THE PATH OF EVOLUTION 



are related in such a manner that they are subject to 

 the same laws that they are alike incapable of anni- 

 hilation, or of being formed by man for nothing. 

 The study of the manifold manifestations of energy, 

 through whose action all phenomena appear, has 

 shown that all are but the protean, or ever changing 

 forms of one inscrutable, unknown power, everywhere 

 existing, uncreatable and indestructible; without 

 which there can be no motion, and which is the 

 source and cause of all motion. Through it are pro- 

 duced and by it only exist what we know as Heat, 

 Light, Electricity, Physical Motion, Chemical Action, 

 Life in plants and in animals, Sensation, Conscious- 

 ness and Volition. The intelligence that is manifested 

 in the reason of man is brought by it, for beyond 

 this power is the intelligence of the Omniscient that 

 rules the Universe. 



This protean Energy finds its simplest expression 

 in the Cosmic Ether that penetrates this world and 

 extends beyond the limits of the Stellar Universe. 

 It is the carrier from the Sun to us of Heat, Light, 

 Electricity, and of all the phenomena of Life. All 

 we know of it, is what it brings to us. Of the ab- 

 solute nature of the Energy in the Ether and in the 

 Universe we know little or nothing. The VOLITION 

 that is back of it and of other phenomena is only 

 known to us as that FIRST CAUSE that is the 



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