ELECTRICAL THEORY SAVES FROM PANTHEISM 281 



But for the discovery of electricity this would have 

 been an age of scientific materialism and pantheism. 

 But the marvelous powers of this invisible force 

 appals the stolid thinkers on " solid matter." They 

 have found there is no solid matter, and that all 

 matter in its primary form, and all force is as in- 

 visible as spirit, and that the universe swings on 

 invisible forces as intangible as mind and as potent 

 and inscrutable as destiny. 



The conflict in the future between religion and 

 Atheism will be chiefly a belief in a God that cares, 

 or a God that does not care ; and in science between 

 an electric universe controlled by spirit and a pan- 

 theistic universe that thinks and feels in all its 

 parts, and is itself the God of all. This last is vir- 

 tually the position of Darwin, Huxley and all the 

 agnostics from them to Ingersoll, and embraces 

 Haeckel's moneism in its definition. 



Let us see from whence they get their facts on 

 which they base their theories. They say: "The 

 evolution going on in the inorganic world is an 

 evolution of intelligent life." I say that what they 

 call intelligence is the result of electric laws and 

 affinity ; that the selection of atoms and their repul- 

 sion and the building of matter into substance and 

 form is the intelligent operation of these electric 

 laws, which originated in the infinite intelligence and 

 power of the Creator. They say: "The soil main- 

 tains life because it is living matter itself." And I 

 agree with them, and say all matter is living mat- 

 ter because it is permeated with electric life and 

 energy and governed by electric law. 



They say : "Metals in fact are sensitive things, 

 like living organisms." I say they are "sensitive" 



