condition in the orbit of each planet and satellite which hold them with giant grasp in their allotted places4 ,and every sun system may have its own peculiar electricity1 which has a repulsion for all other systems and holds each in its proper place4 ,all these things are possible and probable under the theory of electrical creation4 ,as twenty-eight currents of electricity can pass over the same wire at the same time1 fourteen each way1 how many kinds of electric currents may the universe possess8 ,may not each planet have its own peculiar current1 and its own peculiar attracting power1 and the sun give each a different electricity8 ,while each sun system1 with its revolving planets1 is held together by mutual electric attraction1 the eighteen millions of sun systems are prevented from coming in collision with each other by the law of electric repulsion4 ,this would prevent any one system from trespassing upon the domain or territory of another1 and permit each and all to move freely among themselves and change places without danger of trespass or collision4 ,in case of too near an approach to each other the law of repulsion would drive them off4 ,this would avoid the necessity of a central sun1 which probably does not exist or it would be visible4 ,if all these systems were positively magnetized or all negatively magnetized they would repel each other4 ,this law of electrical repulsion would increase the nearer these systems approached each other1 and this increasing power would send them further away1 and forever prevent discord and collision4 ,this is why there is no discord in the fields of heaven and harmony reigns triumphant4 ,electric repulsion is all that prevents these almost infinite sun systems from coming into conflict with one another1 and ending in aggregate and ruinous collision1 and reducing the universe to a heterogeneous mass of discordant spheres4 ,no law of gravitation could prevent such a wreck and ruin of the universe4 ,on the contrary1 the size and weight of every sun and star that floats in the broad expanse of ether would under the law of gravity tend to bring about just such a universal catastrophe4 ,if the boasted law of gravitation prevailed to-day1 or ever did prevail1 such would be the disastrous results4 ,the law of gravitation tends to aggregate all bodies into one4 ,if the universe was under the dominion of gravity there would be but one vast globe in all the universe1 and if there was a man on it there would be but one enormous giant4 ,newton's law of gravitation is large bodies attract small ones4 ,if that is true1 then all small bodies would fly into the arms of the larger ones1 and the process would continue until the largest body had them all1 and there would be no smaller ones to attract4 ,this is a fair analysis of the law of gravitation4 ,as to the rule that matter and worlds attract each other inversely to the square of the distance1 that rule could not exist but for the law of electric repulsion4 ,that rule is very near the law by which matter falls towards the sun by electric attraction4 ,but it is not the law of orbital energy by which planets are kept out of the sun4 ,neither is it the law by which satellites are kept from falling into the planets around which they revolve4 ,the weight that falls to the earth by attraction may be lifted by dynamic repulsion4 ,therefore the law of repulsion is as necessary as the law of attraction4 ,gravitation ignores the laws of repulsion4 ,with gravity only all spheres would fall together in a common ruin2 with repulsion only they would dissolve into ether2 and both of these forces1 normally active and balanced1 are necessary to preserve the universe4 ,therefore1 ,i contend that our earth1 the solar system and the universe is self-sustaining and eternal in duration1 because of the ever-active omnipotent force of electrical repulsion in sun systems1 in suns and planets and their satellites4 ,our wise astronomers for two centuries have bestowed upon so-called gravitation all the divine attributes1 and thrown around it the halo of a worshiped divinity2 and ignored its twin brother and dual force1 repulsion4 ,this was excusable before the discovery of electricity and its marvelous forces as a new causation4 ,but since then it seems the blind folly of stupid conservativism that would cling to old traditions and antiquated authority4 ,they recognized the law of repulsion in matter1 in gases1 in gunpowder1 in volcanoes1 in steam1 in dynamite1 in perfumery1 in everything in the earth1 but denied its operation in the sun and planets1 and sidereal space4 ,this ever-active omnipotent force of electric repulsion keeps all sun systems from coming together or trespassing upon each other's vast domains4 ,there is electrical repulsion as a great barrier between them to hold them apart4 ,why8 ,because they have like polarities or become alike electrified as they approach each other4 ,this without any other reason is sufficient to forever prevent collisions between the sun systems of the universe4 ,electrical repulsion keeps our earth and the planets from falling into the sun4 ,why8 ,because our earth and the planets1 when they approach within a certain distance of the sun1 may become similarly electrified to the sun1 and are thrown back to their proper and balanced orbit4 ,electrical repulsion keeps all satellites from falling into their primary planets4 ,why8 ,because they have like polarities1 and are positive or negative like their primaries1 and repulse each other4 ,thus each and all the suns1 planets and satellites continue in their orbits of balanced forces1 and will always continue and are as eternal as the laws of electro-magnetism that created and upholds the universe4 ,the same law applies to comets4 ,why does the comet1 when it approaches just so near to the sun1 dart away so quickly8 ,because it becomes alike electrified as the sun1 and the law of repulsion strikes it like the blow of a mammoth triphammer and hurls it in the opposite direction4 ,this is one reason2 there may be others1 for the laws of repulsion are as many and various as the laws of attraction4 ,the scientists in all ages have been fascinated with fearful1 grim and dismal pictures of the end of the world4 ,like the theologians who delighted to paint the tortures of the fiery tophet of their imagination1 the scientists have exhausted their wildest fancy in picturing the sun consumed with fire1 the earth melting with fervent heat and the final wreck of matter and the crush of worlds4 ,the latest display of dismal and excessive fancy on this subject is from the prolific pen of our most eminent and worthy astronomer1 ,prof4 ,simon ,newcomb4 ,it is to be found in ,mc,clure's ,magazine of ,may1 #aijc1 which ,i have just read1 entitled ,the ,end of the ,world4 ,it is a well written1 imaginative story or article1 embracing his theory or hypothesis of the cause and manner of the world's destruction4 ,i admire his scholarly style1 his great learning1 and splendid fancy1 and if ,i believed in the scientific theories and traditions which he champions with such an able pen1 ,i should say it was a masterly presentation of what would occur in sun and earth at some indefinite future time4 ,but as ,i have discarded the old scientific traditions ,i cannot accept his theories or his fancy picture4 ,it is too dismal for my optimistic conception of what has occurred or what will occur in this vast and mighty universe4 ,he is a worthy successor of ,newton and ,la ,place1 for he has a vigorous imagination1 which easily scans the future and presents what ,i deem antiquated theories1 sustained by traditional facts4 ,each person lives in a different world and sees a different universe1 according to his knowledge and imagination4 ,the universe ,ptolemy saw was different from that of ,copernicus1 and ,newton's different from both1 so my conception of the universe is different from that of ,prof4 ,newcomb's4 ,imagination is a creature of education and converts knowledge into utility1 and reasons from the known to the unknown1 and is the telescope of futurity and the microscope of past centuries4 ,i am a great believer in imagination or ideality as the highest gift of ,deity1 and accept ,napoleon's statement that imagination rules the world4 ,i believe no man can be a great astronomer without it1 and the tallest and broadest enlightened imagination will naturally have the best conception of the complicated motion and grandeur of the universe4 ,tyndall in an address at ,liverpool in #ahgj1 said1 ,there are tories even in science who regard imagination as a faculty to be feared and avoided rather than to be employed4 ,in fact1 without this power our knowledge of nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistence and sequences2 the soul of force would be dislodged from our universe2 casual relations would disappear1 and with them that science which binds the facts of nature to an organic whole4 ,this is nobly and truly said1 for all progress is heralded by theorization2 which is an intelligible explanation of things1 and serves to relate cause and effect4 ,it distinguishes the human being from the animal1 the civilized from the savage1 the wise and learned from the ignorant and foolish4 ,herbert ,spencer said1 ,in the formation of a theory we have the highest condition of the human mind4 ,and ,holder1 in his life of ,darwin1 says1 ,darwin was greater than others1 because he had the genius of scientific hypothesis4 ,therefore ,i am proud of ,prof4 ,newcomb's hypothesis of the cause and manner of the death of the solar system1 though ,i do not accept his theory or his conclusions4 ,i am glad he is not one of those scientists1 who said in the ,new ,york ,journal not long ago1 that the only thing of value to science was the tabulation of facts4 ,the mere tabulation of facts would be of as little value to the world without causation1 theory and hypothesis1 as the ,egyptian hieroglyphics before the discovery of the ,rosetta ,stone4 ,let us see what the learned astronomer1 ,prof4 ,newcomb1 says4 ,he projects himself into the future and starts out by imagining that from the central observatory in the ,himalayas1 ,mars is signalling a dark star4 ,this1 he says1 was after the world had long been dull and stagnant4 ,now1 ,i protest that this world will never become dull and stagnant1 nor any part of this electric universe1 but all will go on steadily progressing to more perfect conditions4 ,here is where our theories clash on the first sentence4 ,then he proceeds to tell the kind of dullness and stagnation that existed4 ,he says almost every scientific discovery had been made thousands of years before1 and all inventions had been perfected1 and everything went on as by machinery4 ,the peace of the world was settled and the time when men fought and killed each other in war lay far back in the mists of antiquity1 and the newspapers chronicled little but births1 marriages1 deaths and the weather reports4 ,only one language was spoken the world over1 and all gentlemen dined in blue coats with gilt buttons and wore white neckties with red borders4 ,now ,i cannot accept this as a true picture of our earth at any time in its future1 or the hypothesis of human stagnation as possible or probable4 ,i do not regard the world's peace1 and perfected machinery1 and blue coats with gilt buttons and white neckties with red borders1 as evidence of dullness and stagnation4 ,and ,i cannot believe the newspapers1 whose proverbial energy is perennial1 will ever get to the low ebb of stagnation he describes4 ,but to the more important points4 ,three thousand years before this time messages had been successfully interchanged with the inhabitants of ,mars1 and now this message of a dark star arrives from ,mars1 which excites the astronomers1 and later the people1 until the whole world is in a frenzy of terror1 apprehension and despair1 watching this terrible star1 which continued to increase4 ,the people of ,mars are also in a state of extraordinary excitement1 and our astronomers are much puzzled about the orbit of this dark star1 many times the size of our earth4 ,then the ,himalaya observatory sends out the startling announcement that1 the dark star has no orbit2 but is falling toward the sun with great speed4 ,then a professor in physics sees the dangerous possibility of its collision with the sun1 and has an immense vault1 which had been previously built for scientific experiments1 a hundred feet under ground1 stored with provisions1 etc4 ,in this safe retreat he hides himself and his assistants when the dark star strikes the sun1 and the fearful conflagration of the sun and earth occurs4 ,and when the sun and earth were burned up by the collision of the dark star with the sun1 they1 like ,noah and his family1 were saved from the general destruction4 ,the description of the melting of the houses1 stones and all combustible material on the surface of the earth1 the anguish and despair of the thronging multitudes1 and the destruction of the great city of ,hatten1 built on the ruins of the old city of ,neeork1 would duplicate the horrors of ,dante's ,inferno4 ,the illustrations are equally horrible and terrific1 and both are calculated to shock the mind of the reader and retard mental composure and sthetic culture4 ,he states1 in the words of the professor1 his theory1 thus3 ,my theory is that if one of these dark objects chances to strike a star it bursts through its outer envelope and sets free the enormous fires pent up within4 ,these pent-up fires within the sun1 he claims1 are going to blaze up more furious and be the cause of this dread catastrophe of ruin and death to the sun and planets4 ,with all respect to this eminent astronomer1 ,i insist1 first1 there are no pent-up fires in the sun4 ,second1 no dark or light star1 planet or globe can ever fall into the sun1 because the law of electric repulsion in the sun will send it off1 as it does the comets1 in an opposite direction2 besides this same law of electric repulsion will forbid any such object from coming into the solar system4 ,he says this dark star1 many times the size of our earth1 striking the sun1 would destroy it and our earth and planetary system by fire4 ,all life and combustible material1 including stones and the surface of the sun and planets1 he insists1 would be utterly consumed by the heat engendered by such a collision4 ,now1 ,i contend1 in the first place1 that such an event is virtually impossible2 and if it were possible1 a star of many times the size of our earth1 coming in collision with the sun1 would make little more impression on it than a dozen hogsheads of dynamite thrown against the surface of the moon4 ,both would do great local damage to the spot and vicinity where they struck1 but neither would produce any great general disturbance and injury to these orbs4 ,many times the size of the earth would mean naturally something like a dozen times the size of the earth4 ,let us estimate the general result by comparison4 ,the sun is one million three hundred thousand times larger than the earth4 ,it is so large that if we could drop our earth into the center of the sun1 our moon1 which is two hundred and forty thousand miles from us1 would only be about half way to the circumference or outer rim of the sun4 ,now1 a star many times the size of our earth1 striking the surface of the sun1 would create great heat by the compact1 and great distraction in the locality where it struck2 and would likely imbed itself in the sun1 like large meteors do on the earth1 and become a good sized mountain on the sun's surface4 ,it would not increase the electric currents or radiation1 of the sun sufficient to melt the snow on the mountains of the tropics or set fire to a haystack on the earth4 ,its effect on the earth would not be excessive in temperature1 and would be very temporary4 ,for my theory is that the sun sends only such currents of electricity to the earth as the earth draws and demands by its opposite polarity4 ,only a great sun a thousand or a million times larger than our earth would make any great impression on the sun in case of a collision2 and then it would not result in its destruction1 or that of the earth and planets4 ,its size and power would be increased1 but that would not necessarily increase the heat of the planets1 if1 as ,i contend1 the sun could only send them the electric currents the planets draw by reason of their opposite polarity2 just as a receiving station of wireless telegraphy receives only the electric currents intended for it because of the peculiar attracting power it possesses4 ,i am aware that the recent flaring out in light1 and increase in size of the star ,nova ,persei in the constellation of ,perseus1 has given plausibility to the conjecture of some astronomers that it was caused by a collision between two suns4 ,but ,i think the better opinion is that this star is a new sun1 partly nebulous and in its formative state2 and that it was visited by a great cloud or swarm of meteors1 which produced the great illumination which flared out into space for a few days and then subsided4 ,its former small size1 to which it has returned1 and its present nebulous condition1 or the nebul that surrounds it1 seems to fully justify this conclusion4 ,i do not believe there ever has been or ever will be a collision among the suns or planets4 ,the wisdom of the ,creator1 as manifested in the great universal laws of electro-magnetism1 forbid it4 ,if such a catastrophe was likely ever to occur1 it would have happened many times since the history of the race began1 and we would have had many undoubted demonstrations of the direful uncertainty of the life of the suns and planets and the varying chances and unstable condition of the universe4 ,let us hear the conclusion of ,prof4 ,newcomb's hypothesis in the last words of the last man on the earth1 in the person of the professor of physics3 ,such is the course of evolution4 ,the sun1 which for millions of years gave light and heat to our system and supported life on the earth1 was about to sink into exhaustion and become a cold and inert mass4 ,its energy could not be revived except by such a catastrophe as has occurred4 ,the sun is restored to what it was before there was any earth on which it could shed its rays1 and will in time be ready to run its course anew4 ,in order that a race may be renewed1 it must die like an individual4 ,untold ages must once more elapse while life is reappearing on earth and developing in higher forms4 ,this is the present accepted scientific theory4 ,but is it right8 ,according to my conception1 it is not4 ,the sun is not growing old1 or cold1 or feeble1 nor can it sink into exhaustion4 ,nature1 on this earth1 under electric law and process1 is ever renewing herself4 ,and it is the same in all suns and planets4 ,nature's curriculum of eternal processes is continuous change and evolution4 ,her processes of renewal and purification are so perfect here on earth1 that our most luscious fruits and vegetables1 and our most beautiful and fragrant flowers come from the rank manure of the farmer's stable4 ,the fertilizers of our soil are the decayed excrement of bird and beast and the most loathsome decaying elements2 yet1 through nature's evolving and purifying process they become wheat and corn1 plant1 vegetable and flower1 and our most wholesome1 acceptable and nutritious food2 and if we live many years in the same neighborhood we eat the same food over and over many times1 and the cattle and all living creatures do the same thing4 ,the atoms that compose our bodies have been used over and over again many times4 ,they have been in the bodies of millions of men and animals1 plants and vegetables before we used them1 and will be in millions of bodies yet uncreated4 ,they have been tossed by winds1 hurled and threshed about by tornadoes and cyclones1 drowned in the sea1 and buried in the earth and often digested by other animals before they came to rest under balanced electric forces in our bodies4 ,every atom in our bodies have been to the sun and back billions of times and will be again4 ,they have been renewed by the electric currents of the sun1 by the energy of the soil1 by the electro-magnetic ether of space1 and are as eternal as law and destiny4 ,in like manner1 the elements of the sun are constantly being renewed and invigorated1 and he has an area of six billions of miles in diameter from which to draw virgin atoms1 and like a great sea of inexhaustible force1 it is the fountain from which he receives his measureless power and indestructible life and energy4 ,for he is the central dynamo and electric heart of the solar system1 and with his family of planets is floating in a boundless sea of electro-magnetism that has no limit of life and energy4 ,the sun may send a different kind of wireless electricity to each of the planets1 and each of the planets may return a different kind of electricity to the sun4 ,thus these electric currents may pass and repass between sun and planets and be re-energized and used over and over again1 just as the atoms of our bodies and all earthly molecules are used over and over again4 ,thus the sun constantly renews and invigorates himself and all the elements of the solar system1 and can never come into a state of exhaustion1 as so graphically described4 ,but this vast electric universe is stable1 enduring1 self-sustaining and eternal2 and no law or act of conflict among its millions of suns and planets has ever been discovered1 or is likely ever to be1 the conjectures and sophisticated prognostications of pessimistic scientists to the contrary notwithstanding4 ,can any reasoning1 common thinker1 aside from the scientists1 after viewing our moon swinging around our earth1 as it has done for thousands of years1 only #bdj1jjj miles from us1 without approaching a mile nearer the earth in all that time1 believe there is any danger of a collision between them8 ,the law that holds them apart thousands and millions of years will continue to do so2 and their collision is virtually a matter of impossibility until the electric laws of the universe are abrogated4 ,can any one believe that the little leaden planet ,mercury that has been swinging so close around our enormous sun--only thirty millions of miles from it--for millions of years could keep its constant orbit unless there was an irresistible law1 as omnipotent and changeless as ,deity1 that has and will forever keep it from falling into the sun4 ,look at the planet of ,mars with two satellites1 of ,jupiter with six1 and ,saturn with eight1 flying swiftly around their primaries1 all only a few thousand miles from their surface1 and some of them going in different directions--could any balancing force1 any law of gravitation1 keep them from falling into their primaries8 ,every one of them is a contradiction of the law of gravity1 and puts the stamp of falsity on all its claims4 ,but they all show there is a law which defies so-called gravity and is a correlative force1 and that is the law of electric repulsion2 and it is the cosmic force which1 with electric attraction1 has built the universe as a vast electric machine1 and they will forever preserve its integrity and existence1 and the sun1 earth and universe are eternal4 ,the world moves2 knowledge increases1 and science is gradually broadening her conception of the harmony and endurance of the universe4 ,the theory of dead matter and blind force has been relegated to the obsolete and discarded past1 and been replaced by the recognition of ever-present life and infinite grades of consciousness4 ,the vast and varied factors in nature's problems of eternal destiny point to our sun and earth as a present existing and unending reality4 ,nature builds up1 tears down1 and reproduces her organic forms on the surface of planetary globes1 but she does not destroy her great sun magnets and world magnets in the same manner1 as many of our scientists think4 ,there is a great difference in the powers and functions of suns and planets and the creeping things on their surfaces4 ,suns and planets1 after they have attained their matured and balanced powers1 are immortal1 and creating1 enduring and perfected organisms2 and1 like man in his immortal spirit1 they have attained to eternal life1 and neither death nor ruin can ever come near them4 ,suns and worlds in their electric energy have the powers of creation1 and as the creator is always superior to the created1 they should not be judged alike4 ,therefore the changing and transitory nature of many things on the earth's surface is no proof that such will be the earth's destiny4 ,on the contrary1 every ligament of force and power in this electric universe is pledged to secure the continued and endless duration of our sun and solar system1 including our earth4 ,and timorous humanity should no longer shrink in horror at its prospective wreck and ruin4 ,may the truth prevail and man's mind be freed from the horrors1 of an anticipated destruction of the sun and earth1 and the optimistic joy of imperishable life and love here1 and in the all-glorious sun hereafter brighten the terrestrial existence of humanity4 ,all hail6 thou life-giving sun6 ,sweep on and ever while the cycles roll ,thou wandering orb of luminous sod6 ,thou blazing banner of the mighty ,god6 ,from ,creation's center to its farthest pole1 ,speed on and on in thy unknown track2 ,but the hand that send thee can draw thee back1 ,and teach thee the way when thy footsteps stray1 ,as ,he doth the wanderer4 ,like a silent thought from ,creation wrought1 ,thou speakest a language weird and strange ,of the breadth of space and the speed of change1 ,and the wondrous dream that the ages taught2 ,that from star to star and from sun to sun ,the soul shall pass while the cycles run ,renewed in its youth1 gleaning wisdom and truth1 ,god's wisest wanderer4 ,the living shall die1 and the dead shall live1 ,and the mystery deepens on every hand1 ,and the worlds shall stay1 and the soul shall stand1 ,and a lesson of truth shall all things give4 ,and a mystic touch hath a world to a world ,and the banners of ,god are ever unfurled ,in creation's face teaching truth and grace ,to the wanderer4 ,,chapter ,,xvi ,,are ,,all ,,suns ,,and ,,worlds ,,inhabited8 ,are all suns and worlds inhabited8 ,this has been a puzzling question to the astronomers1 who have had various opinions on the subject4 ,from the laws of electric creation1 as ,i understand them1 the affirmative answer seems reasonable and natural4 ,but as we cannot visit these suns and worlds in the flesh1 my answer must be formed from the operations of the laws of electricity as applied to this planet4 ,prof4 ,newcomb says astronomers have no means of knowing as to the inhabitability of distant orbs any more than other persons1 and that we can only reason cosmologically on the subject1 and1 reasoning thus1 he thinks only the earth and possibly ,mars are inhabited4 ,prof4 ,h4 ,h4 ,turner1 professor of astronomy at ,oxford1 ,england1 in the ,fortnightly ,review of ,april1 #aijc1 in combating ,alfred ,russell ,wallace's theory that our earth is in the center of the universe1 and the only inhabited world1 says3 ,why should not any one of the suns possess planets as well adapted as we are to develop high forms of organic life8 ,he seems to think no valid reason can be given why there are not many inhabited worlds as favorably situated as ours to produce and maintain organic life4 ,and ,i fully agree with him1 and go a step further and say there are many reasons why nearly all suns and worlds are inhabited4 ,reasoning from electric law and cosmological facts1 our world1 and its laws1 forces and creations1 should be a fair sample of the laws1 forces1 and creations of all worlds and planets4 ,this is in accord with universal chemistry1 which teaches that the same laws and substances exist throughout all the realms of space4 ,in reasoning on the formative period of our world1 we found the electric current to be the first form of matter and force1 or the first form of creative manifestations in space4 ,these currents antedate all suns1 worlds and visible objects4 ,we also found that all visible forms of matter were the aggregation of billions of invisible atoms1 and all visible matter and forms were simply the outer garment and scaffolding of these invisible electric forces2 that force follows the law of motion1 and atoms the law of form obedient to the lines of motion4 ,the second step in planetary construction was the arrangement of the atoms into crystalline formation1 due to opposite currents of electrical motion1 and to atomic balance4 ,this produced the rock-ribbed foundations of the earth and solidified it into a vast magnet of marvelous force and power4 ,then when the crystalline rocks and metals were settled into a crystalline globe throbbing with electric power1 vegetation came and the electric life-cell was formed as the first step towards organic life4 ,then came the formation of nerve tissue as the basis of form structure and the evolution of microscopic life which developed under electric energy into all forms of animal existence which now inhabit the earth4 ,these were all formed and perfected through ages of response to the varying electric currents of life-giving power4 ,then the animal form evolved a brain1 and acquired the sense of feeling and sight and hearing by reason of the electric currents that impinged on the sensitive tissues of the brain1 and animal instinct was slowly and gradually developed and the animal organism raised to the highest grade of the perfected mammal4 ,all this was done under electric law by magnetic energy4 ,then the ,creative ,deity said1 ,let us make man4 ,and it is likely ,he took a perfected mammal1 enlarged his brain-pan1 stood him erect to front the stars1 and breathed into him an atom of his own spirit1 and man became a living soul4 ,the psychic power of glowing thought and reasoning mind1 inspiring hope and heaven-bound love1 and truth1 and language1 music1 poetry1 and dreams of heaven1 were implanted as a celestial fire in his deathless spirit4 ,this is man1--the soul1 the spirit1 the divine1 eternal spark of ,deity himself--not the body2 that is merely the overcoat of atoms for the spirit1 the temple for the soul1 the house in which it dwells4 ,it will be seen from the foregoing that electricity is the creative1 evolving force of the universe1 the word of omnipotent power1 the creative machinery of suns and worlds4 ,that it creates suns and worlds and all animal and vegetable organisms1 that it can evolve all forms1 and give animal instinct as the result of balancing the experience of one sense with another through long ages of experience4 ,but it cannot create mind1 soul or the spirit of ,deity4 ,it could not create man as a psychic being4 ,it could organize his body1 but it could not confer on him a soul4 ,electricity does not rob ,god of power2 it is his creative machinery1 and the right hand of ,his power1 and1 guided by ,his omnipotent will as the law of nature1 it can and does evolve suns and worlds and all organic life4 ,but not spirit-life--not man4 ,moses and the ,bible were inspired or they could never have shown so clearly the nobler creation of man1 and his inherent sovereignty over the world1 and dominion over all the animal creation4 ,i like that statement1 ,and ,god said let us make man4 ,electricity was the word of ,his power1 the creative agent of ,his will1 which is the law of nature4 ,it could create a sun1 a world1 a universe2 it could give sense and feeling to insensate dust1 and evolve and fashion man's body as a house suited for his earthly habitation1 but it could not furnish a tenant or evolve a soul4 ,the ,god-father and the ,god-mother alone could do this1 and make man a spiritual and eternal being4 ,now1 ,i argue that if electricity created this earth with all its complex elements and organic forms1 it also created all suns and worlds and all the machinery of the universe by the same process1 and has endowed every rolling sphere in space of sufficient size and power with vegetation1 and all the varied forms of animal organism4 ,is not this a rational conclusion1 since it has been demonstrated by universal chemistry and spectroscopic analysis that all laws1 force and substance are the same in all suns and worlds and throughout the universe8 ,is it reasonable to believe that the electric currents and magnetic energy of our earth could evolve billions of billions of little living creatures which float in the air thicker than motes in a sunbeam1 that swim in the waters so abundant that there are millions in a raindrop1 that penetrate all vegetable and animal substance and organisms1 that course through the veins of our bodies by the billion1 and eat our food for us that we may digest it better2 yet in other suns and worlds produce no such results8 ,i cannot think so4 ,the animalcul are so small that ,ehrenburg estimates that five hundred million of them exist in one drop of water one twelfth of an inch in diameter2 that not only the blood1 but the flesh and muscles are also composed of infinitesimal lives1 each cell possessing a distinct life of its own4 ,binet describes man as a colony of protozoans2 and according to these two biologists he is a walking ,chinese ,empire1 when you consider the microscopic beings in his body4 ,besides our bodies and those of vegetable and animal organism that are thus honeycombed and flooded with animalculine life1 there are countless millions floating in the air1 swimming in the water1 and buried in the dust of the earth4 ,so that organic life is everywhere present on the earth1 in invisible or visible form4 ,and the invisible forms of life of the earth everywhere surpasses the visible forms millions of millions of times4 ,just as the invisible matter in the world and the universe surpasses the visible countless billions of times4 ,thus the natural1 spontaneous production of life and life forms in myriads everywhere on this earth emphasizes the reasonable hypothesis that they are evolved on all suns and planets4 ,this shows the unity of matter and life4 ,wherever there is matter there is electric energy and life-force1 which evolves infinite grades of life-forms4 ,prof4 ,buchner asserts that spectrum analysis has brought about the highly important conviction of the unity of what is to us the visible universe4 ,and ,prof4 ,shaler of ,harvard declares1 the unity of life is the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century4 ,the infinite diversity in nature first fixed the attention of investigators2 now its infinite unity is the marvel which excites their wonder and admiration4 ,now the unity of matter1 force and physical life are accepted by the ablest thinkers4 ,this all tends to prove the inhabitability of all suns and worlds4 ,prof4 ,huxley put himself on record as believing in intelligent organic life in other worlds1 in the following vigorous language3 ,looking at the matter from the most rigidly scientific point of view1 the assumption that amid the myriads of worlds scattered through endless space there can be no intelligence as much greater than man's as his is greater than a black beetle's1 is not merely baseless but impertinent4 ,without stepping beyond the analogy of that which is known1 it is easy to people the cosmos with entities in ascending scale1 until we reach something practicably indistinguishable from omnipotence1 omnipresence1 omniscience4 ,if our intelligence can in some matters surely reproduce the past of thousands of years ago1 and anticipate the future thousands of years hence1 it is clearly within the limit of possibility that some greater intellect even of the same order may be able to mirror the whole of the past and future4 ,this is a masterly statement that demolishes ,alfred ,russell ,wallace's little arguments like a trip-hammer would an eggshell4 ,ruskin also saw much good in the idea of life in other worlds above us1 in creatures as much nobler than ours as ours is nobler than that of the dust4 ,when once the unity and universality of force and electric life are made clear1 and spirit and psychic life in their immortal destiny are made manifest1 as thinking creatures we are led upward to a larger development of life and power1 dominated by a supreme intelligence we call ,deity1 ,infinite ,goodness and ,spiritual ,father4 ,then we remember that he has assured us in the sacred oracles1 that we shall be with ,him and shall be like ,him1 and that there are many mansions in the skies4 ,our scientists tell us there are living creatures so small and so numerous that it would take millions of worlds like ours to support a human population equal to the number of these creatures that can live and move in one cubic inch of space4 ,some of these multiply at the rate of one hundred and seventy thousand millions in a hundred hours4 ,and ,i say every one is a tiny electric machine4 ,the electric currents that built our world from invisible atoms and evolved the complex substances of which it is composed1 and the myriad forms of organic life that exist on its surface will fill other worlds with countless forms of organic life4 ,for in the great electro-magnetic sea we call ether and space1 in which all things float or exist1 and which permeates all form and substance1 there is a boundless reservoir of electric life which will blossom into infinite grades of physical organisms wherever the surface of suns1 planets and satellites have living environments of soil1 light and electric currents4 ,even the soil of our earth maintains life because it is living matter itself4 ,and some forms of life will exist without light or soil4 ,this is the electric universe in solution1 the life-giving sea of all form and substance4 ,oh1 what a miracle of wonders6 ,from this marvelous reservoir of life1 force and substance each created thing draws the elements of its growth and existence4 ,and each draws from the same source that which its nature requires4 ,the oak draws from the same soil and air as the hickory1 the rose1 the apple tree and the poison ivy4 ,but the oak converts all the substance it gathers into the natural fibre of the oak1 the hickory into the natural fibre of the hickory1 the apple tree converts it into the luscious fruit of the apple1 the rose into the delightful perfume which regales our senses1 and the poison ivy converts the same air and soil into deadly poison4 ,this is the marvel of electric law and energy4 ,how does it do it8 ,it does it1 ,i contend1 by the law of magnetic currents under the control of organic affinity4 ,the ,bible states this law in a little different form when it says ,god caused every tree and shrub and created thing to bring forth seed of its kind4 ,man1 like all nature1 also draws from one common intellectual and moral reservoir4 ,and while some draw inspiration and goodness1 others draw poisonous evil1 or1 rather1 convert the good they draw into evils4 ,and each brings forth of its kind4 ,i do not believe with ,prof4 ,newcomb that1 in order that a race may be renewed it must die like an individual4 ,or that the ,creative ,power1 after destroying our earth1 will await with sublime patience the evolution of a new earth and a new order of animated nature4 ,the ,creative ,power has surely as much sense as an ordinary man1 and no man builds and perfects a fine piece of machinery1 or a magnificent mansion to tear it down1 that he may wait in sublime patience the building of another to take its place4 ,we should give ,god credit for ordinary business sense in the construction and preservation of the universe1 which generally seems to be denied ,him by ,his thinking creatures4 ,if ,creative ,wisdom has the power to build worlds1 ,he has also the power to preserve them2 and1 having that power1 to allow them to go to decay or be destroyed would be the perverse folly of a malignant demon1 not a beneficent ,creator4 ,the same is true of the destruction of a race4 ,to create1 build up1 enlighten and perfect a human race1 and then destroy them and their perfected world1 would be a greater crime than it is possible for man or devils to perpetrate4 ,i have a better opinion of ,deity1 a nobler conception of ,his justice and goodness than that4 ,i believe in a ,god who cares1 not the modern ,god of the atheistic majority1 as ,mr4 ,walker says1 who does not care4 ,a ,god who does not care means anarchy and chaos4 ,it means the obliteration of all law1 all moral forces1 all religious conceptions1 all stability and consistency in the government of the universe4 ,why1 the very air we breathe1 the sunshine that gives life1 the regular and constant return of day and night1 of seasons1 years and months1 proclaim a ,god who cares4 ,every smiling human face1 every generous impulse and noble thought1 every worthy deed1 every fragrant flower1 waving field1 and golden harvest testify to a ,god who cares4 ,but what of the red claw of the tiger4 ,what of the big fish that eat the little ones1 or the destruction of life by flood and storm1 or human trials1 sickness and death8 ,are these things consistent with a ,god who cares8 ,they may be4 ,the tiger devours to appease his hunger1 the big fish eat the little ones for the same purpose1 and both obey the law of self-preservation and the survival of the fittest4 ,these two laws are necessary to preserve the life of their kind1 and perfect their species for the benefit of mankind4 ,it seems a sad spectacle to see the strong destroying the weak1 but it is in the earlier stages of existence the only way under the law of evolution to preserve and improve the best of each species1 and is a kindness and a blessing in the end4 ,as to the destruction of life by flood and storms1 these are nature's efforts to preserve the equilibrium of her mighty forces1 and where a few are injured1 millions are benefited and blessed4 ,and as to man's sickness and tribulations1 they are one-half imaginary1 and a half of the other half are the result of their own folly in the violation of the laws of health1 and the remaining one fourth are disciplinary for the purpose of developing character1 which is an ample reward and compensation4 ,as to death1 it is as painless as going to sleep2 it is the dread of death that hurts4 ,and if it is the transition process1 as millions believe1 by which souls drop their brief tenement of atoms1 and soar on tireless wings to celestial realms1 then it is not a curse but a blessing1 especially to the aged and decrepid1 for whom life has no charms4 ,will man never cease slandering the good ,deity1 and libeling the beneficent ,creator of all good8 ,with most people the fault is not with the world or controlling providence and ,deity1 but in themselves4 ,they make their own world in their own mind and then find fault with it as if it was a reality4 ,albert ,russell ,wallace1 in the ,fortnightly ,review of ,march1 #aijc1 in a labored article of great length1 undertakes to carry the world back a thousand years to the time when man thought the earth was the center of the universe1 and the stars were little openings or golden nails in the crystal vault of heaven4 ,he says we are at the center of the universe2 that our sun system belongs to a constellation situated near the center of the ,milky ,way4 ,this may be true1 and it is not worth disputing1 for if we are at the center now--as our system travels #dbj1jjj miles a day--we were not there a thousand years ago1 and in a few decades will be far away from it4 ,as we keep moving all the time1 and do not get off at this central station which he makes so much of1 ,i see nothing gained or lost if it is true4 ,but in order to show that it is central1 he must limit the universe and give its circumference1 metes and bounds4 ,this is an immense undertaking4 ,if our universe is limited--and ,prof4 ,newcomb thought so a few years ago1 and held it was in the shape of a circle or disk1 which was about thirty thousand light years in circumference if true1 then the light from the distant stars have been traveling thirty thousand years in order to reach us1 and they must be millions of miles from where they seem to be4 ,thus the center of the universe is constantly changing1 and it would take omniscient wisdom to tell where the center is1 and then it would not remain the center many hours4 ,this would be true whether the universe is limited or unlimited4 ,mr4 ,wallace says1 ,the supreme end and purpose of this vast universe is the production and development of the living soul in the perishable body of man4 ,if he had said that was the supreme purpose of the earth1 ,i would have agreed with him4 ,but since he makes man's development the supreme purpose of the universe and says all other worlds are uninhabited1 ,i am forced to disagree with him4 ,he says there are one hundred millions of stars and planets in the universe1 yet he depopulates them all for man's benefit1 and then fails to show how man can be benefitted1 or for what purpose the almost countless orbs were created4 ,in my judgment he proves himself a million of times wrong1 and reaches the climax of unreasonable conjecture4 ,i believe no astronomer will agree with him4 ,none has yet appeared1 though several of the most eminent have already expressed their dissent and surprise at his position4 ,his reasons1 to my mind1 do not justify his conclusions1 but prove the very opposite hypothesis4 ,he estimates there are one hundred millions of stars and worlds1 and says they are all composed of the same elements as the planets and solar system4 ,wherever organized life may have developed1 it must be built up out of the same fundamental elements as here on earth4 ,now1 ,i fully agree with him in that statement1 which ,i contend shows clearly that these worlds are inhabited4 ,for if they possess the same elements and are controlled by the same laws1 they must produce the same results of organic life as appear on our earth2 and his arguments about temperature1 proportion of land and water1 etc41 do not affect the question4 ,his conclusions brand the ,great ,architect of the universe as an incompetent and wasteful profligate1 and is contrary to all analogy in human reason1 to all law of proportion and compensation1 and to the eternal fitness of things4 ,the fact that our earth has the same laws1 forces1 and substances as other worlds and is swarming with its countless myriad forms of organic life2 and that all the manifestations of nature's creative forces are prolific in the production of sentient beings1 is conclusive evidence that abundant life exists on other spheres1 and other worlds are not dreary wastes of burning plains and sandy deserts4 ,the fact that the ,creative ,spirit built up man's body through ages of animal growth and perfecting bodily development1 or modeled it after such perfected animal forms1 and then breathed ,his own life and spirit into it1 and made man a spiritual1 eternal being like ,deity ,himself1 is strong evidence that in other suns and worlds he has done likewise2 and that they are the theatres of spiritual as well as of vegetable and animal life4 ,god creates because ,he is ,love and must have spiritual children as the objects of ,his affection4 ,this reason would cause him to people other worlds with the highest order of intelligent creatures similar to man4 ,and the great planets1 and great suns1 like ,sirius1 ,alpha ,lyra1 ,vega and ,alcyone1 which are a thousand times larger than our sun1 should possess beings of greater intellectual and spiritual faculties than our earth in proportion to their superior grandeur and power4 ,thus the infinite wisdom and power of ,creative ,deity1 and the laws and creations ,he has evolved on this earth1 teach us that in other worlds and suns ,he has created other and numerous types of intelligent beings2 and that living organic creatures of ,his bounty in all suns and spheres honor and adore ,his infinite goodness1 power and love4 ,his suns and worlds are countless as the stars-- ,his jeweled finger-prints4 ,through chequered bars ,of light and shade all life is shadow of ,his breath-- ,an uttered thought4 ,and law and change and death ,his angel messengers4 ,his spirit truth ,preserves the universe in fadeless youth4 ,the palpable ,infinite6 who can know8 ,mind from a mustard seed to world1 must grow4 ,the past1 the emblems of ,his power hath wrought ,whose thought created first creating thought1 ,and veiled in mists above ,olympian throne ,we know the unknown ,god is ,god alone4 ,,chapter ,,xvii ,,the ,,electrical ,,theory ,,of ,,creation ,,will ,,save ,,modern ,,science ,,from ,,pantheism ,it is marvelous the number of scientists who question the fact as to whether there is a personal ,god1 and who look upon the universe and its laws and operations as the manifestation of a universal intelligence that has no existence except as it is infused as an invisible force through all nature4 ,in other words1 pantheism1 or belief in a world-,god1 has been taking the place of the materialism of the past century4 ,and a vast array of distinguished agnostics1 so-called1 from ,darwin1 ,spinoza1 ,huxley and ,haeckel to ,ingersoll1 were really believers in pantheism4 ,haeckel says he adheres to the ,monism of ,spinoza which1 he says1 is matter1 or infinitely extended substance2 and spirit or energy1 which is sensitive and thinking substance4 ,these are the two fundamental attributes or principal properties of the all-embracing1 divine essence of the world--the universal substance4 ,what is this but pantheism of the rankest old1 obsolete1 pagan kind8 ,what is the all-embracing divine essence of the world--the universal substance1 but a substitute for ,god1--a ,god which is simply the substance of the world--a world-,god4 ,according to this1 all the elements of the universe are parts of ,deity4 ,the crystalline rocks and metals of the earth1 the dust we kick from our feet1 the manure of the stable1 and the odor of decaying vegetation are all a part of the body of ,god4 ,and this1 they claim1 is the ,god of the universe1 and the only ,god there is4 ,this is a fair analysis of pantheism1 of ,haeckelism1 ,darwin and ,huxleyism1 ,ingersoll and agnosticism4 ,what a shame on human reason6 ,yet these great thinkers1 seeing the intelligibility of nature1 its uniformity of laws and operations1 without a knowledge of electricity were forced to this conclusion4 ,a recent pamphlet by ,f4 ,e4 ,titus1 a barrister of ,toronto1 entitled ,the ,pantheism of ,modern ,science1 says3 ,a summary of recent investigations into life1 force and substance and the opinions based by scientists thereon leads up to the conclusion that there is in nature a universal mind controlling and permeating nature's manifestations4 ,in this ,i agree1 but it is the universal mind of ,deity as manifested through the marvelous creative forces of electricity4 ,but this writer sums up his facts and theories1 and concludes that the pantheism of the universe is the only explanation of all the countless and complicated forces and organisms of life which are to be found everywhere4 ,and he contends the modern tendency of science is back to the old discarded pagan belief of pantheism4 ,even ,flammarion seems imbued with that idea1 and ,haeckel championed it in his monistic theories4 ,but as a knowledge of electricity has killed materialism1 so will it defeat and destroy pantheism4 ,this lawyer-scientist thinks nothing can prevent science from falling into the arms of pantheism1 and he champions it vigorously4 ,but for the discovery of electricity this would have been an age of scientific materialism and pantheism4 ,but the marvelous powers of this invisible force appals the stolid thinkers on solid matter4 ,they have found there is no solid matter1 and that all matter in its primary form1 and all force is as invisible as spirit1 and that the universe swings on invisible forces as intangible as mind and as potent and inscrutable as destiny4 ,the conflict in the future between religion and ,atheism will be chiefly a belief in a ,god that cares1 or a ,god that does not care2 and in science between an electric universe controlled by spirit and a pantheistic universe that thinks and feels in all its parts1 and is itself the ,god of all4 ,this last is virtually the position of ,darwin1 ,huxley and all the agnostics from them to ,ingersoll1 and embraces ,haeckel's moneism in its definition4 ,let us see from whence they get their facts on which they base their theories4 ,they say3 ,the evolution going on in the inorganic world is an evolution of intelligent life4 ,i say that what they call intelligence is the result of electric laws and affinity2 that the selection of atoms and their repulsion and the building of matter into substance and form is the intelligent operation of these electric laws1 which originated in the infinite intelligence and power of the ,creator4 ,they say3 ,the soil maintains life because it is living matter itself4 ,and ,i agree with them1 and say all matter is living matter because it is permeated with electric life and energy and governed by electric law4 ,they say3 ,metals in fact are sensitive things1 like living organisms4 ,i say they are sensitive because they are easily electrified1 and respond quickly to magnetic energy4 ,they say1 with ,dr4 ,thomas ,young1 ,there are all gradations of substance stretching all the way from the solid material to the spiritual1 and gradations of consciousness from the inert mineral to the highest manifesting ,god4 ,and ,i agree with them in a sense1 for the consciousness in matter is electric energy1 and in ,god and man it is spirit4 ,that these electric laws are intelligent1 constant and wonderful we have abundant proof every day of our existence4 ,prof4 ,japp of the ,british ,association says3 ,no fortuitous concourse of atoms1 even with all eternity for them to clash and combine in1 could compass the feat of the formation of the first optically organic compound4 ,this is true1 for only the infinite wisdom of creative law and electric energy could do it4 ,it is not fortuitous or accidental2 it is in accord with nature's perfect laws of electric combinations4 ,i am willing to admit that inherent selective and directive force is exhibited in organic and inorganic matter4 ,and ,i explain it by the laws of electro-magnetism4 ,agnostic pantheism has no explanation4 ,they say that nature shows some sense and intelligence2 therefore nature1 the world1 this great globe1 is ,god4 ,they quote from their great authority1 ,huxley1 who said that ,life was present potentially in matter when in the nebulous form and was unfolded from it by the way of natural development4 ,i am willing to admit it1 and to go one step further1 and say it was there before the nebul was formed in the electric currents of life and power1 which are the first manifestations of creative force4 ,the potentiality of all physical life was there in those electric currents1 but not the spirit or soul-life of man4 ,that came long after1 when the animal organism had been evolved and perfected4 ,yes1 truly1 in a natural sense1 as ,kingsley says3 ,water hates the oil with which it refuses to mix2 and lime loves the acid which it receives into itself1 and like a lover grows warm with the rapture of its affection4 ,this refusal of water and oil to mix is caused by electric repulsion1 and lime and acid is a simple form of electric attraction4 ,then the pantheists dwell on what they call the soul-life of plants1 the intelligence of birds and beasts1 and the regularity of seasons1 years1 and earth and sun revolutions1 and all natural phenomena1 which they say proves the world is ,god4 ,all of which ,i have endeavored to explain by electrical law and processes2 and they conclude all these things prove the pantheism of the universe4 ,let us notice some of the wonderful workings and transmutations in nature on which the advocates of pantheism rely4 ,mr4 ,titus1 as one of its champions1 says3 ,there is a common bond of unity between the different kingdoms of nature--the mineral1 vegetable and animal4 ,that there is some primal atomic or common condition1 some homogeneous substance in nature1 some elemental essence from the aggregations and combinations of which all forms are built up4 ,this is undoubtedly true1 and proves that in the atoms and electric laws of nature there are ample means for the creation of infinite substances and countless organic beings4 ,this does not prove pantheism4 ,it only proves progressive1 wise electric1 natural laws and forces4 ,this elemental essence from which all forms are built ,i have shown elsewhere to be the ocean of electro-magnetism permeating all space and all life forms4 ,he says3 ,the processes of digestion and assimilation in man furnish evidence of these things4 ,that the vegetable kingdom has power to assimilate earth and mineral and change it into vegetable1 and in turn is digested and assimilated by the animal1 and converted into an entirely different kingdom of nature4 ,this is true1 and ,i have shown how this is purely an electric process4 ,the dream of the alchemist1 of the transmutation of metals1 is mere child's-play compared with the processes of nature occurring every day in the human body4 ,these are all electric transmutations by means of respiration1 by digestion and assimilation of food1 whereby a great variety of substance is converted into blood and bone1 tissue and muscle1 and all the functions of life preserved4 ,it is also a correct statement that all forms of matter have as their basis one common element1 denominated primordial matter1 protoplasm and homogeneous substance1 all intended to designate the first form of matter4 ,this is true1 and we found the first form of matter to be the electric currents of space1 and the second form of matter to be the atom or molecule1 and afterwards came the primordial cell or protoplasm4 ,we also found that there was and is a common reservoir of life which stands back of its myriad manifestations upon the physical plane2 a great ocean of vitality1 which each organized being absorbs and gives out as we inhale and exhale the air we breathe4 ,and that reservoir of life is the vast ocean of electro-magnetism in which all things float and exist as in a sea of magnetic life-giving power4 ,the old hypothetical atom and stolid or solid matter was dead1 according to the scientists of a few decades ago4 ,but the electrician1 dealing with a higher grade of matter1 found that the old idea of matter as dead and inert was untrue1 and would not accord with the facts4 ,so that a new definition of an atom had to be formulated1 defining it as an electric center of force and motion4 ,and some physicists deem life to be co-eternal with matter4 ,which is not an unreasonable hypothesis as applied to physical life and substance4 ,prof4 ,tyndall in #ahgb said3 ,life was present potentially in matter when in the nebulous form1 and was unfolded from it by the way of natural development4 ,in this ,i agree with ,prof4 ,tyndall as to all life1 except the spiritual or psychic life of man4 ,and ,i have elsewhere tried to show how physical life came from the electric currents which formed the nebula1 and which was afterwards woven into the earth by electric and atomic assimilation4 ,ah6 now we come to the gist of all this scientific trouble--pessimistic1 agnostic and pantheistic4 ,it is this3 ,modern science is firmly rooted in the conviction that inherent powers and qualities gradually unfolded under the operation of natural laws1 rather than in a supernatural1 extra-cosmic volition introducing arbitrarily new forces4 ,and modern science is partly right4 ,she is right in her facts and her conclusions on this vital and basic point as to all physical creations and natural forces and powers4 ,but ,i insist that the creation of the soul or psychic life and powers of man are an exception1 and do not come within the domain of physical creations4 ,they are on a higher plane and as much above the realm of material forms and substances as our sun is above the earth4 ,they belong to the spiritual world1 to the realms of ,deity1 to the kingdom of ,god and the hosts of heaven4 ,they are a part of the great natural forces of the universe4 ,theologians call them supernatural forces1 but they are the natural creative and controlling forces that have sovereignty over all the vast and complicated forms of the visible1 material universe4 ,therefore on the physical facts of organic creation ,i agree generally with the scientists4 ,and if they had been informed in some of the vital and intelligent processes of electrical creation1 they would never have believed in pantheism1 or been pessimistic sceptics or hopeless agnostics4 ,and in my judgment the only thing that will redeem modern science from pantheism is the prevalent belief in and acceptance of the theory of electrical creation4 ,this will explain the harmony1 intelligence1 continuity and perfection of the physical universe1 and relieve their minds of all grounds for scepticism4 ,there is an intelligence or selective power in matter4 ,there is a great ,chemist-,physicist superintending nature's operations1 sorting out two parts of hydrogen and one of oxygen to compose the raindrop and the waters of the ocean4 ,it is no fortuitous concourse of atoms1 which accomplishes these results and preserves the life of the world4 ,it is the omniscient wisdom embraced in the laws and forces of electric energy1 which is the right hand of ,deity and the word of ,creative power4 ,to show the possibility and ease with which many of the ,bible miracles could have been performed by natural processes at the volition of ,divine power1 ,dr4 ,albert ,g4 ,geyser of ,new ,york ,city1 on ,may #ad1 #aijc1 according to the ,new ,york ,world1 elucidated many of the miracles by the use of electricity and the ,x-ray4 ,this he did before the members of the priesthood of the ,holy ,name ,society of ,st4 ,anselm's ,church1 to whom he said he felt he would be able to demonstrate that the miracles were in no way inconsistent with science4 ,after setting up his apparatus1 he said3 ,for centuries those who thought deeply on the matter have been puzzled with grave doubts as to the possibility of ,god being all-seeing and all-hearing4 ,what did the telephone reveal thirty years ago8 ,did it not reveal forces in nature that would allow men to hear voices at great distances8 ,and now1 thanks to the great ,roentgen invention of only nine years ago1 we are able to see through a four-foot wall simply by means of this puny apparatus4 ,then he set the great glass wheels of his battery in action and allowed his audience to look through pieces of thick timber1 and other solid bodies4 ,he showed how simple it was to produce a halo of electric fire about his head though he remained a distance of ten feet from the apparatus4 ,as he raised the two negative and positive poles to his head the electricity passed through and out of the crown of his head in a circle of flame4 ,then he compelled his machine to shoot jagged flashes of lightning4 ,then1 referring to the ,bible account of the descent of the ,holy ,ghost in a pillar of fire1 he called for volunteers1 and ,thomas ,mac,kaye came forward onto the platform4 ,he then placed two steel rods on each side of him1 and started his apparatus1 when tiny sparks began to jet off of ,mr4 ,mac,kaye's clothing4 ,soon the sparks grew to curling flames1 and the man's entire body became as a mass of writhing blue and white flame4 ,yet afterwards when he stepped from the platform not a thread of his clothing was singed4 ,rev4 ,father ,ruppert1 at the close1 said3 ,nothing ,i have ever seen has brought me to so fully understand ,god's miracles4 ,these pantheistic devotees are even trying to make waves of ether1 air and water intelligible things1 and seem to think they are in the nature of a circulating medium for this world-,god1 like blood is the circulating medium of man's body4 ,even so orthodox a scientist as ,prof4 ,serviss1 in the ,new ,york ,american of ,may #afth1 #aijc1 goes into panegyrics over waves and wave motion as follows3 ,the undulatory theory of energy is carrying everything before it4 ,it is not saying too much to aver that wave motion is concerned in nearly all the phenomena of physical life4444 ,think for a moment of what is included in the science of waves4 ,in the air all sounds1 all musical harmonies are waves2 in the solid globe1 all earthquakes are waves2 in the ether light1 electricity and heat are waves4 ,it is waves that make the stars visible1 and yet more mysterious oscillations picture for us on photographic plates marvelous nebulous objects4 ,lord ,kelvin has been credited with the statement that the fluttering of a butterfly's wing sets up vibrations that shake the universe4 ,this is superficial science1 for it explains nothing4 ,waves are simply a form of motion1 and a form of motion creates nothing4 ,vibrations of what8 ,wave motions of what8 ,our learned friend does not inform us4 ,vibrations and wave motions are like heat sensations1 they are not realities2 the force that creates them is the reality1 and they are but the mode or law of operation4 ,the reality--the force creating these vibrations and wave motions--is electricity4 ,yet he does not mention this fact or any cause1 but gives all the credit to the motion or manner of motion1 and ignores the cause1 which is the most important of all4 ,mr4 ,titus seems to think motion has consciousness1 for he states that1 the consciousness which is wrapped up in motion becomes more or less active in matter1 and that ,god sleeps in the atom1 and man is a potential deity4 ,these wonderful manifestations of electricity are used by these pantheists to bolster up their theory of these being manifestations of intelligence in nature4 ,and so they are1 but they should remember that nature is the art of ,god1 not ,god himself and ,god's art is wise and perfect4 ,we have a new definition of life given us which shows wonderful intelligence in the various parts of man's body4 ,it is by ,prof4 ,justus ,gaule of ,zurich4 ,in the ,american ,journal of ,psychology1 ,january1 #aijc4 ,he says3 ,the whole organism resembles a chemical laboratory with as many apartments as there are organs or glands4 ,as all chemical changes are electric changes1 a chemical laboratory is the same as an electric laboratory4 ,he continues3 ,the substances produced in each apartment are those needed in others either for their construction or for their work4 ,according to him life consists partly in a continual process of interchange and reconstruction1 at times sufficiently violent to tear muscles1 mutilate nerves and cause stoppage of blood--a process that goes on in the interior of the organism without external excitement4 ,herbert ,spencer defines life as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations1 but ,gaule's definition of life lays stress on the vital interplay between the parts of the organism1 which makes it a machine transforming external energy4 ,he asserts that the living organism is more than a machine1 because it does not create energy directly from combustible materials1 but only after building up its own tissues4 ,he says a machine does work1 but it does not create and repair itself like living organisms4 ,he would therefore modify the prevailing definition of organic life1 and make it not only a machine1 but more than a machine1 and emphasize the fact that life is as much an interaction between various parts of the organism as between the organism and the world of exterior matter4 ,he says one organ of the body may lose in bulk1 in order that others may increase4 ,this he has studied experimentally in the frog1 and finds that at one time the organs of sex grow at the expense of the muscles and liver1 and at another time the reverse is true1 and he insists that life is a continuous process of reconstruction within the vital organism4 ,this is an important addition to the definition of life and tends to support the electric theory1 for every function of the body is adapted to generate the electric energy needed for itself and other parts of its organism4 ,it is true that solid metals1 wood and stones are in a constant state of molecular motion4 ,according to ,sir ,norman ,lockyer1 the stones of which ,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral is built consist of millions of millions of small particles called molecules1 and although the structure seems absolutely at rest1 as if it would last forever2 yet1 when you get down into the intimate structure of each stone and every part of the fabric1 you get nothing but a multitudinous ocean of motion4 ,now1 ,mr4 ,titus says1 there is some inner hidden power which marshals and controls the innumerable host of molecules in all matter and keeps them whirling with tireless energy4 ,this is true1 and ,i fully agree with him4 ,but he thinks it is the world-,god in the atoms2 and ,i think it is electric energy--working under the intelligent laws of the world-,god1 the sun-,god and the ,god of the universe4 ,all these pantheistic scientists have never considered the wonderful powers and utilities of electric currents and electric energy which permeates all matter1 from atoms to worlds4 ,when they do so1 they will see in electricity an intelligent and powerful causality which will satisfy their minds and lead them away from pantheism and its follies4 ,they are great believers in evolution1 and so am ,i1 and what they require in evolution is1 the inherent power of the evolving entity to respond to external influences4 ,this being the requisite1 they have all they ask in the magnetic currents and electric energy pervading all nature4 ,it is a fact that the human body contains millions of microscopic organisms working under the dominion of one human life1 and1 in other words1 man is in his body a vast colony of microbes or protozoans supposed to be endowed with consciousness and volition4 ,a battle in germland is described by ,dr4 ,donald ,ross in investigating the microbes of malaria4 ,this was a fight between a malaria microbe1 and three phagocytes which are said to protect the purity of the blood4 ,he says3 ,while observing a malaria germ ,i saw a phagocyte make its way to the malaria germ with the intent of devouring it4 ,ordinarily this would be easy1 but the germ1 instead of allowing itself to be attacked1 attacked the phagocyte in a battle royal that lasted over fifteen minutes4 ,finally the germ drew off1 and hurried to where another phagocyte was wandering aimlessly4 ,it hurled itself on the second phagocyte1 pushing hard against it with its arms1 while the phagocyte tried to rear up and get around and envelope the germ1 but finally gave up and flattened itself against an air bubble1 while the germ still kept on pummeling it4 ,after fifteen minutes another phagocyte appeared coming rapidly across the field4 ,the germ then left its fallen foe and attacked the newcomer4 ,the third phagocyte got enough of it in about one minute and turned squarely around1 fleeing across the whole field1 the germ hanging on like a snake on a dog4 ,after five minutes the germ let go and the phagocyte slunk away4 ,the malaria germ had by this time reached the limits of its endurance in the rapidly weakening blood and finally attached itself to the glass of the slide and died4 ,few people can believe that such scenes as these may take place in the life-giving blood currents of their own bodies4 ,yet1 if we believe those who have studied the millions of microscopic life forms which live in our bodies1 such scenes may occur there4 ,according to biologists1 billions of microbes are generated in our bodies too infinitesimal to be observed by a microscope4 ,and they say their fermentation in countless numbers produces a poison which creates irritation1 the decrepitude of age and finally death4 ,they say visible microbes show intelligence4 ,engleman seems to hold that such facts as these and those connected with molecular organisms1 point to the presence of some psychic powers in the protoplasm4 ,but ,i do not think so4 ,they only show the wonderful and diversified powers of electric energy under divine law to evolve myriads of microscopic life that acts under intelligent electric impulses1 which in its matured form we call animal instinct4 ,thus we have traced conscious life from the dust out of which man's body was formed up through all the intervening kingdoms of nature until we reach man himself1 who is the only creature that possesses a spiritual nature1 a psychic soul1 and an immortal destiny4 ,from the grossest materialism man and human science is rising at last to the truth and conception of a spiritual world of so exalted an order1 and so sublime a reality1 that it has been said1 to connect the mind of man with the ,spirit of ,god4 ,all nature affirms that there is a ,supreme intelligence working through electric law within the manifest universe1 which is its living electric organism4 ,that all physical law and life are bound together in an all-embracing whole1 whose myriad aspects serve to mark the path of evolution1 and to spur each individual member on to progress and perfection4 ,that through the whole realm of nature the one electric life pulsates and stirs the smallest atom and the mightiest star4 ,but above all is the eternal power of ,deity and the deathless spirit of man1 blended in a stronger unity than that of nature1 linked in a joyous and an eternal destiny1 sovereigns of worlds1 rulers of suns and masters of the universe4 ,because of the perfect unity and harmony of the universe1 the wisdom and regularity of all its movements and functions1 and the apparent intelligence of its lower living organisms1 the agnostics embrace monism and pantheism4 ,but these are not good reasons4 ,they are better explained by the electrical theory of creation than by any other hypothesis ever offered in human history4 ,they show how and why this vast universe is a perfect1 harmonious organism1 in accordance with natural law4 ,this has never been attempted before4 ,nikola ,tesla asserts most truly that of all the views of nature1 the one which assumes one matter and one force1 and a perfect uniformity throughout1 is the most scientific and the most liable to be true4 ,electrical creation seems to fully comply with these requirements4 ,and ,prof4 ,crookes affirms that1 the seventy elements of our text books are not the pillars of ,hercules which we must never hope to pass4 ,while ,langley says there is only one force1 and light and heat are merely sensations4 ,and ,sir ,wm4 ,grove refers the causation of all forms of force to one omnipresent influence4 ,and all agree there is only one matter1 so they all seem to be approaching a universal belief in electrical creation4 ,and every argument made for pantheism and monism is an argument made for a stronger and better theory--the electric theory of creation4 ,and the champion of pantheism as well as the electric theory affirms3 ,since we are all bound together in one common enterprise in which progress is hastened through the harmony of its parts1 altruism becomes profound wisdom1 selfishness a mark of ignorance1 and the highest codes of ethics are the most scientific expression of nature's laws4 ,the superior power of this age consists in its superior ability to deal ingeniously and wisely with the tremendous forces concealed in matter1 and held subject to nature's law4 ,a knowledge and application of these forces and laws have been the means of marvelous progress1 untold blessings to humanity1 and have lifted life from its narrow bounds to a joyous1 ecstatic sense of the glory1 beauty and divineness of this world4 ,as the ancients saw this universe it was but a small flat island in a large ocean4 ,the vast expanse above it of space and stars was a crystal vaulted roof1 to keep the waters above from the waters below4 ,when it rained they said the windows of heaven were opened4 ,this little1 flat earth then rested on the shoulders of ,atlas1 or the back of four elephants1 who stood on a huge tortoise4 ,what a vastly different universe the people of modern times behold6 ,this little1 flat earth has expanded into a great globe1 spinning through space fifty times faster than a bullet from a rifle2 and the blue vault of heaven that to them was the end of the universe and a crystal wall to keep back the waters1 has opened out1 lifted up1 and broadened to an infinity of space containing countless suns and worlds4 ,where their narrow view saw only wonders1 miracles1 and innumerable myth-gods of superstition1 we see the orderly processes of nature proceeding under uniform laws1 propelled by one fundamental force--invisible electricity1 and formed from one matter or substance--the invisible atom4 ,and this vast and complex universe is the unveiling of the eternal thought of one ,almighty ,deity1 and the manifestations of ,his creative wisdom and power4 ,thus our earth becomes a divine revelation and man a spiritual wonder4 ,then there is a vast and mystic meaning in sea and land1 in valley and mountain1 in man and all living creatures2 and the day uttereth speech and the night showeth knowledge4 ,and all tell us ,god is in ,his heaven and in ,his earth1 and in man and in all ,his wonderful works1 and is ever present in spirit and electric power4 ,that ,he clothes the valleys with the verdure of prairie and forest1 the hills and mountains with beauty and grandeur1 and peoples the land and the sea with living creatures4 ,he gives fragrance to the flowers1 songs to the birds1 gladness to the sunshine and life and joy to all living4 ,in ,his infinite goodness ,he gives man vastly larger life and loftier powers than all other earthly beings1 so that they may not only wonder and adore2 but become co-workers with the ,infinite1 and understand and execute ,his eternal purpose1 and ,omnipotent ,will4 ,at last all thoughtful men are being brought face to face with that creative electric energy controlled by ,omniscient ,spirit1 which is felt in the magnetic sunshine1 seen in the falling rain1 the dew-drops1 the white-robed lily1 the blushing rose1 and the joy and gladness of life itself4 ,but above all things else there is bestowed on humanity the spiritual power and loving benediction of the ,great ,spiritual ,father1 who spread out the heavens as a curtain1 lifted up the mountains and started suns and worlds on the eternal pathway of their inscrutable destiny4 ,we of this generation were born into a little narrow world only six thousand years old1 soon to be destroyed by fervent heat2 a world cursed by its maker1 where the vast majority of its inhabitants were doomed to eternal punishment4 ,where human slavery was practiced and approved1 where the divine right of kings1 the degradation of the masses1 wars1 dueling1 ox teams and slow coaches predominated4 ,we now live in a world of electrical wonders1 marvelous luxuries and personal freedom1 that has millions of years behind it and eternity before it4 ,time enough to solve all problems1 dispel all ignorance and discover all truth4 ,recent experiments by ,prof4 ,goodspeed of the ,pennsylvania ,university prove that man is a magnet and electric organism which gives out an aurora or light from his body so that cats1 mice and other animals may see him in the dark4 ,he has also taken photographs from the electric light or rays from the human hand4 ,this was also done by ,french scientists six years ago and is mentioned in ,invisible ,light4 ,on ,may #bfth1 #aijc1 ,prof4 ,percy ,lowell1 of ,flagstaff ,observatory1 ,arizona1 announced that a brilliant projection has been discovered on the planet ,mars1 and was seen for thirty-five minutes4 ,some think it is ,mars signalling to us2 others that it is a snow-capped mountain1 or a luminous cloud2 but all agree that it shows ,mars to be inhabited4 ,prof4 ,j4 ,a4 ,fleming of the ,london ,university1 seems to agree with my conception of electricity4 ,he also considers it as a refined matter and the electron as the atom of electricity1 in the ,popular ,science ,monthly of ,june1 #aijc4 ,he asserts that3 ,the electron isolated presents itself as electricity of the negative kind2 and in combination with co-electrons and other electrons it forms the atoms of ponderable matter4 ,at rest the electrons or co-electrons constitute an electric charge1 and when in motion it is an electric current4 ,a steady flux or drift of electrons in one direction1 and co-electrons in an opposite direction1 is a continuous electric current1 while their mere oscillation about a mean position is an alternating current4 ,the vibration of an electron1 if sufficiently rapid1 enables it to establish electric waves in the ether2 this is the cause or foundation of wireless telegraphy4 ,the electrons or atoms of electricity can1 in some cases1 make their way1 freely1 between the atoms of ponderable matter4 ,where this can take place easily1 we call the material a good conductor4 ,electrons in their free condition constitute electricity1 and the electrons are atoms of electricity4 ,these electrons and their currents of electricity1 ,i contend1 are the creative cosmic force of the universe1 evolving all visible form and substance1 and producing all light1 heat1 vital force and so called gravitation4 ,radium is one form of electricity or electrons in marvelous combination and are said to have the power1 first1 of giving out light perpetually without any exciting cause2 second1 to emit rays that penetrate solids like ,x-rays2 third1 the property of acting on sensitized plates2 fourth1 of causing air to conduct electricity2 and fifth1 the emission of heat4 ,sir ,oliver ,lodge1 in a ,may1 #ahic1 ,london periodical1 shows the advance of science in recognizing the forces of nature and the dominion of mind and spirit over the material world4 ,he affirms that3 the whole effort of civilization would be futile if we could not guide the powers of nature4 ,the powers are there1 else we should be helpless2 but life and mind are outside of these powers and can direct them along an organized course4 ,and this same life or mind1 as we know it1 is accessible to petition1 to affection1 to pity1 to a multitude of non-physical influences2 and hence1 indirectly the little plot of physical universe which is now our temporary home has become amenable to truly spiritual control4 ,this sustains my contention that the spirit life of man is outside of matter and material powers and can control and direct them4 ,this is truth1 well spoken1 and illustrates the electric theory1 for the powers of nature is the electric energy in nature1 and this is guided1 and under the control of mind and spirit--the mind or spirit of man and the omnipotent spirit of ,deity4 ,and the future will reveal the wonderful controlling power of mind over matter through electric energy4 ,as the sun may send to each planet a different vibration or current of wireless electricity1 and each planet will receive only such current as it attracts and to which it is attuned2 so the message of ,deity to the souls of men will only reach and affect those souls which are attuned to receive them4 ,this in the vast realms of nature is the law of electric or mutual attraction1 and in the invisible realms of spirit the same universal law applies4 ,this great principle of mutual attraction1 receptivity and mutual adjustment governs everywhere in the universal realms of nature and truth4 ,rev4 ,david ,j4 ,burrell1 in his sermon on ,wireless ,messages of ,god1 sets forth some strong scientific reasons why the natural man cannot discern spiritual things4 ,under this universal law of mutual adjustment he says3 ,if you strike a tuning fork keyed to middle ,c it will awaken a response in another fork1 provided the latter is keyed to the same pitch1 but not otherwise4 ,and he applies it to men who respond to spiritual influences and those who are spiritual non-conductors4 ,this is the basic fact in wireless telegraphy4 ,at ,cape ,cod there is a transmitting station consisting of four steel towers with a bunch of wires suspended from the top and meeting at a common point like an inverted cone4 ,if the power be applied to the apex of this cone the wires begin to tremble2 and the current1 oscillating at a rate say of nine hundred thousand vibrations per second1 creates a series of corresponding vibrations in the ether1 just as a stone cast into a lake sends out concentric circles4 ,this ether wave or message speeds outward with incalculable rapidity in search of its receiver2 and it will cross the ocean to find it4 ,now1 there is such a receiver at ,poldhu1 in ,cornwall1 where the wires are precisely attuned to the transmitter at ,cape ,cod2 that is1 their vibrations are the same1 say nine hundred thousand per second2 so that the message sent from ,cape ,cod meets no response until it finds its sympathetic station at ,poldhu1 and this attracts and welcomes it4 ,marconi's system of wireless telegraphy is not an invention1 but a discovery of a natural law or process which has been going on continuously through all the realms of space since time began4 ,the sun as the great source and center of energy in our solar system is constantly sending out messages of light and life to his family of planets4 ,it is a scientific fact clearly proven that a ray of light is an electric wireless message from the sun to the earth1 and it could not be received unless the earth attracted it1 and was attuned to it4 ,for here the same law prevails between sun and earth that no message can be received except by some object which is sympathetically attuned to it4 ,prof4 ,pupin suggests that a beam of light representing a certain number of vibrations per second1 intended to convey the color red1 is sent forth from the sun4 ,it speeds through space until it reaches the earth2 where intent upon its eager quest it passes unresting through all the meadows1 since no grass-blade is adjusted to receive it2 no daisy or buttercup1 no lily or heliotrope being disposed to welcome it2 it passes over all gardens until it finds a rose2 and here it pauses and finds welcome4 ,why8 ,because the rose has a natural affinity for it1 and like two lovers in mutual affection they meet and embrace each other1 and are blended in the harmonious union of nature's electric law of life1 growth and beauty4 ,the same law of mutual attraction and wireless telegraphy creates the lofty elm1 the towering oak1 the blade of grass and the waving fields of golden grain in the ,autumnal harvest4 ,dr4 ,burrell makes an apt and beautiful illustration of these truths of nature in their analogy to spiritual laws4 ,he says3 ,this process which has been discovered to be so prevalent in nature has infinite field and scope of operation in the province of spiritual things4 ,god as the great transmitter of truth bears to the spiritual world a relation corresponding to that of the sun in the natural world4 ,assuming that there is a ,god1 and that we are created in his image and after his likeness1 it follows as an inevitable conclusion that ,he will somehow reveal himself to his children and hold converse with them4 ,but here is the application of the principal referred to3 ,the man who would hear the wireless messages of ,god must ,himself be attuned or adjusted to the character of ,god4 ,this is superlative truth that all wise men should consider and not have occasion to lament1 like ,charles ,darwin1 at the close of his long life of physical investigation1 that he had starved his spiritual nature4 ,for our thoughts depend on our receptive natures and our lives are just what we make them1 and our future is according to our character and the inscrutable laws of life and destiny4 ,o6 the wisdom of the wisest2 ,o6 the goodness of the good6 ,gleaning through the sweep of ages where ,divinity hath stood1 ,shining footprints of celestials1 through the mystic gleaming bars1 ,of the ever past and present speaking in the earth and stars4 ,how they teach the lofty spirit of the beautiful ,beyond1 ,of ,god's uttered truth and goodness1 if but yearning souls respond4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,what ,,is ,,said ,,of ,,cities ,,of ,,the ,,sun ,by ,,george ,,woodward ,,warder ,you have struck out on original and alluring lines of thought and investigation in which you stand alone4 ,it must be a thrilling sensation to blaze a new trail for the coming march of men4 ,the great highways of present knowledge were once obscure and hidden paths4--,lord ,salisbury4 ,he has the scientific knowledge of ,flammarion combined with the fancy of ,jules ,verne4--,nicola ,tesla4 ,i am reading with much interest your remarkable book4 ,i am deeply interested and profited by its study4 ,it is grand1 cheering1 helpful4--,rev4 ,dr4 ,r4 ,s4 ,mac,arthur4 ,your book has impressed me very greatly for its learning1 research and intellectual force4--,gen4 ,john ,w4 ,noble 7,ex-,secretary of the ,interior47 ,its arguments are carefully worked up on scientific lines and it is interesting reading from cover to cover4--,new ,york ,tribune4 ,few writers have ventured such boldly frank opinions4 ,his style is polished and sometimes brilliant1 while his thoughts are presented with lucid directness4--,n4 ,y4 ,evening ,telegram4 ,it is a fascinating work which goes intelligently and with scientific plausibility into speculations concerning the destinies of ,men and the ,universe4--,the ,new ,york ,world4 ,so much has been accomplished by electricity in the last few years that no person can come forward and say with reason that the electric theory of ,col4 ,warder is not correct4--,denver ,republican4 ,your books are intensely interesting and instructive4 ,i accept their theories and believe they will finally prevail and revolutionize scientific thought4 ,have read them three times4--,dr4 ,l4 ,m4 ,taylor 7,scientist1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c474 ,i know no greater favor that ,i can bestow on my friends than to present them your book1 ',the ,cities of the ,sun4' ,it will give them new thoughts and teach them to think4 ,send me fifty volumes to-morrow4--,col4 ,henry ,h4 ,adams1 #agg ,broadway1 ,new ,york4 #abmo4 ,cloth ,bound1 #a4ej ,,what ,,is ,,said ,,of ,,invisible ,,light ,by ,,george ,,woodward ,,warder ,col4 ,warder's book has attracted gratifying attention among literary and scientific people4 ,his theory of electrical creation has been fully discussed and approved by many scientific men1 and his new publication1 ',invisible ,light1' will give the critics and scientists something new to puzzle over4--,the ,kansas ,city ,world4 ,perhaps no writer on a scientific subject has quite equaled ,col4 ,warder in boldness of treatment1 and characteristic imagery of presentment4 ,he repudiates the law of gravity1 and adopts electricity as the evolving force in ,creation1 and proclaims the sun to be inhabited4--,the ,kansas ,city ,journal4 ,if he fails to break up the existing scientific theories it will not be his fault4 ,we have read his work with interest1 and whatever the opinion of scientific critics the fact remains that it contains ample and original food for thought4--,atlanta ,constitution4 ,he claims electricity is the medium and agency of ,creative power in the evolution of the universe4 ,that the sun is inhabitable1 and the spiritual center and promised heaven of the ,solar ,system4 ,the reader will be forced to admit that he furnishes good proof for all his assertions4--,the ,kansas ,city ,mail4 ,he holds there are only three elemental substances in nature1 spirit1 electricity and matter4 ,matter is controlled by electricity and electricity is controlled by spirit intelligence4 ,that in discovering electricity man has found the working force of ,deity1 and uses it in all fields of human effort4 ,the arguments are convincing1 and the book attractive and entertaining4--,the ,kansas ,city ,star4 ,he presents the most advanced theories concerning modern science1 and claims they are not antagonistic to the ,mosaic ,scriptures4 ,every page abounds with polished diction and glowing imagery1 and his thoughts are equal to the best of the world's greatest thinkers4--,the ,chillicothe ,constitution4 ,you have rendered a service to the world by affording so much food for thought1 and directing attention to the important subjects of which you treat4--,col4 ,f4 ,f4 ,hilder 7,bureau ,ethnology1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c474 ,the book is the best exposition of the physics and metaphysics of the universe ,i have ever read4--,wm4 ,c4 ,boteler1 ,m4,d41 ,editor and ,prop4 ,north ,american ,medical ,journal4 #abmo1 ,cloth ,bound1 #a4ej