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Alfred Russell Wallace's little arguments like a trip- 

 hammer would an eggshell. Ruskin also saw much 

 good in the idea of life in other worlds above us, 

 "in creatures as much nobler than ours as ours 

 is nobler than that of the dust." 



When once the unity and universality of force 

 and electric life are made clear, and spirit and psy- 

 chic life in their immortal destiny are made mani- 

 fest, as thinking creatures we are led upward to a 

 larger development of life and power, dominated 

 by a supreme intelligence we call Deity, Infinite 

 Goodness and Spiritual Father. Then we remember 

 that he has assured us in the sacred oracles, that 

 "we shall be with Him and shall belike Him," and 

 that there are many mansions in the skies. 



Our scientists tell us there are living creatures so 

 small and so numerous that it would take millions 

 of worlds like ours to support a human population 

 equal to the number of these creatures that can 

 live and move in one cubic inch of space. Some 

 of these multiply at the rate of one hundred and 

 seventy thousand millions in a hundred hours. 

 And I say every one is a tiny electric machine. 



The electric currents that built our world from 

 invisible atoms and evolved the complex substances 

 of which it is composed, and the myriad forms of 

 organic life that exist on its surface will fill other 

 worlds with countless forms of organic life. For 

 in the great electro-magnetic sea we call ether and 

 space, in which all things float or exist, and which 

 permeates all form and substance, there is a bound- 

 less reservoir of electric life which will blossom into 

 infinite grades of physical organisms wherever the 

 surface of suns, planets and satellites have living 



