268 THE UNIVERSE 



It could organize his body, but it could not confer 

 on him a soul. Electricity does not rob God of 

 power; it is his creative machinery, and the right 

 hand of His power, and, guided by His omnipotent 

 will as the law of nature, it can and does evolve 

 suns and worlds and all organic life. But not spirit- 

 life not man. 



Moses and the Bible were inspired or they could 

 never have shown so clearly the nobler creation of 

 man, and his inherent sovereignty over the world, 

 and dominion over all the animal creation. I like 

 that statement, "And God said let us make man." 

 Electricity was the word of His power, the creative 

 agent of His will, which is the law of nature. It 

 could create a sun, a world, a universe; it could 

 give sense and feeling to insensate dust, and evolve 

 and fashion man's body as a house suited for his 

 earthly habitation, but it could not furnish a ten- 

 ant or evolve a soul. The God-father and the God- 

 mother alone could do this, and make man a spirit- 

 ual and eternal being. 



Now, I argue that if electricity created this earth 

 with all its complex elements and organic forms, 

 it also created all suns and worlds and all the 

 machinery of the universe by the same process, and 

 has endowed every rolling sphere in space of suffi- 

 cient size and power with vegetation, and all the 

 varied forms of animal organism. Is not this a 

 rational conclusion, since it has been demonstrated 

 by universal chemistry and spectroscopic analysis 

 that all laws, force and substance are the same in 

 all suns and worlds and throughout the universe? 

 Is it reasonable to believe that the electric currents 

 and magnetic energy of our earth could evolve 



