CONFIRMS SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION 59 



vulsions was going forward the processes of organic 

 construction essential to fit it for the coming genera- 

 tions of sentient life. Night and darkness ruled, but 

 chaos had no part, and never ruled in all the cycles 

 of creative power. The direct currents of electric 

 force and the circular currents of magnetic power 

 swept through and through earth's molecular struc- 

 ture, ranging the atoms in all the lines of crystal 

 perfection and spherical form, and laying the rock- 

 ribbed foundations in geological stratas in the 

 heart and center of a growing world. 



The lines of electro-magnetic force at this period in 

 the planet, with their circular spiral motion, would 

 shape the world into a globular spherical form, and 

 the elements in watery solution would almost come 

 into crystalline firmness, and then an impulse of 

 electrical power would throw them into restless agi- 

 tation ; and again they would respond to the grasp 

 of magnetic strength and return to a state of par- 

 tial arrest near the crystal condition, and again 

 sway back to the electric primitive molecular state. 

 But they could not get free from the lines of mag- 

 netic force which held them with giant grasp until 

 they were incorporated into the foundation rocks of 

 earth's solidifying sphere. And the centre of our 

 planet became a vast solid crystalline magnet, and 

 was never a fiery mist or molten substance. 



Finally when the crystalline rocks were settled into 

 a crystalline globe the life-cell was born as the basis 

 of a new condition of planetary form. And in the 

 dark waters where no light was, organic life under 

 the law of creative electric energy began its work 

 upon the planet. The life-cell is the resultant of 

 electric-magnetic action. 



