CHAPTER V 



MAN IS A SOUL CLAD IN AIR. A SPIRIT IN AN ELEC- 

 TRIC ORGANISM 



MY claim that man is an electric organism is 

 confirmed by Professor Loeb and Dr. Mathews in 

 their recent experiments at the Chicago University. 



" Electrical charges in the atoms of the bodily 

 tissue are responsible for all the active phenomena 

 of life. In other words, electricity is the basis of 

 life." This is the sweeping conclusion with which 

 Dr. Jacques Loeb amazed the physiologists gathered 

 in their last annual meeting at the Chicago Uni- 

 versity. 



Hitherto it has been taken for granted by men 

 of science that the food we eat nourishes us by 

 furnishing the tissues and muscles of the body with 

 thermo or heat energy. This, according to Pro- 

 fessor Loeb, is totally wrong. Instead of the food 

 furnishing the muscle with heat energy, it supplies 

 electrical energy, which, after being converted into 

 mechanical energy, is responsible for all the muscu- 

 lar contractions and organic processes of living 

 organisms. 



He has arrived at this conclusion after many 

 years of intricate and difficult experiments along 

 the line of reproduction of animals, of determining 

 the effect of salt on the heart-beat and its rymthic 

 motion, and on other muscles, and of the destructive 



