MAN IS A SOUL CLAD IN AIR 83 



of a thing that exists, and that is the electro-mag- 

 netic. That suns and worlds, man and all animal 

 and vegetable organisms, are electro-magnets. That 

 electricity was physical life, and digestion and assimi- 

 lation of food were purely electrical processes; 

 while the five senses seeing, hearing, tasting, smell- 

 ing and feeling were all electrical manifestations, 

 seeing and hearing being a form of wireless teleg- 

 raphy. 



That the electric combination of positive and 

 negative atoms weaves the visible structure that 

 envelops the soul. The electric elements from the 

 lungs and stomach enter into the blood, and set 

 the human battery in organic operation and create 

 and continue human life. Thus the beginning of 

 life is an electric process, and the source of life is 

 augmented and continued by absorbing electric 

 energy from the air we breath, from the food we 

 eat and water we drink, and not by the so-called 

 thermal or heat digestive process, but in the same 

 way as we extract electricity from coal and wood 

 by a species of electric transformation or com- 

 bustion, like feeding a flame from the oxygen of 

 the atmosphere. 



The body is not only an electric machine or or- 

 ganism, but the exercise of every function is an 

 electric process. And the derangement of any func- 

 tion, which we call sickness or disease, is an electric 

 derangement. Prof. Loeb and Dr. Mathews have 

 shown how the body is woven of positive and nega- 

 tive atoms. 



Prof. Lucian I. Blake, of the Kansas University, 

 in his lecture, " Atoms and Their Electric Charges," 

 shows how medicine affects the human body and 



