240 ELECTRIC CHAIN OF THE UNIVERSE. 



itself only when independent of the circling plan 

 ets of the solar system ; for certain it is, that all 

 the visible matter in the material universe is in 

 volved in the general circular whirls from which 

 the descriptive name of " universe " is originally 

 borrowed. 



The mechanical action of the revolving heavenly 

 bodies, transmitted as sunshine to the leaves of 

 plants, puts in motion circulating currents of the 

 electric ether and of sap therein ; and, by transfer 

 as food, also in living animal organisms. At the 

 instant when the internal circulating currents 

 cease in these subordinate electrical machines, by 

 death, the ever-continuing action of the revolving 

 planets, transmitted as sunshine, again predom- 

 inates over the constituent molecules of the or- 

 ganic bodies of plants and animals. 



The sunshine that quickens the formation of 

 vapors into a budding rose, radiant in color and 

 redolent with fragrance, speedily dissolves the 

 gathered rose into vapors that float off in the air. 

 So in the organic formation of man, immediately 

 after the excited currents of electricity and of 

 blood cease to circulate " in the inner sanctuary 

 of life," the vibratory sunshine gradually restores 

 the constituent molecules to their original state 

 of invisible gases, floating in the atmosphere. 



Thus, finally, modern science confirms the 

 ancient answer to the question, " What is your 



