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ment when he says : "In other cases the electricity is 

 derived from the heat of consuming coal, while the 

 coal is the product of the sun's rays, chemically 

 sealed up in the coal deposits of the early geological 

 ages. Indeed it is easy to see that all the available 

 force in the world is the product of the sun's rays." 

 In this we fully agree, for I say the heat of the 

 coal and the heat of the sun is electricity. The 

 sun's rays, which he says "is all the available force 

 in the world," is electricity, and the sun is the great 

 electric heart of the solar system. Thus we differ 

 only in terms. While he whips electricity around the 

 stump, and say it is a new thing every time he 

 turns a corner, I say it is the same electricity, with- 

 out any change, and. proves the oneness of the uni- 

 verse as a vast electric organism. 



Thus our great scientists befog themselves. Now 

 that Langley says there is only one radiant matter, 

 and light, heat and chemical changes are all one 

 entity, perhaps he may change his view. I have 

 tried to convince these crosseyed reasoners that all 

 force is one force and all matter is one matter, and 

 the scientists are now coming to that conclusion 

 steadily. 



Prof. Wright says again : "The strength and 

 warmth of all animal bodies is traceable to carbon, 

 and whenever we move a limb or walk, the power to 

 doit is obtained by the consumption of carbon." Well, 

 I say carbon is one form of stored electricity. He 

 says: "The ox feeds upon the grass which is col- 

 lected or grows through the influence of sunlight," 

 and I say sunlight is electric currents from the 

 great electric dynamo, the sun. 



He says : "The nebular theory is faulty," and J 



