192 NATURE'S INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS 

 circuit is complete and continuous. The life- 

 history of animate things demonstrates the 

 same continuity. We have already traced the 

 connections which link the ovum and perfect 

 insect. Again, in the vegetable kingdom, 

 there is the seed, the gradual evolution of the 

 plant culminating in the flower, and seed 

 again, ad infinitum. 



The wheels of a man-made machine cannot 

 revolve unless arranged in lines of connection ; 

 nature is the same, there can be no motion 

 or manifestation except the connections are 

 complete. But, in nature's case, the links are 

 often immaterial ; there exist those invisible 

 connections which elude investigation. 



The action of electricity, which may be said 

 to transcend time and space, will perhaps 

 illustrate my meaning. Before it can be 

 energized, electric force must pass along a 

 suitable conductor, which may be material, 

 such as a metal wire, or, a psycho-physical 

 medium (ether), as in wireless telegraphy. In 

 any case, connection must be made, or there 

 is no activity. We do not know what elec- 

 tricity is, but can always test it when operating 

 with a material medium by filling in the last 

 link which completes the circuit. 



Telepathy and telaesthesia, if not identical 

 with electricity, operate, I believe, in the same 



