CHAPTER III 



ELECTRICAL CREATION, BRIEFLY vSTATED. IT SEEMS 

 TO SOLVE THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE 



As the nebular hypothesis and gravitation ex- 

 plain nothing and show neither the primary elements 

 nor the primary energy of the universe, we should 

 go to the dual forces of electricity which do. As 

 we have learned little more than a name from either, 

 I think it is time to try another hypothesis. Walk- 

 ing single file in dead men's shoes for two hun- 

 dred years is quite long enough. 



I am willing to submit the following hypothesis 

 as my conception of electrical creation and the true 

 theory of the universe. 



First Creation was wrought out by the agency of 

 electrical forces, operating on invisible elementary 

 matter, controlled by the intellectual impulse of an 

 infinite power. 



Second These creative cosmic forces, by condensing 

 the suns and planets into vast magnets revolving 

 in a sea of electro-magnetic forces, evolved the mar- 

 velous machinery of the universe. 



Third This machinery of the universe became 

 self-propelling and self-sustaining by reason of the 

 laws of motion, growth and evolution impressed 

 upon it, or by the joint sovereignty of two equal, 

 correlative forces : magnetism, a form of electricity 

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