THE NEW KNOWLEDGE. 



PART I. 

 CURRENT CONCEPTIONS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE THREE ENTITIES. 



When a man begins to think, seriously, of the world, or 

 worlds, around about him, he is at first dazed by the seeming 

 complexity of it all. Thousands of phenomena confront 

 him, inextricably tangled, and there seems to be no simple 

 way of co-ordinating them. That the universe must be 

 harmonious, is a fundamental demand of our human nature. 

 Nor is this faith misplaced. Just so soon as we actually 

 begin to sort things out, matters proceed with gratifying 

 smoothness and it soon becomes apparent that one may 

 place all he knows of this universe of space and time into 

 just exactly three compartments. These compartments we 

 shall label: 



1. MATTER. 



2. ETHER. 



3. ENERGY. 



These are three physical entities, outside of which, so 



