92 THE UNIVERSE 



voir of the lungs; the heart valves could not throb 

 with such wonderful force or the pulse keep its 

 steady, unceasing beat but for the electric power 

 imparted by the wireless electricity of the air. 



Besides, the electricity of the air passes through 

 and through the pores of the body at every point, 

 giving additional life and force, and every angle 

 of the body draws electricity like the point of a 

 lightning rod, and the legs, the arms, the toes 

 and the fingers with the space between them, con- 

 stitute horseshoe magnets of great efficiency. 



A man's strength and endurance is measured by 

 the electric atmosphere he draws into his lungs and 

 the fuel or food he takes into his stomach or boiler. 

 A .man's stomach bears a similar relation to the 

 body that the boiler and furnace does to the machine, 

 and should be treated in very much the same way. 

 It should receive only the fuel necessary to its useful- 

 ness, and the ashes and debris should be cleaned 

 out every morning before building a fresh fire, as 

 is done with every well kept furnace. The lungs take 

 in pure electricity from the air, while the stomach 

 takes in compound electric elements, vegetable and 

 animal, and converts them by the electric process 

 of digestion and assimilation into blood and bone, 

 nerves and tissue, and the two functions give vital- 

 ity and growth to the whole body. 



But the electric and controlling center of the 

 bodily machine is the electric dynamo of the brain, 

 to which is attached the spinal column with its 

 nerve branches reaching out to all parts of the 

 body, along which, as on connecting wires, the brain 

 telegraphs its wish and will and governs the whole 

 organism. Here the mind or soul dominates the 



