LIGHT, HEAT AND LIFE: HOW EVOLVED 103 



the wireless electricity from the air just as the elec- 

 tric wire takes it from the dynamo. The vital por- 

 tion of the air we draw into the electric reservoir 

 of our lungs is simply our daily life drawn each day 

 from the life-giving sun. This life and all that 

 exist on earth or planets could not co'me from a 

 burning globe or a molten sun. It is a superla- 

 tive absurdity to think so. 



Light, heat and life are the products of electric 

 energy, which is only called into existence by the 

 contact of positive and negative electricity in na- 

 ture's chosen medium the atmospheric environment 

 of suns, planets and their satellites. This is nature's 

 chosen theatre for animal and vegetable life. There 

 is no reason or necessity for light, heat or animal 

 and vegetable life elsewhere in the universe. 



Here upon the surface of suns and planets are 

 the mighty and varied currents of electric power 

 and magnetic force, weaving forms and substance 

 from invisible atoms and molecules, under the laws 

 of electric attraction and organic affinity. In the 

 economy of nature there are no wasted energies, 

 or useless activities. Light, heat and physical life 

 in space or transparent ether would be useless and 

 nugatory ; therefore nature ignores such folly in all 

 her fruitful processes. 



There may be reflected light, or a fluorescent glow, 

 as in the tail of a comet or in the nebula of frigid 

 space, but nothing we can truly call either heat or 

 light can be evolved outside of the atmospheric 

 sheet surrounding and penetrating the surface of 

 suns, planets and satellites. 



We walk on the surface of a revolving magnet 

 and dynamo more perfect in measureless power and 



