Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _The Universe a Vast Electric Organism_ BY GEORGE WOODWARD WARDER AUTHOR OF "Invisible Light, or the Electric Theory of Creation," "The Cities of the Sun," Etc., Etc. [Illustration] _The universe is a vast electric machine or organism creating its own cosmic force, lighting and heating itself from its own latent electric fires, and bound together by invisible electric bands pulling and guiding with the swiftness of lightning, and the power and wisdom of Omnipotence._--From "THE CITIES OF THE SUN." G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY _Publishers_ New York COPYRIGHT, 1903 BY GEORGE WOODWARD WARDER _Issued February, 1904_ The Universe a Vast Electric Organism CONTENTS I. The Universe Is a Vast Electric Organism, 11 II. Electricity Produces All the Phenomena of Nature, 29 III. Electrical Creation, Briefly Stated. It Seems to Solve the Riddle of the Universe, 49 IV. Electrical Creation More Fully Stated Confirms Scientific Evolution, 54 V. Man Is a Soul Clad in Air, a Spirit in an Electric Organism, 76 VI. All Light, Heat and Life Evolved Only in the Atmosphere of Suns and Planets, 90 VII. Electrical Derangement of the Bodily Organism Produce Sickness and Death, 102 VIII. Recent Electric Discoveries and Appliances, Wireless Telegraphy, etc., 112 IX. Present Science Is in a Dubious and Chaotic Condition, 133 X. Electrical Creation Explains Natural Philosophy, 156 XI. Science and Philosophy Sustain the Religious Concept, 173 XII. Human Reason and the Universe Are Books of God, as Well as the Bible, 194 XIII. Love is the Electric Law of Life: All That Live Must Come From Loving, 213 XIV. Jacob's Ladder Is the Electric Pathway Between Suns and Planets, 230 XV. This Electric Universe is Self-sustaining and Eternal, 246 XVI. Are all Suns and Worlds Inhabited? 265 XVII. The Electrical Theory of Creation Will Save Modern Science from Pantheism, 279 PREFACE