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Show ELECTRICITY. The author of the Cities of the Sun makes reasonably rea-sonably clear that the universe is held in harmony by the attraction and repulsion agents of electricity. electric-ity. The handling of these forces is but in its infancy in-fancy among men, though it is growing more and more apparent daily that the power that creates worlds has relied upon these forces from the beginning. be-ginning. All matter is instinct, with them all life has its origin and continuance in them Electricitv i" the one vital force of nature. There is a little four-year-old boy in this city who noticed his first thunderstorm a few months ago. He asked his father what made the lightning. The father replied, "electricity." "Just like the cars?" asked the child. The answer was, "Yes." Two or three days went by and the father had forgotten the incident when suddenly the child said, "Papa, the electricity is in the wire that runs the cars is it?" Again the answer was, "Yes." "How does it do it?" was the next question. The father explained that the wire conducted the electricity, which was generated by machinery, that some of the power was taken off by the trolley which communicated with motors under the cars and caused the wheels to turn. "The electricity goes down from the wire and turns the wheels?" was the next question. The father assented, as-sented, when the boy closed the debate by asking: ask-ing: "Then why cannot the trollies be built high up where the lightning is and turn everything?". . The child but gave voice to man's higher aspirations. aspir-ations. The race for wealth keeps thousands of ii I minds straining to build their trollies higher and catch more power. But the wealth-seekers are not the only ones who are straining upward. Since the fact has been the more impressed that the great moving and creating agent of the universe is electricity, since man has acquired a rudimentary use of it, the scientists have begun to reason in this way. If we know now the agent which the all-wise uses to create worlds, why is it not possible to discover dis-cover the deeper plan behind the creation?" The invention of wireless telegraphy has greatly great-ly increased the interest in this field of investigation. investiga-tion. We believe the near result will be to make clear that the suns are not orbs of fire, that the planets are not scorching near the sun and freezing in the mighty outer orbits of Neptune and Jupiter, but that the heat of all depends upon the thickness of their atmospheres and their capacity ca-pacity to receive electricity from the sun; that our little planet is not the only one inhabited, but that all are peopled, that the suns themselves are peopled, and by races infinitely superior to ours. We believe, too, that as endless progression is a rule of nature, as forests of pine give way to forests of oak; the human soul is not extinguished by death, but, in new robes, released from the environments en-vironments that clothe it here it will advance un-I un-I til the perfect dawn is reached. |