56 THOUGHTS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 



accumulators and stored there for future use. The 

 only way in which it is possible for this storage to 

 take place, is in the increased speed of movement, 

 and consequent differences of arrangement of the 

 small portions of matter composing the chemical 

 substances in the accumulators. When the stored- 

 up energy is run off by the current, to produce 

 electric light, or in the performance of other electrical 

 work, the speed of the portions runs down ; and the 

 chemical changes *vary from that to this, and from 

 this to that, as the energy is forced in or run off. 



The electric lamp also gives convincing proof. 

 The light is caused by the ether waves. Something 

 must have set them in motion ; we know that it is 

 electricity that has done this. The ether is matter 

 (see page 59) ; to produce this special motion of 

 ether-matter that gives the light, other matter must 

 have communicated motion to it (otherwise you get 

 the unthinkable proposition that no-mass non-exten- 

 sion can act, without any point of contact, upon 

 mass or extension) ; and this other moving matter 

 must be the electricity, therefore electricity is matter 

 in motion, or material motion. The ether can be 

 traced from the dynamo to the electric light : and as 

 the ether is matter, it is clear that this ether-matter, 

 in moving through the tfilaments of the lamp, agitates 

 the material ether surrounding the lamp into the 

 necessary wave motion to give the sensation of 

 light. 



* Remember this when you come to the living cell, 

 t The material atoms composing the filaments are also agitated, 

 acted upon and reacting on the ether. 



