LOVE IS THE ELECTRIC LAW OF LIFE 219 



Some very strong writers believe man's body is the 

 product of the thought and mental force of his pro- 

 genitors. If so, the mental impulse of love, and 

 even its lower form of animal passion, is the begetter 

 of the human race. Mrs. Josephine Barton, in 

 "Mothers of the Living," declares, "The .history of 

 flesh has its beginning in the male atom, and exists 

 as an unembodied idea in mental solution. Think- 

 ing results in ideas and ideas crystallize into form. 

 Thoughts are the blocks out of which children are 

 made. The physical gets its breath of life from the 

 mental or spiritual. The first avenue of develop- 

 ment after its appearance in form in the male par- 

 ent is the daily and hourly thinking, exercised in 

 the mentality of the parent. These atoms, though 

 microscopic, are the brain and spinal cord of the 

 atom man. The product of the male element is 

 judgment and will, of the female love and intuition ; 

 so the atom man crystallizes only the seat, brain 

 and nerve faculties. This structure temple of the 

 soul like the acorn, has inherent within it growth 

 and fruit possibilities." 



She arouses useful thought and adds with force 

 and eloquence, "All men are, by their daily thinking, 

 moulding the brain and spinal cords of future men. 



"O men of earth ! what qualities are you weaving 

 in your thread of thought? Of what substance are 

 you moulding the grand army of the future race? 

 Are you endowing them with the intellect of true 

 manhood, or crystallizing into atoms all manner 

 of distorted brains? 



"Our bodies are bulletins of our thoughts, and 

 the male atom is the microscopic beginning of 

 childlife, and when expelled from the loins of their 



