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revolving dynamo, is the same force and operated 

 tinder the same law or mode of force as the electric 

 life-giving currents that come from the sun con- 

 stantly in an omnipotent tide of power. 



Prof. Thomson says : "The earth is generally found 

 to be negatively electrified, and is insulated in its 

 atmosphere, being in fact a conductor touched only 

 by air a strong insulator." 



He says further : "The quality of non-resistance to 

 electric force of the interplanetary ether being con- 

 sidered, the earth, the atmosphere and the surround- 

 ing medium may be regarded as constituting re- 

 spectively, the inner coating, the dielectric and the 

 outer coating of a large Lay den jar charged nega- 

 tively." 



Prof. S. P. Thomson in "Electricity and Mag- 

 netism," says : "Gilbert made the discovery that the 

 compass points north and south because the earth 

 is also a great magnet. Faraday said : 'All matter 

 is in a magnetic condition.' Sir Oliver Lodge says : 

 1 The idea that magnetism is a whirl of electricity is 

 as old as Ampere. Perceiving that a magnet 

 could be initiated by an electric whirl, he made the 

 hypothesis that an electric whirl existed in every 

 magnet.' " 



Maxwell announced the proposition that electro- 

 magnetic phenomena and light phenomena have 

 their origin in the same medium and are identical 

 in nature. Hertz, by actually producing, detecting 

 and controlling electric waves, caused the discovery 

 of wireless electricity. And it is by the wonderful 

 wireless telegraphy of light that man is put in com- 

 munication with every considerable body in the 

 universe, including even the invisible. By it the 



