A VAST ELECTRIC ORGANISM 15 



This is an age of dominant mind, the develop- 

 ment of a cycle of invisible forces. The past century 

 was the age of matter. It is said Darwin, Tyndall, 

 Haeckel and Huxley did a work which had to be 

 done. But their work was limited to chemical and 

 biological demonstration. It was science, but science 

 of the old school. The discoveries since made in the 

 domain of electricity and mental transmission make 

 their discoveries seem trivial in comparison. 



Francis Grierson says : "The discoveries and in- 

 ventions of the past ten years have made child's play 

 of every previously known system of philosphy. 

 The simple but amazing facts disclosed during the 

 past five years render the dreams, speculations and 

 guesswork of the past absurd. The little we know 

 in a practical way is more than all the philosophers 

 of the past knew, from Aristotle to Liebnitz." 



I contend that the universe is a vast electric or- 

 ganism. That all light, heat, and vital force is 

 generated by electric energy in the dense magnetic 

 atmosphere of suns and planets, where alone it is 

 needed for animal and vegetable life, and in vol- 

 canic pockets or circuits in the outer crust of these 

 bodies caused by electric repulsion. That the uni- 

 verse began in extreme cold, not heat, that the 

 suns are not hot, but are self-luminous, perfected 

 worlds, and like our earth, except greater and more 

 prolific in life and power. I also contend it is as 

 reasonable to bury an iron ship in the icebergs of 

 the Arctic seas and expect it to become "red hot," 

 as to expect the sun, planets or any body travel- 

 ing through space 460 degrees colder than those 

 icebergs to become "hot, red hot or molten," as the 

 astronomers say the sun is. All light, heat, vital 



