138 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
classed as miracle may be, after all, but the supreme manifestation of law. Many- 
things once regarded as outside knowledge and in the domain of the occult have 
in these modern times been discovered to be as fully the manifestations of law as 
are the phenomena of water. Religion has its office in the domain of morals, 
science its function in discovering the nature of things. But a man may be both 
religious and scientific. If science can demonstrate that man is immortal in its 
way, surely it is its highest mission as well as duty to do so. And if in so doing 
it opens new light on other fields it don't hurt humanity, ought not to hurt any 
man. 
The problem is a very simple one, philosophically stated: All manifestations 
of Ufe are through matter. Taking miracle as claimed in its fullest extent, there 
is not on record or even from tradition, any revelation to man, except through 
matter — through man. Accepting fully the " God man/' it was through matter, 
the human organism, that our religion has its sanction. And this matter appeared 
in form after death and left the earth in material conditions. If this was law, 
not only as to one, but as to many, as recorded for four thousand years, why should 
science be proscribed for trying, if it may, to find this lost law? That is the 
simple question. Is it impious for science to say : If this was the fact for four 
thousand years, it must have been from a law. And as in all the universe, truth 
is a whole, why not the law for the last two thousand years ? No revelation from 
God or from beyond the boundary of this life, has ever come to man, except 
through man — the physical man. Can it ever come in any other way ? Religious 
dogma says no, science says no, and only asks to discover the way, if it can be 
discovered. There is a law by which life comes through matter. There is a law 
by which it persists with matter. There is a law by which it severs its relations 
to matter. Is it then assuming too much to say, that if it ever did come back 
through matter, as faith holds, there must be a law for that? And if known for 
two-thirds of the recorded history of humanity, is it not possible still to know it ? 
Why then, in the language of so many travail-burdened seekers after ideals, should 
it not be let alone — to seek the law in its own way? 
Now, this most profound problem of our time is very closely allied with the 
most fruitful department of physical research — electricity. If not life itself, there 
is no manifestation of life except through it. It is where there is no life, as we 
know it, in substances we call dead. It then cannot be life, or life is some- 
thing more than we recognize it to be. If, then, it is where life is not, but always 
with life, it must be the medium through which and by which life manifests itself. 
And this presupposes that life must be something else — or something not ele- 
mentarily associated with matter. It then uses matter for purposes of expression. 
I use the term matter in its natural, not its metaphysical acceptation. And in what 
has been said there is no difference between science and the advocate we refer to. 
But it goes far beyond that position in its scope and character — it makes it like 
any other truth, a unit, a whole — which can be comprehended as of degree, in 
its manifestations or phenomena. In this aspect there is no necessary difference 
between the scientist and the man of faith. As the dogma holds, it is above 
