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staff Observatory, Arizona, announced that a bril- 

 liant projection has been discovered on the planet 

 Mars, and was seen for thirty-five minutes. Some 

 think it is Mars signalling to us; others that it is 

 a snow-capped mountain, or a luminous cloud; 

 but all agree that it shows Mars to be inhabited. 



Prof. J. A. Fleming of the London University, 

 seems to agree with my conception of electricity. 

 He also considers it as a refined matter and the 

 electron as the atom of electricity, In the "Pop- 

 ular Science Monthly" of June, 1903. He asserts 

 that : ' ' The electron isolated presents itself as elec- 

 tricity of the negative kind; and in combination 

 with co-electrons and other electrons it forms the 

 atoms of ponderable matter. At rest the electrons 

 or co-electrons constitute an electric charge, and 

 when in motion it is an electric current. 



"A steady flux or drift of electrons in one direc- 

 tion, and co-electrons in an opposite direction, is a 

 continuous electric current, while their mere oscilla- 

 tion about a mean position is an alternating cur- 

 rent. The vibration of an electron, if sufficiently 

 rapid, enables it to establish electric waves in the 

 ether; this is the cause or foundation of wireless 

 telegraphy. The electrons or atoms of electricity 

 can, in some cases, make their way, freely, between 

 the atoms of ponderable matter. Where this can 

 take place easily, we call the material a good con- 

 ductor. Electrons in their free condition constitute 

 electricity, and the electrons are atoms of elec- 

 ticity." 



These electrons and their currents of electricity, I 

 contend, are the creative cosmic force of the uni- 

 verse, evolving all visible form and substance, and 



