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of its existence. Can the soul partake of the char- 

 acter of electricity? We conceive that it exists as 

 force that survives the dissolution of the body." 



I conceive the soul controls electricity, which is 

 the right hand of its power, and the tongue of the 

 spirit, and survives in conscious power "the wreck 

 of matter and the crush of worlds." "Whither does 

 the soul go?" asks the same author, and he an- 

 swers "to other worlds. Yes, living principles of 

 force can transport them from one world to 

 another." I agree with him. I believe they go to 

 other worlds, and the other worlds are perfected 

 sun-worlds. We must not think that the soul belongs 

 to some supernatural world. There is nothing 

 that is not in nature. Nature is unceasing prog- 

 ress. It is only a few thousand years since ter- 

 restrial humanity emerged from its chrysalis state of 

 being. Yet certain spirits have attained tran- 

 scendent power, and humanity has produced a 

 Shakespeare, a Goethe, a Hugo, a Newton, and a 

 Milton. We live in reality among the stars. 



We are inhabitants of the skies. Life, light and 

 eternal progress to perfection is the final end and 

 purpose of the universe. Every thinking man feels 

 in his moral and psychic nature that he is linked 

 to justice, truth and Deity. 



Maeterlinck, the Danish philosopher, sustains this 

 thought in his latest work when he says : " Though 

 nature appears unjust and nothing authorizes us 

 to declare that a superior power rewards or pun- 

 ishes here or elsewhere, it is none the less certain 

 that an image of that invisible, incorruptible jus- 

 tice we have vainly sought in the sky or the uni- 

 verse reposes in the depths of the moral life of every 



