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female microbe perform many other such antics. 

 In this respect they seem to resemble all the higher 

 animals, including the human. Nothing but a 

 psychic faculty can account for this. 



It would seem, therefore, that the being endowed 

 with the very lowest and tiniest form of life on 

 earth, yet possesses a faculty the same in kind with 

 that of all higher forms of life, including man. 

 This capacity for thought in the microbe may be 

 as much smaller than it is in the human being as 

 the microbe is smaller in stature than the human 

 being, as much simpler as the organism of the 

 microbe is simpler than the organism of the man, 

 yet it is absolutely the same in kind. It fol- 

 lows, therefore, that, inasmuch as the microbe, by 

 a long process of Evolution reaching through the 

 ages, has come from the ether, the ether itself must 

 contain the original psychic principle, else by no 

 process of Evolution could the psychic faculty be 

 developed from the ether. The germ of the intel- 

 lect must be contained in the fountain head, else 

 no intellectual result can flow therefrom. 



In a nutshell: Matter must exist potentially in 

 the Ether, else worlds could not be evolved there- 

 from. 



Life must exist potentially in the Ether, else by 

 no process of Evolution could come therefrom all 

 the living beings on the Earth. 



Thought must exist potentially in the Ether, else 

 from it could not be developed all degrees of in- 

 tellect from the microbe to man. 



