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we breathe. And that reservoir of life is the vast 

 ocean of electro-magnetism in which all things float 

 and exist as in a sea of magnetic life-giving power. 



The old hypothetical atom and stolid or solid 

 matter was dead, according to the scientists of a 

 few decades ago. But the electrician, dealing with a 

 higher grade of matter, found that the old idea of 

 matter as dead and inert was untrue, and would 

 not accord with the facts. So that a new definition 

 of an atom had to' be formulated, defining it as an 

 electric center of force and motion. And some physi- 

 cists deem life to be co-eternal with matter. Which 

 is not an unreasonable hypothesis as applied to 

 physical life and substance. 



Prof. Tyndall in 1872 said: "Life was present 

 potentially in matter when in the nebulous form, and 

 was unfolded from it by the way of natural develop- 

 ment." In this I agree with Prof. Tyndall as to all 

 life, except the spiritual or psychic life of man. And 

 I have elsewhere tried to show how physical life came 

 from the electric currents which formed the nebula, 

 and which was afterwards woven into the earth by 

 electric and atomic assimilation. 



Ah ! now we come to the gist of all this scientific 

 trouble pessimistic, agnostic and pantheistic. It is 

 this: "Modern science is firmly rooted in the con- 

 viction that inherent powers and qualities gradually 

 unfolded under the operation of natural laws, rather 

 than in a supernatural, extra-cosmic volition intro- 

 ducing arbitrarily new forces." And modern science 

 is partly right. She is right in her facts and her 

 conclusions on this vital and basic point as to all 

 physical creations and natural forces and powers. 

 But I insist that the creation of the soul or psychic 



