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surable, that is, limited in extent, or it would not exceed in 

 power two-thirds of control of infinite power, and if it were 

 only one-third of infinite power it would not be above the 

 powers of the animal mind, and therefore could not become 

 eternal. These conclusions were the results of logical deduc- 

 tion, and at the time I wrote the chapter I was still under the 

 impression that life owed its origin to Light and was part of 

 Matter, and that space and vacuum were devoid of life. It 

 was not until January, 1916, that I read some works by Pro- 

 - fessors Soddy and Benjamin Moore, and by Sir Oliver Lodge, 

 which demonstrated that the discovery of radium and investi- 

 gations of modern science have proved beyond dispute that all 

 the forces that direct and control life, mind and soul and the 

 material universe lie in the spaces and vacuums of ether that 

 surround, impregnate and control creation, and that electrical 

 and radio activity is alterable and unvariable in its effects, and 

 is indestructible. Whereas all Matter is unalterable in its sum 

 total, variable in its construction, yet indestructible in its ex- 

 istence, for if the last were not the case it would cease to be 

 part of infinity, and by so being would destroy the universality 

 of infinity, which all goes to prove that God the Holy Ghost 

 is the God of radio-activity. 



This, therefore, is only another argument in support of the 

 correctness of the hypothesis that I am trying to elucidate, as 

 it instances the marvellous manner in which it enables by its 

 sole use, with very little scientific knowledge to help me, but 

 simply by pure logical or mathematical deduction to arrive at 

 facts by a short-cut in the course of a few months through the 

 Trinity of God, that it has taken the wisest men of science 

 years to prove. 



Does not this go to show what I have pointed out from time 

 to time in this treatise, that science must not be too proud 

 to bow its head to the truths of revelation or scoff at the exist- 

 ence of divine inspiration ? At the same time religion must not 

 be so haughty and arrogant as to refuse to alter, when made 

 necessary by undeniable proofs, its teachings and to reconstruct 

 them to suit the advancements in the evolution of revelation, 

 just the same as all other forms of evolution must conform to 

 the law of the survival of the fittest and the destruction of the 

 unfit. So religions must alter to suit the times, or the people 

 will cease to respect them, and laws that the people will not 



