THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. 



IT has been previously stated that electricity and 

 magnetism are material motion in special forms 

 or modes, and only in operation when material 

 motion takes those forms or modes. Lightning is 

 electricity. It is admitted that lightning takes the 

 line of least resistance, as any physical force will do. 

 This means that lightning follows the path of the 

 best conducting material, and that it is surrounded 

 by matter of less conductivity, it is insulated. It is 

 not necessary to remind electricians that insulating 

 matter may have a higher or lower rate of conductive 

 capacity, all that is necessary for it to be able to 

 insulate, however imperfectly, is that it should not 

 conduct as well as the matter along which the 

 lightning finds its path. This suggests the thought 

 that electricity is of the nature of material motion 

 and stress within an envelope, or it may be several 

 envelopes with varying degrees of insulation. 



This may be new, but is none the less true. Nature 

 is in a state of continual flux, as a result the portions 

 of matter are more closely packed (or differently 

 arranged) in some places than in others, where 

 more closely packed the insulation is greater, where 

 more free the conductivity is greater, with freer 



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