We receive impressions of impending disaster which we regard as “supernatural.” Once for all let me say there is nothing supernatural. A knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of your superstitions and destroy your fears. Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters or telegrams. The impending disaster vibrations often reach us long before the actual occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of lightening, or the flash of the powder, before we hear the thunder or the report of the cannon. All these things are but movements of the electrons of the universe, carrying out the natural law of their being, which is electrical impulse. Prof. Dolbear says, “Molecules which are a combination of atoms, are known to have their constant state of vibrations and from this and the fact of their perfect transparency, they can no more be seen than the air. They are so minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, that no one can hope to see them or learn their characteristic properties.” Observation and study of the phenomena of electrical energy reveal to us the nature of that substance, which we are, and with which we have to do. The fundamental, inevitable, never-varying law of polarity—pushing and pulling—or positive and negative action. In creation, throughout all experience, this is seen. Land and sea, day and night, right and left, up and down, sweet and sour, east and west, north and south, good and bad, right and wrong, man and woman, attraction and repulsion—the so-called “pairs of opposites”,—Sex everywhere. Is it difficult to see by analogy and deduction that polarity is universal. That all phenomena are electrical phenomena. That birth, and growth, disease and disaster, decline and death are all electrical phenomena, and that there is but one synthetic substance—ELECTRICITY. [1]The germ, the embryo, the child, The foolish boy, the man, Are onward steps from nothingness In God’s progressive plan. Forever onward is the march— From beastly hoof to hand— From savage to the seer and sage— From Saurian types to man; From man to angel—limitless As are the starry spheres, Progression hath not halt nor bound In God’s eternal years! From darkest cloud the lightning flash— From nothing—life Divine, From gloom to glory is the law The unvarying design. A world of good invites our eyes And charms the willing mind— But he who only misery finds Blasphemes the life Divine. The mountain side—the billowy sea Of waving prairie flowers, The gardens, glades, and spicy groves Around this world of ours Proclaim the endless festival Of beauty,—and the truth— The deathless power of Love Divine Eternal in its youth. [1] Arena. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality, by Henry Fleetwood