There is no conductivity in the ether lines, writes Sinclair, for selfish desires and motives; for they are not of the soul, but are only sounds of the lips (or wishes of the material part of us), so that the established connecting-rod between the living soul and the source of life is insulated from desires that are not begotten in sympathy, and they at once run to earth. Where there is no connection there can be no communion. Without the natural sympathetic etheric connection between the source of life and the soul, there can be no communication. "A New Creed," like the sympathetic etheric philosophy of Keely, reveals the connecting link between the finite and the Infinite, and teaches us that the primal law of evolution and of progress is slowly but surely preparing our race for the time when Christianity will be something more than a mere profession, and "the brotherhood of humanity" will no longer be the meaningless phrase that it now is. We are led to see, by this pure philosophy, that "our solar system is a type of a healthy social system; that in it each one affects, binds, controls, sustains, helps, makes free each other; that no star lives for itself alone;" that man was not made to mourn, and that our sufferings arise from our ignorance of the laws governing the innate motive power within us. The times are not degenerate! Men's faith Mounts higher than of old. No crumbling creed Can take from the immortal soul its need Of something greater than itself. The wraith Of dead belief we cherished in our youth, Fades but to let us welcome new born truth. Man may not worship at the ancient shrine, Prone on his face, in self-accusing scorn. That night is passed; he hails a fairer morn, And knows himself a something half divine! No humble worm whose heritage is sin, But part of God--he feels the Christ within! No fierce Jehovah with a frowning mien He worships. Nay, through love, and not through fear, He seeks the truth, and finds its source is near! He feels and owns the power of things unseen, Where once he scoffed. God's great primeval plan Is fast unfolding in the soul of man.--Ella W. Wilcox. KEELY AND HIS DISCOVERIES. CHAPTER I. 1872 TO 1882. INTRODUCTORY. Within the half-century the hypothetical ether has amply vindicated its novel claim to take its place as a mysterious entity side by side with matter and energy among the ultimate components of the objective universe.... Modern science sets before our eyes the comprehensive and glorious idea of a cosmos which is one and the same throughout, in sun and star and world and atom, in light and heat and life and mechanism, in herb and tree and man and animal, in body, soul, and spirit, mind and matter.--Grant Allen on Evolution.