6 PREFACE 



through scientific facts and analogies is a perfect 

 electrical machine, a vast electro-magnetic organism 

 of marvelous power and perfection. This "stupen- 

 dous mass of matter and force" we call the universe 

 is a complete whole, a perfect unity, creating its 

 own light, heat and life and bound together by 

 invisible electric ties of measureless power, as swift 

 as lightning and as strong as Omnipotence. 



Then I took up the study of electricity as a matter 

 of curiosity and mental stimulus for my leisure 

 hours from the law practice and realty investments. 

 I had an indefinite idea that this mysterious force 

 and the laws governing it might help to solve the 

 riddle of the universe. I studied its application to 

 ordinary machinery and then applied it to the 

 universe as a vast machine. And behold ! the uni- 

 verse as a mighty electric machine or organism 

 answered every scientific question and solved every 

 puzzle in the material world as far as I could com- 

 prehend them. 



I applied it to suns and planets, man and all 

 animal and vegetable organisms, and as electric 

 creations and electric generators they explained 

 a thousand mysteries. I found man the most per- 

 fect electric organism, woven by electric energy from 

 invisible atoms, receiving his physical life, growth 

 and nutrition, and digesting and assimilating his 

 food by an electric process, such as Prof. Loeb and 

 Dr. Matthews discovered in 1902, nearly twenty 

 years after. I soon formulated a theory of elec- 

 trical creation, which has recently been accepted 

 by some of the ablest scientists. 



These things I discussed openly and on the plat- 

 form for many years and then I published them in 



