A WONDERFUL WORLD 



mechanical appliances. The process of radio-activ- 

 ity involves the expulsion of atoms of helium with a 

 velocity three hundred times greater than that ever 

 previously known for any material mass or particle, 

 and this power we are incompetent to use. The 

 atoms remain unchanged amid the heat and pres- 

 sure of the laboratory of nature. Iron and oxygen 

 and so forth remain the same in the sun as here on 

 the earth. 



Science strips gross matter of its grossness. WTien 

 it is done with it, it is no longer the obstructive 

 something we know and handle; it is reduced to pure 

 energy — the line between it and spirit does not ex- 

 ist. We have found that bodies are opaque only to 

 certain rays; the X-ray sees through this too too 

 solid flesh. Bodies are ponderable only to our dull 

 senses; to a finer hand than this the door or the wall 

 might offer no obstruction; a finer eye than this 

 might see the emanations from the living body; a 

 finer ear might hear the clash of electrons in the air. 

 Who can doubt, in view of what we already know, 

 that forces and influences from out the heavens 

 above, and from the earth beneath, that are beyond 

 our ken, play upon us constantly? 



The final mystery of life is no doubt involved in 

 conditions and forces that are quite outside of or 

 beyond our conscious life activities, in forces that 

 play about us and upon and through us, that we 

 know not of, because a knowledge of them is not 



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