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sustains the part of a vast storehouse, continually receiving 
detachments from this Spirit of the Universe by its great 
polar and other entrances, and as continually giving forth 
supplies by even more numberless exits. 
Though one of the principal agents in carrying out the 
laws by which God governs the world, Electron is himself 
subject only to such laws as are adapted to his constitution 
and the purposes for which he was created ; and the Supreme 
Governor has given permission to man, when he ascertains 
and pays deference to those laws, to make his own use, to a 
limited extent, of the powers and the service of this great 
spirit. 
This powerful and ubiquitous Genie has close relations 
with all animate and inanimate things in the world. Be- 
tween him and some of them there is a much greater 
attachment than with others, as, for instance, in the case of 
the metal iron, that greatest friend and servant of man of 
all the metallic race. 
The further our researches and observations have yet been 
carried in this direction the more they tend to confirm the 
belief, inspired also by the study of other branches of 
natural science, that the Almighty wisdom and power 
operate by means at once the most uniform and simple in 
their individual and atomic manifestations, and unspeakably 
efficient, grand, and beautiful in their combined and predes- 
tinated outcome. The Universe itself consists of an infinite 
number of globes or spheres, in constant, regular, and 
multiplex motion, and having certain sympathetic influences 
and relations with each other through means of a property 
called gravitation. The ultimate or minutest division which 
we are capable of making of matter, as well as the most 
careful study of its properties, lead to the same conclusion 
as to its constitution, namely, that its atoms or ultimate 
components are also spheres either in motion or capable of 
being put in motion, and having opposite poles and attractive 
powers for other atoms, whether of the same or of different 
species. But instead of being called gravitation the attractive 
force of these atoms is known as chemical aCtion, though it 
is believed by savants to be the effeCt of some special proper- 
ties conferred upon them by Electron. And it is — beyond 
all his other qualities — by his power of imparting and go- 
verning molecular attractive forces that such all-important 
results are produced throughout the world as prove the Genie 
Electron to be the most powerful and omnipresent of God’s 
ministers on earth. 
When the particles of different kinds of matter are free to 
