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of its solidity is molecular attraction, the invisible 

 force of magnetic attraction. 



The present scientific theories have only been ap- 

 prehended by the brightest intellects within the last 

 half century, and would have been a conglomeration 

 of absurdities to the wisest men of the world a cen- 

 tury ago. So, written revelation had to use the lan- 

 guage and symbols understood by the ancients. 

 And it seems that scientific evolution is constantly 

 struggling for new terms to express new ideas and 

 discoveries. 



Some scientists believe it impossible for the ter- 

 restrial being to attain a complete knowledge of 

 the truth because he has only five senses, and a mul- 

 titude of the phenomena of nature remains unknown 

 to his mind because he has no means by which to 

 reach them. Just as if we should be unable to see 

 if deprived of the optic nerve, or to hear if deprived 

 of the auditory nerve. Our terrestrial harp may 

 be wanting in many chords which prevent us from 

 catching the perfect harmony and truth of the 

 universe. It is said the smallest magnet can more 

 easily than Newton or Leibnitz discover the mag- 

 netic pole, and the swallow has more knowledge of 

 the varieties of latitude than had Columbus or 

 Magellan. But whatever our experience, it is a part 

 of the book of God and nature. 



Flammarion says : "No one who is aware of the 

 progress made in the exact sciences of to-day can 

 pretend to be a materialist. The psychic atom, 

 the principle of the human organism would be im- 

 mortal, like atoms everywhere, if scientists were to 

 admit the fundamental axioms of chemistry. But 

 it would be superior to atoms, and be conscious 



