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rebels against what you can only imagine, and demands that 

 at least you shall be able to comprehend as well as imagine 

 before it accepts or believes what it cannot see or understand. 

 I can both comprehend and imagine that such electrical forces 

 of energy may exist, but they are beyond the extreme limits 

 of my understanding, the limit of which is reached when I can 

 neither see, measure, limit nor control the actions of forces, 

 even though their result may be visible. In these concluding 

 remarks, which have arisen from ideas that come into my mind 

 when discussing the subject matter already written, I have 

 endeavoured to throw out a few suggestions relative to what 

 appears to be some possible solutions of Infinite life and 

 energy, viz., that it must be the higher forces or more minute 

 ions of electricity at work under similar rules whose details 

 we have yet to conceive. For it appears to be a rule of nature 

 that the more we reduce matter to its primary elements the 

 nearer we get to the infinity and omnipotence of invisible 

 power, the immeasurability of vital power, and the unlimited 

 velocity of motion. These invisible atoms of electrical energy 

 seem to be the electrical symbols of infinity that control, sur- 

 round and permeate matter, and give it life and propel its 

 motion and progress. 



Professor B. Moore, in " The Origin of Life and Nature," 

 page 158, writes as follows : 



' The origin of life is one of those primeval questions 

 that have agitated the human mind throughout the ages. 

 Some system of creation has formed a basic part of every 

 religious creed in all lands, and the progress and advance- 

 ment of a people at any given period are reflected in their 

 beliefs on this subject. The general state of scientific 

 thought and knowledge at different times is also indicated 

 by the writings of the contemporary philosophers upon this 

 theme, and the growth of enlightenment from age to age can 

 be traced in the changing beliefs upon the subject. 11 



The reader will notice that the hypothesis of my treatise 

 absolutely connects these two as simply the force of two evolu- 

 tions, one of physical and the other of mental or psychical 

 energy, running in concurrent lines, like the two lines of a 

 railroad, but both starting at the one point, the creation of 

 the Universe out of the Trinity of God, and that both Science 



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