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pel our street-cars. They may as well work 

 as to be idle as they go. 



But in all this, startling as it seems, man is 

 only imitating Nature in her every-day oper- 

 ations through sun and earth. Even the order 

 is similar. The sun* is the river giving its 

 constant impulse through the vito-magnetic 

 cable of the solar cone. The earth end of 

 the cable is adjusted by means of the atmos- 

 phere, for the production of light and heat 

 for this earthly habitation. 



It indues the globe with magnetic influence 

 which we have called gravity. And in its 

 workshop, its mechanical and vital forces are 

 keeping up all motions in animal and plant, 

 earth, ocean, and air. 



And thus light, heat, gravity, mechanical 

 power, electricity, magnetism, vital force and 

 universal motion, are but one principle vari- 

 ously expressed. This principle we have 

 designated vito-magnetic fluid. But have we 

 reached a climax and an end ? No. This 

 vito-magnetic river or current flows on. Its 

 flood is never stayed. But yet we find no 

 accumulation. Light and heat have neither 

 been piled up to the sky, nor have they be- 

 come annihilated. Their essential element 

 has only changed form, and proceeded on its 



