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manifestations of creative force. The potentiality of 

 all physical life was there in those electric currents, 

 but not the spirit or soul-life of man. That came 

 long after, when the animal organism had been 

 evolved and perfected. 



Yes, truly, in a natural sense, as Kingsley says : 

 "Water hates the oil with which it refuses to mix; 

 and lime loves the acid which it receives into itself, 

 and like a lover grows warm with the rapture of its 

 affection." This refusal of water and oil to mix is 

 caused by electric repulsion, and lime and acid is a 

 simple form of electric attraction. Then the pan- 

 theists dwell on what they call the "soul-life of 

 plants," the intelligence of birds and beasts, and the 

 regularity of seasons, years, and earth and sun 

 revolutions, and all natural phenomena, which they 

 say proves the world is God. All of which I have 

 endeavored to explain by electrical law and proc- 

 esses; and they conclude all these things prove the 

 pantheism of the universe. 



Let us notice some of the wonderful workings and 

 transmutations in nature on which the advocates 

 of pantheism rely. Mr. Titus, as one of its cham- 

 pions, says : "There is a common bond of unity be- 

 tween the different kingdoms of nature the mineral, 

 vegetable and animal. That there is some primal 

 atomic or common condition, some homogeneous 

 substance in nature, some elemental essence from the 

 aggregations and combinations of which all forms 

 are built up." This is undoubtedly true, and proves 

 that in the atoms and electric laws of nature there 

 are ample means for the creation of infinite sub- 

 stances and countless organic beings. This does not 

 prove pantheism. It only proves progressive, wise 



