72 THE UNIVERSE 



an electric impulse on the sensitive tissues of the 

 brain and responds from natural habit. It does 

 not think, reason or soar into the boundless fields 

 of ideality. It cannot feel the spiritual touch of 

 human souls, or the divine impulse of God and love, 

 of music, poetry, language, art and religion, as does 

 the human soul. 



Man is as much above the animal creation as the 

 animal is above the vegetable and the vegetable 

 above the mineral. 



We have seen that the mineral is created by aggre- 

 gations of atoms solidified under the law of mag- 

 netic attraction and brought to rest by balanced 

 forces into crystalline form, and thus incorporated 

 into the foundation elements of the earth magnet. 

 They are simply electric and atomic forces and 

 atoms balanced and at rest. They have no organic 

 existence. Vegetable life, which is next above them, 

 have organisms, and are sun engines breathing in 

 nitrogen and giving out carbonic acid or oxygen to 

 sustain animal life. The vegetable organism fur- 

 nishes food for all animal life. 



There can be no evolution of plant life into animal 

 life. It is not scientific to search for such an irra- 

 tional order of development. Vegetable, plant and 

 tree in their organic life structure, never become 

 animals. They have no independent existence sepa- 

 rate from the sun's rays and the earth's soil except 

 as latent in seed life. Cut off the sun currents from 

 their leaves and the electric earth currents from their 

 roots, and they are at once weakened and destroyed. 



Animals are a higher order of life which have an 

 independent existence in atmosphere and water- 

 electric elements separate from earth dust, and 



