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name will do for it. In it and by it we live and move 

 and have our being. Ever present, eternal and omni- 

 potent, we may if we like call this Ether God, a God 

 not to be praised, prayed to and flattered, but to be 

 known and OBEYED. It follows, so long as the components 

 of this world are as they are, and the fluid Ether circu- 

 lates amongst those components, life will be always 

 regenerating. We are born and re-born. We were born 

 and re-born. We shall be born and re-born. And at a 

 rate so fast that from death to re-life is a relatively short 

 interval of time. For remember we live in eternity. 1 



The answer comes we have individually no idea of 

 having been re-born the past is oblivion. 2 This is 

 true. But we know we were once born no human 



1 " We have long known, even from the structure of the stratified 

 crust of the earth alone, that its origin and the formation of neptuiiic 

 rocks from water must have taken, at least, several millions of years, 

 From a strictly philosophical point of view, itmakes no difference whether 

 we hypothetical^ assume for this process ten millions or ten thousand 

 billions of years. Before us and behind us lies eternity." (" The 

 History of Creation," Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 1892, vol. i. pp. 132.) 



" We can as little imagine a first beginning of the eternal phenomena 

 of the motion of the universe as of its final end." ..." The universe 

 is unlimited and immeasurable in both space and time. It is 

 eternal, and it is infinite. Nor can we imagine a beginning or end to 

 the uninterrupted and eternal motion in which all particles of the 

 universe are always engaged. The great laws of the conservation of 

 force and the conservation of matter, the foundations of our whole 

 conception of nature, admit of 110 other supposition." (Idem, p. 398.) 



2 " We talk of immortality, but what we were before we were 

 born, or what we shall be after we die, what soul, consciousness,, 

 personal identity, really are, how they came to be indissolubly con- 

 nected with matter, and what they will be when that union is dissolved,, 

 are mysteries as to which we can only make guesses, like the Brahmins 

 and Buddhists, whose guess is transmigration, or the Red Indians, 

 whose guess is a happy hunting-ground beyond the setting sun."- 

 (" Problems of the Future," S. Laing, 1894, p. 19-1.) 



