PRODUCES PHENOMENA OF NATURE 35 



in this new life, we are justified in affirming that 

 electric and radiant matter must have bridged the 

 chasm between the old lives and the new, between 

 parental duality and the dual forces of electricity 

 that produced a new germinal individuality. And 

 the new life cannot be possible without the separate 

 unfolding of two distinct organisms meeting in gen- 

 erative embrace, imparting a new seed-life. All germ 

 life has its beginning where positive and negative 

 magnetic currents blend into unity. 



The germinal life and the food supply of plant 

 and animal fix the boundaries of its being. There 

 can be no evolution of plant life into animal life. 

 It is not scientific or rational; vegetable, plant 

 and tree have no independent existence separate 

 from the soil of the earth except as latent in seed 

 form. 



As all material organisms take on their organic 

 form around electric or magnetic centers drawing 

 their atoms from electrical currents, so all life-germs 

 take their growth from the magnetic centers of 

 their growing forms. Here in the field of electric 

 forces is to be found the generative forces of organic 

 matter the mysterious births from all parental 

 life. And the constantly revolving circle of periodic 

 changes of growth and decay, of life and death, of 

 seed beginning and seed producing like sunshine 

 and shadow, light and darkness are opposite points 

 in the circle of electric force and physical life. The 

 growing and dying life-forms intervene between these 

 two points of rest and renewal, of attraction and 

 repulsion, of positive organism and negative diffu- 

 sion of matter. 



They are the results of the great electric system 



