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may take place in the life-giving blood currents of 

 their own bodies. Yet, if we believe those who have 

 studied the millions of microscopic life forms which 

 live in our bodies, such scenes may occur there. 

 According to biologists, billions of microbes are 

 generated in our bodies too infinitesimal to be 

 observed by a microscope. And they say their 

 fermentation in countless numbers produces a poison 

 which creates irritation, the decrepitude of age and 

 finally death. They say visible microbes show in- 

 telligence. 



Engleman seems to hold that such facts as these 

 and those connected with molecular organisms, 

 " point to the presence of some psychic powers in 

 the protoplasm." But I do not think so. They 

 only show the wonderful and diversified powers of 

 electric energy under divine law to evolve myriads 

 of microscopic life that acts under intelligent electric 

 impulses, which in its matured form we call animal 

 instinct. 



Thus we have traced conscious life from the dust 

 out of which man's body was formed up through 

 all the intervening kingdoms of nature until we 

 reach man himself, who is the only creature that 

 possesses a spiritual nature, a psychic soul, and an 

 immortal destiny. 



From the grossest materialism man and human 

 science is rising at last to the truth and conception 

 of a spiritual world of so exalted an order, and 

 so sublime a reality, that it has been said, "to 

 connect the mind of man with the Spirit of God." 



All nature affirms that there is a Supreme intelli- 

 gence working through electric law within the mani- 

 fest universe, which is its living electric organism. 



