MIND IS FUNCTION 165 



ENERGY. One gramme of radium produces as much 

 energy as the burning of one ton of coal. Where does 

 this energy emanate? It is a natural element existing 

 throughout the universe. Wherever there is motion, 

 some of this energy is causing it. It is not independent 

 of matter. In fact, if electricity is molecular in its 

 composition, then it is matter. All matter is the aggre- 

 gation of these corpuscles of radium and electricity. 

 The brain matter is only a differentiated form of it. 

 According to the researches of Sir J. J. Thompson, 

 Rutherford, Professor Strutt, Joly, and others, ordinary 

 matter contains immense stores of energy, and when by 

 the metabolic process in the human brain a molecule 

 is disintegrated, and its energy is released, we can well 

 believe that the psychic phenomenon resulting can be 

 attributed to this cause alone; for, if at any time an 

 appreciable fraction of the energy in ordinary matter, 

 held in bounds by the corpuscle, were to get free, the 

 earth would explode and become a gaseous nebula. 

 The intense energy of the sun does the work of the 

 world, and all the psychic phenomena of its inhabitants. 

 It is stored up, not only in its coal, and its waterfalls, 

 but in the food with which our bodies are built up and 

 sustained. This energy of the sun transferred as carbon 

 to the vegetation, is transformed into the atoms of the 

 brain, and released by metabolism into all its activities. 

 It is thrown out from the sun, modified by our atmos- 

 phere, and stored in the soil and rocks of the Solid 

 body. We could not exist without all the mediums of 

 transference of energy, our bodies and brain receiving 

 their life through the chain, and eventually giving back, 

 in some form, either physical or mental, all that we 

 receive. So that, as far as we can see, there is going on 

 a process of transference of energy which had no begin- 



