integrating thera. In truth, there is no branch of 



science, from the lowest to the highest, which does not 

 immediately begin to unfold its interminable mys- 

 teries to the clear light of ordinary perception under 

 the application of this hitherto unrecognized truth. 

 It also places within the keeping of science the means 

 of recognizing the transformation of matter in the 

 phenomenon of human death, and it no doubt will, in 

 the near future, it is my firm belief, furnish indis- 

 putable evidence, to be recognized and accepted by the 

 sciences of to-day, of the existence of the soul after 

 death. 



Before enumerating a few of the discoveries which 

 1 have mentioned, it will be necessary for me to 

 call your attention to a few facts, in order that you 

 may clearly understand their exact nature and 

 outlines. You are aware that the securing of -all 

 knowledge, which the world is wont to call science, 

 is through the exercise of human sense, and particu- 

 larly through that of the eye and ear. One of the 

 discoveries made by myself is that the functions 

 of the various parts of the eye have always heretofore 

 been misunderstood; that they do not exist solely 

 for the purpose of refracting and converging rays of 

 "light" (a dubious term), hut for the additional 

 purpose of offering media for the continuity of like 

 matter through the atmosphere, through transparent 

 matter, through the eye to the optic nerve of 

 the retina, and thence, through similar matter of the 

 nerves, to the brain. The function of the lachrymal 

 glands not only aids their effect, hut operates the 

 additional function of presenting at all times a base 

 to mitigate the acid that is present in light. 



The other preliminary fact to which 1 wish to call 

 your attention is thai the processes of the securing 

 of all knowledge are conducted in an atmosphere 

 the constituents of which have never, since the 

 foundations of the world were laid, been definitely 



