4O Evolution of Life and Form. 



not inertia be neutralised as well as gravity ? May 

 there not be potential matter, and may there not be 

 such in space, without any of the attributes which 

 characterise matter, but ready { to be vivified and form 

 a system of worlds ? Here we have H. P. B.'s atoms 

 and laya centres, put forward tentatively as a scien- 

 tific problem. Science is mounting into the invisi- 

 ble world and is trying to measure and to weigh that 

 which therein it finds. Now this tendency to unity 

 is the testimony to the One that underlies all 

 manifestation ; only one Force, only one Matter ; 

 endless diversity of forces, transmutable into each 

 other ; endless diversity of forms, which break up 

 again to recombine ; only one Force under all 

 forces, one Matter under all forms. It is seen 

 that the very fact of harmony and of evolution 

 points to'a root unity, and that eternally independent 

 self-moving particles would only perpetuate a 

 chaos. 



As science travels along this most hopeful line, 

 we find great changes are arising in the nature of 

 the studies that are being carried on, and we have 

 that wonderful theory of Sir William Crookes of 

 the genesis of the elements. He takes protyle as a 

 starting-point, which is really Vayu in its form on 

 this physical plane Prithivi Vayu and out of 

 that builds one atom after another, making all the 



