94 SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY 



It is a small universe after all when the aurora 

 borealis and the phosphorescence in a vacuum tube 

 are akin ; and when the toy magnet of the child 

 and the great world spinning through space exercise 

 attractive powers different only in degree. 



It is a strange world when we think that the 

 prima materia which mankind had so vainly sought 

 had all the time been battering away at the boun- 

 daries of the atmosphere ! 



Finally, we may mention that Arrhenius makes 

 the audacious suggestion that the life upon our 

 globe was brought to it from interstellar space by 

 this corpuscular rain. 



" Yet all these were when no Man did them know, 

 Yet have from wisest Ages hidden beene. 

 And later Times thinges more unknowne shall show ; 

 Why, then, should witless Man so much misweene 

 That nothing is but that which he hath seene ? " 



