102 
Energy ” therefore, says Professor Clifford, is a term, only very 
nearly approximate to the facts (p. 91), ( Fortnightly , p. 789). 
The sun (p. 91) supplies us with energy, but himself grows 
cooler, and after long ages will be extinguished. The visible 
Heatispartty Universe is a vast heat-engine , and the tendency of 
so S the ed uni^ heat is towards equalization. _ If the present physi- 
verse wm be ca } i aws remain long enough in operation, there will 
iast! pated at be, at immense intervals, mighty catastrophes, due 
to the crashing together of defunct suns, the smashing of 
the greater part of each into nebulous dust sur- 
Universe is is bl a rounding the remainder, which will form an in- 
gfne heat ' en ' tensely-heated nucleus. Long, long in the future 
eternal rest will come. 
Such scientifically being the necessary future — “ that the now 
visible Universe will become effete/’ — what, let us ask, is the 
necessary past? (p. 67). 
There was a time when the visible Universe was nothing but 
gravitating matter and potential energy. 
Immortality Within such a Universe, of which we see the begin- 
impossibie in ning in the past, and the sure end in the future, we 
^“ universe find that, of course, “ Immortality ” is impossible, 
as this. ‘We must, therefore, dismiss the first hypothesis, (see 
§ 17), that Immortality is transference to any other part of the 
visible Universe (p. 93). 
There remains only the alternative theory (seep. 43), that 
the Immortality we seek may be transference to some Invi- 
sible Universe connected with, but no part of, this 
Hence we visible system; which accords with Swedenborg’s 
hereaft/r in lbC view — (“the line of thought we are now developing,”) 
swedenboVg? —that our bodies will at death be entirely put aside, 
aisose’enf 11 and our powers and energies be transferred to an 
unseen part of the Universe, in some ivay connected 
with the present ; the available energy of the Visible Universe 
being appropriated by the Invisible ” (p. 118). — [Of the unavail- 
able energy, account is not yet taken.] 
CHAPTER IV. 
21. We have considered the Conservation of Matter, and 
Energy. AVc have now to examine, in our fourth Chapter, 
What is what is “ Matter ” ? or rather, what is that won- 
Matter? derful form of “ Matter ” which is the vehicle of all 
the “Energy” we receive from the sun, and the vehicle of all 
