28 THE UNIVERSE 



currents to the sun and they return to the earth 

 through the ether in the same manner and com- 

 plete their circuit. Thus there are vast highways 

 and boulevards of ek.cric currents passing from 

 suns to planets and from planets to suns which are 

 pathways to the stars and the great highways 

 of eternity, on which invisible atoms, and perhaps 

 invisible human souls, may pass from earth to suns 

 and central suns. In the future, man will turn the 

 searchlight of investigation upon electricity as the 

 universal operating cause of all physical phenomena. 

 He will solve the riddle of the universe by its subtle 

 invisible forces. He will cease to regard creation 

 as vast constellations of burning spheres whirling 

 through frigid ether. He will look upon it with 

 wonder and inspiration as a vast self-controlling, 

 life-evolving, varied but unchanging unity, a perfect 

 whole a vast electric organism of omnipotent power 

 and eternal existence. He will regard electricity as 

 the finger touch of Deity that makes the world go 

 round, that marks out the orbits of suns and the 

 pathway of constellations, and guides them in their 

 mysterious courses to their eternal and inscrutable 

 destiny. 



