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have the power of drawing electricity from the at- 

 mosphere, like a minature dynamo or a galvanic 

 battery, and thus continually renewing itself, so that 

 there is no loss of power and no shrinkage in size 

 or bulk. The scientists may soon be forced by 

 radium and other natural phenomena to accept 

 the electric theory that electricity and not gravity 

 is the one and only fundamental force in nature. 



The recent discovery of the three lines in the 

 spectrum of hydrogen, discovered by Prof. Picker- 

 ing, of Harvard, may upset the whole theory of the 

 seventy-three elements set forth in our books of 

 chemistry and said to constitute all the elements 

 of the universe. It may prove they are not elements, 

 or at least not primary elements at all, and finally 

 drive the scientists to my theory that there are 

 only three primary elements in the universe, and 

 they are spirit, electricity and matter. That the 

 so-called seventy-three elements are only different 

 combinations of two of the original and primary 

 elements matter and electricity and are what Her- 

 schell said they looked to be " manufactured arti- 

 cles." 



Prof. Pickering was the first to analyze light- 

 ning with the spectroscope and show that hydro- 

 gen is a compound substance made up of lines 

 belonging to at least three chemical elements. This 

 recent discovery was a great surprise to scientific 

 men. And it was confirmed and doubly proven 

 by the spectrum in the new star, in the constel- 

 lation of Perseus, known as Nova Persei, which 

 also shows in the hydrogen there the same lines 

 consisting of at least three chemical elements. 



This is new proof by high authority that oxygen, 



