70 From Matter to Man. 



of all the elements in the earth are equally with iron, 

 magnets with poles and polarity. This is a sweeping 

 conclusion, but inevitable. What is true of a small 

 magnet is in principle true also of a large one ; 

 hence, if the earth be a magnet, its reduction to atoms 

 should yield the result already authorised in the re- 

 duction of a small iron magnet. Thus, if we broke the 

 earth in two, we should not have two earths with only 

 one pole each, but two earths with two poles each. 

 If these halves in turn be broken, the quarters shall 

 also be magnets with two poles each. Thus we con- 

 tinue as in the former illustration, until by imagination 

 we reach the smallest particle or ultimate atom of the 

 earth, when the inevitable deduction must also be 

 conceded, that every particle of every substance and 

 every atom of every element in the earth is, equally 

 with the earth itself, a magnet with poles and polarity. 

 This is a most potent fact for materialistic evolution, 

 as we shall see anon. 



Again, if instead of breaking a magnet, we welded 

 a number of small iron magnets into one monster bar, 

 the product would be, not numerous magnets with 

 numerous poles, but one magnet with two poles. 

 Similarly with the earth. . Its every constituent 

 magnetic atom does not retain (absolutely) its indi- 

 vidual energy, but merges it (partially, at least) into 

 the earth's combined energy ; consequently the atoms 

 do not evolve a planet bristling with innumerable 

 poles, but the earth careering through space as one 

 huge magnet with two poles. 



