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 MIND, MATTER 
 
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 MOTION 
 
 WITH DIRECTIONS 
 
 FOR GOOD HEALTH IN OLD AGE 
 
 BY 
 
 ADAM MILLER, RL D., Ph. D., 
 
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 AUTHOR OF 
 
 ^Life in Other Worlds/' 
 
 "Plain Talk to the Sick" 
 
 and "Mental Gymnastics." 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 The Sun an Electric Light 8 
 
 How the Earth is Warmed by the Sun's 
 
 Rays 14 
 
 The Conditions of Matter and the Origin 
 
 of Human Life and Mind 21 
 
 How Truth May be Found 26 
 
 Combined Forces of Nature 31 
 
 Care for the House We Live in 45 
 
 Strength Obtained by Labor 50 
 
 The Limitations to Human Knowledge. 56 
 
 How to Remain Vigorous in Old Age . . 67 
 
 Natural and Spiritual Laws 70 
 
 How the Memory May be Improved 73 
 
 Appendix 87 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 When sixty years of my life had 
 passed away I felt that the infirmities 
 of old age were gradually approach- 
 ing. 
 
 An inclination to stoop and bend 
 down, with a pressure on my shoul- 
 ders, were indications that a great 
 change was coming. I then resolved 
 to throw ofif, if possible, this relentless 
 oppressor of our mental and physi- 
 cal powers. I commenced some new 
 scientific studies, and resorted to new 
 physical exercises. Here I had to 
 exercise my MIND and to deal with 
 MATTER and keep in MOTION, and 
 this suggested the title for my book: 
 MIND, MATTER AND MOTION. 
 
 I do not contemplate mind in its 
 metaphysical relation to all existing 
 things, but view it as the intellectual or 
 intelligent power in man, by which he 
 arrives at conclusions which control his 
 actions. I do not present matter in 
 its strictly scientific relation to natural 
 laws ; but view it as it exists in its vari- 
 5 
 
MIND, MATTER 
 
 THE SUN AN ELECTRIC LIGHT. 
 
 In my first study of this subject Y 
 was fully satisfied that the light of the 
 sun was caused by electrical action, 
 but by a more careful examination of 
 the statements of the different authors 
 who have written on this subject, and 
 of the facts connected with solar ac- 
 tion, I am prepared to advance one 
 step farther and assert that the sun 
 is, in itself, an immense electric light. 
 It is not merely to be viewed as a light- 
 house on the distant shores of a rock- 
 bound coast, shedding its borrowed 
 light to guide the mariner in his course, 
 but as a central power house of un- 
 told energy, to hold and guide revolv- 
 ing worlds in their motion around this 
 common center, and that this will 
 finally be a recognized fact in science. 
 
 I am the more confident in this from 
 the fact that, up to this time, no theory 
 has been offered on which astronomers 
 could generally agree. 
 
 In reference to this, Dr. Newcomb, 
 in his "Popular Astronomy" (257), 
 says: "It is remarkable that modern 
 
AND MOTION. 
 
 science has shown us more mysteries 
 in the sun than it has explained, so 
 that we find ourselves farther than be- 
 fore from a satisfactory explanation of 
 solar phenomena." 
 
 On page 287 Dr. Newcomb says: 
 "No theory of the solar constitution 
 which is free from some objections has 
 yet appeared." 
 
 Professor Langly, the astronomer, 
 says: "The most important statement 
 with reference to the sun, perhaps, 
 which we can make with certainty, is 
 even a negative one. It is that we 
 have no other than empirical grounds 
 in the present state of knowledge for 
 believing in the uniformity of solar 
 radiation in prehistoric periods or in 
 the future." 
 
 From such statements from two of 
 the most popular astronomers of our 
 country it must be admitted that there 
 is a demand for something more cer- 
 tain on this subject. 
 
 A number of different theories have 
 been offered, and in their turn rejected 
 as untenable. The theory now gen- 
 erally received by astronomers is that 
 the solar orb is now in a process of 
 shrinking, and in this way it is sup- 
 
10 MIND, MATTER 
 
 posed that the light and heat of the 
 sun are produced, but this is not re- 
 garded as a fact in science and is re- 
 ceived only from a want of something 
 more in harmony with scientific facts. 
 Now, since electricity has come to 
 the front as a great working force in 
 nature, we may look at this as the most 
 probable cause of solar energy and ac- 
 tivity. This giant power is governed 
 by certain laws, which we can study, 
 and from which we can make certain 
 calculations, and thus arrive at scien- 
 tific conclusions. The matter thrown 
 out from the sun, as revealed by the 
 telescope, is the result of magnetic re- 
 pulsion. Now, we appeal to facts re- 
 vealed through the telescope, and here 
 we learn that an immense amount of 
 matter is constantly thrown out from 
 the sun, and this is regularly returned 
 by the sun's attraction. This cannot 
 be accounted for by the shrinking of 
 the sun, but it can be accounted for 
 most clearly by the different electrical 
 conditions of these particles of matter. 
 By the immense magnetism of the sun, 
 they become positive, and, conse- 
 quently, are repelled, as a positive re- 
 pels a positive. When they are pushed 
 
AND MOTION. 11 
 
 out from 200,000 to 300,000 miles their 
 positive electric condition is changed 
 to a negative condition, and then they 
 are attracted by the sun, and return 
 with an immense force, and by this re- 
 peated contact with the surface of the 
 sun, develop immense currents of elec- 
 tricity. 
 
 Here there is no waste of energies, 
 for the boundless store of electricity 
 cannot be wasted. Here we will find 
 the master key that will unlock the 
 mysteries that have surrounded this 
 subject in the past. 
 
 A distinguished astronomer says: 
 'The true explanation is reserved for 
 the science which shall reveal the na- 
 ture of the connection which unites 
 heat to electricity, to magnetism and 
 to the cause of gravity." This we have 
 in the theory here presented, and the 
 truth that forces itself upon us is that 
 the sun itself is an electric light on an 
 enormous scale, and this is kept up 
 through all the ages by magnetic re- 
 pulsion and attraction of cosmical mat- 
 ter, according to electric conditions. 
 
 This bombardment constantly go- 
 ing on on the surface of the sun is a 
 scientific fact, demonstrated by obser- 
 
12 MIND, MATTER 
 
 vations through the telescope and not 
 a theory guessed at to be set aside by 
 another guessing in another direction. 
 
 New theories should not be rejected 
 on the ground that we find nothing in 
 the books in harmony with them. If 
 they will stand the test of logic without 
 sophistry and of fairly conducted ex- 
 periments without jugglery or decep- 
 tion, we should accept them, even if 
 we are compelled to abandon old 
 theories and number them with erro- 
 neous theories of our ancestors. 
 
 The bright, shining surface of the 
 sun which we see with the naked eye 
 is the photosphere which appears per- 
 fectly smooth and uniform, but the 
 telescope reveals a constant state of 
 disturbance on the surface of the sun, 
 and these down rushing of and up- 
 heavals of electric storms, exceeding 
 by a thousand fold all the cyclones and 
 tornadoes ever witnessed on this earth, 
 can only be accounted for on the the- 
 ory of electrical action. 
 
 The spots seen on the surface of the 
 sun through the telescope can be noth- 
 ing less than immense chasms through 
 the photosphere, caused by these 
 storms. 
 
AND MOTION. 13 
 
 We need only advance along this 
 line, step by step, and with facts that 
 cannot be denied, and we will finally 
 arrive at conclusions to which the 
 most advanced science of our times 
 can offer no objections. 
 
 Dr. Newcomb says: "The great 
 question in the present state of science 
 is how the supply of heat is maintained 
 against such an immense loss by radia- 
 tion." 
 
 Well, we may now proclaim that we 
 have found the ever-flowing fountain, 
 streaming out from every star and 
 every world throughout the universal 
 empire — enough to supply all demands 
 for millions on millions of years. 
 
 All other theories point to a waste 
 of energies that foretell the final doom 
 of nature; but electricity can never fail. 
 It has in it the elements of perpetual 
 motion. It manifests a power that is 
 sui generis. It works for humanity in 
 thousands of forms, from the sewing 
 machine up to the locomotive drawing 
 a train of passengers. 
 
 It carries a message of friendly 
 greeting to the different nations of the 
 earth and passes around the world in 
 a few minutes. 
 
14 MIND, MATTER 
 
 It submits to the restraints of the 
 human mind and will, yet outside of 
 these restraints its power is boundless 
 and yet under the control of a higher 
 law, working out the designs of an in- 
 finite mind and will. 
 
 The late Professor Tyndall says: 
 "When the history of the dynamical 
 theory of heat is written, the man who, 
 in opposition to the scientific belief of 
 his times, could experiment, and rea- 
 son upon experiment, cannot be 
 lightly passed over." If I am mis- 
 taken it is proper for some of the wise 
 men of our time to correct the error. 
 If I am correct they should give en- 
 couraging testimony to the truth of 
 this theory. 
 
 HOW THE EARTH IS WARMED 
 BY THE SUN'S RAYS. 
 
 The fact has been strangely over- 
 looked that sunshine possesses proper- 
 ties different from the light produced 
 by the ordinary combustion of terres- 
 trial material substances. By a due 
 consideration of this the mistakes al- 
 ready referred to could have been 
 avoided. Then, as has already been 
 
AND MOTION. 15 
 
 stated, heat is not an independent ex- 
 isting thing. Its existence depends 
 on mechanical or chemical action, and 
 it cannot pass through cold space and 
 retain its existence without a repro- 
 ducing cause. The fuel stored in our 
 vaults or places of deposits, to warm 
 our dwelling places or run our ma- 
 chinery, contains the elements from 
 which heat is produced, but this can 
 only be accomplished when the fuel is 
 subjected to the chemical action called 
 combustion. Then the heat is pro- 
 duced. 
 
 We cannot say that the heat is la- 
 tent in the fuel, neither can we say 
 that light is latent in the candle before 
 it is lighted. We might as well claim 
 that there is latent ice in hot water, as 
 to say that there is latent heat in cold 
 water or a latent mountain in a mole 
 hill. 
 
 The process by which cold things 
 are made hot in the ordinary course 
 of nature is generally understood, but 
 the process by which our earth is 
 warmed by the sun's rays is not gener- 
 ally understood, and hence the many 
 conflicting theories on this subject. 
 The latest, and now most generally re- 
 
16 MIND, MATTER 
 
 ceived theory, by astronomers, is that 
 the immense solar orb is shrinking, 
 and that by this process of contraction 
 it is producing an enormous quantity 
 of heat, which is radiated into space 
 from this common center, and of this 
 only a small fractional part reaches the 
 planets, and by far the greater part is 
 a prodigal waste in boundless space. 
 
 Now, if heat is regarded as an en- 
 ergy in nature, and if, according to the 
 materialistic theory, all energies are 
 conserved and indestructible; where 
 and how is this radiated heat con- 
 served? We might as well claim that 
 sunshine must be conserved or stored 
 in some dark place to be utilized for 
 other work in the future. This would 
 be about as unphilosophical as Pro- 
 fessor Balfour Steward's theory of a 
 great waste heap somewhere in the 
 universe where heat is stored away to 
 burn up everything in the distant fu- 
 ture. This theory of an eternal inde- 
 structible energy as the ruling power of 
 the universe has caused endless con- 
 fusion and led to conclusions that can- 
 not be made to harmonize with true 
 science. 
 
 But again, we will look at facts that 
 
AND MOTION. 1? 
 
 cannot be denied in reference to solar 
 heat, as it manifests itself on our earth. 
 Rays of light from the sun, passing 
 from a rare to a denser medium are 
 refracted, and diverted from their nat- 
 ural course. A double convex lens 
 brings the rays together at a focus 
 where the friction of these crowded 
 rays will produce a burning fire. A 
 concavo convex lens will produce a 
 milder form of light and a less degree 
 of heat. This is the condition of our 
 atmosphere. It is denser than inter- 
 stellar ether and concave inside and 
 convex outside, and the density in- 
 creases as we pass from the outer to 
 the inner side. Hence, the sun gives 
 us more heat in lower than in higher 
 regions of the atmosphere. At the 
 outer rim of our atmosphere the cold 
 is so intense that no life, such as is 
 known on our earth, could possibly ex- 
 ist. Even on the highest mountains 
 in tropical climates no vegetable nor 
 animal life can exist. They are cov- 
 ered with perpetual frost and snow. 
 When the rays of light first strike our 
 atmosphere they are diffused and there 
 is a glow of light in all directions. As 
 these rays descend they are refracted 
 
18 MIND, MATTER 
 
 by the lens' action of the atmosphere, 
 and this increases till the earth is 
 reached; then the amount of heat is 
 governed by the angle at which the 
 sun's rays strike the atmosphere. In 
 the winter the rays strike more ob- 
 liquely, andtherefraction is diminished, 
 while in the summer they come nearer 
 the perpendicular and we have more 
 heat, although we are three millions of 
 miles farther from the sun in July than 
 we are in January. 
 
 Some recent writers have told us 
 that the heat is in the sun's rays, but 
 that it cannot manifest itself until it 
 comes in contact with some hard sub- 
 stance, such as the earth, and then it 
 is produced by a concussion. This 
 untenable theory meets its own refuta- 
 tion in the fact that these rays of light 
 fall on the vast mountain ranges with 
 equal force as on the low lands, and 
 there is no heat knocked out of them in 
 those high altitudes. Again, if the 
 heat from the sun was produced by 
 this concussion we would have a more 
 uniform temperature in the different 
 seasons of the year, for it must be pre- 
 sumed that the sun's rays strike with 
 equal force always. 
 
AND MOTION. 19 
 
 Among the strange theories ad- 
 vanced on this subject is that by Pro- 
 fessor Tyndall, that "one-half of the 
 heat from the sun is kept from the 
 earth by the aqueous vapors of our at- 
 mosphere." 
 
 Now, it can be demonstrated that 
 this aqueous vapor in our atmosphere 
 is one great cause of the heat we re- 
 ceive from the sun. To demonstrate 
 this I have constructed a water lens, 
 and after passing the rays, of light 
 through several inches of ice cold 
 water I can produce a burning at the 
 focus without changing the tempera- 
 ture of the water through which the 
 rays of light pass. By constructing a 
 concavo convex lens, resembling the 
 form of our atmosphere, and putting 
 cold water between the outer and the 
 inner glasses, and by allowing the rays 
 of sunlight to strike this obliquely, the 
 thermometer goes down and by turn- 
 ing it toward the sun the thermometer 
 rose 1 8 degrees on a cold winter day in 
 a cold room and the sunlight coming 
 in through a frosted window. To one 
 who depends on facts to establish a 
 theory, it is amusing to hear the wild 
 conjectures of one who only guesses 
 
20 MIND, MATTER 
 
 at things on which to build a 
 theory. 
 
 A lecturer in Chicago on astron- 
 omy, some years ago, while endeav- 
 oring to explain the nature of heat 
 from the sun said: "I would fear to 
 tell you the terrible condition our 
 earth would be in if the atmosphere 
 did not keep off from us a great part of 
 the sun's heat." This man should 
 have known that if we had no atmos- 
 phere to change these electric rays 
 into heat rays, no life could exist on 
 our earth. 
 
 From this theory we learn that 
 changes of temperature so common in 
 northern climates must depend on at- 
 mospheric changes. We certainly 
 cannot think that the sun's rays are 
 warmer on one day than on another, 
 but we are compelled to admit by un- 
 deniable facts and by the sternest logic 
 of events, that the changes of tempera- 
 ture are caused by atmospheric con- 
 ditions. These are not to be regarded 
 as chance happenings or accidents in 
 nature, but the results of an operation 
 of natural laws established by an in- 
 finite power. 
 
AND MOTION. 21 
 
 THE CONDITIONS OF MATTER 
 AND THE ORIGIN OF HU- 
 MAN LIFE AND MIND. 
 
 Matter exists under an endless va- 
 riety of forms and conditions, such as 
 solid, fluids and gases, ponderable and 
 imponderable, visible and invisible, in 
 simple elements and compounds; yet 
 in all these combinations and changes 
 its primal elements remain unchanged. 
 The identity of a particle of 
 matter cannot be destroyed by trans- 
 formations or transmutations. What- 
 ever may be said of the inherent en- 
 ergy* or molecular motion, the one 
 great truth remains, that inorganic 
 matter is inert, and cannot transfer 
 itself from one position or place to an- 
 other. It can only move when it is 
 acted upon by a force outside of or 
 above itself, or by a life within it. 
 
 Now, as we see inorganic matter in 
 motion in every direction, we must 
 conclude that it is under the control- 
 ling influence of some power from out- 
 side of itself, or some chemical or me- 
 chanical force within, not natural to it, 
 to which it must submit without a 
 choice or will of its own. 
 
22 MIND, MATTER 
 
 We also see matter controlled by a 
 life within it, growing from small to 
 large forms in the different depart- 
 ments of animal and vegetable life. 
 Here the question comes up with pe- 
 culiar emphasis: Whence came this 
 first impulse to move matter from the 
 outside or this life that moves and con- 
 trols it from within? Back of these 
 there is- another important question: 
 Whence came these helpless and inert 
 forms of matter in their endless vari- 
 ety? Again, did matter produce it- 
 self, and then impart to itself the en- 
 ergy by which it was put into motion? 
 And, finally, did this unconscious en- 
 ergy produce life and raise it from its 
 lowest to its highest condition? These 
 perplexing questions will continually 
 come up before the mind of the specu- 
 lative inquirers after the origin of 
 things, without recognizing an infinite 
 mind and an all-controlling power above 
 nature. To the believer in the super- 
 natural these questions are welcome 
 messengers, coming up from the past 
 eternity and the answer is at hand. 
 Matter could not produce itself, and 
 that life could not become connected 
 with matter without a previous life and 
 
AND MOTION. 28 
 
 life-giving power. This is now gen- 
 erally received as a truth in biology, 
 all life must come from a pre-existing 
 life. Matter was first dowered with 
 motion and then with the power and 
 conditions to produce life. 
 
 We need not seek to reconcile the 
 Bible history of creation with the con- 
 ceptions of modern materialistic 
 science, or to make it harmonize with 
 them, but will call attention to the his- 
 tory of creation as recorded in the first 
 chapter of Genesis, verse 20: "And 
 God said, let the water bring forth 
 abundantly the moving creature that 
 hath life, and the fowl that may fly 
 about the open firmament of heaven." 
 Again, verse 24: "And God said, let 
 the earth bring forth the living crea- 
 ture after his kind, and cattle and 
 creeping things, and beast of the earth 
 after his kind, and it was so/' It is also 
 stated in this connection that God 
 CREATED these things. The word 
 creation does not necessarily imply the 
 making of something out of hand with- 
 out the employment of secondary 
 causes. It is often used to express a 
 transformation or change from one 
 condition to another. 
 
24 MIND, MATTER 
 
 In the account given in Genesis we 
 have, first, a preparation of the water 
 and the earth, for the support of life, 
 and then the vitalizing principle im- 
 parted to these elements, and by this 
 they were dowered with the power to 
 BRING FORTH the different forms 
 of life. We cannot account for this on 
 any other principle than the designs 
 of an infinite intelligence, executed by 
 an Almighty Power. 
 
 This gives to us a more exalted 
 view of creation than the theory 
 guessed at by evolutionists, that there 
 were a few prime-ordeal germs from 
 which the different conditions of life 
 came, by a process of evolution, in- 
 cluding the human race. Where, in 
 all literature, will we find a more 
 rational account of the beginning of 
 life than here. 
 
 This relieves us from the childish 
 fancy that God, by some mechanical 
 process, made all the different animals 
 separately. He made the conditions 
 for their existence and arranged the 
 material for their nourishment, and by 
 the power of his word and will they 
 were "BROUGHT FORTH," so that 
 in the highest sense he is the creator 
 
AND MOTION. 25 
 
 of all things. In this connection we 
 notice that the creation of man was 
 by a different process, and any effort 
 to place man's origin on the same level 
 with the lower animals indicates a dis- 
 belief in one of the fundamental doc- 
 trines of theology. It is the denial of 
 a power above nature and a rejection 
 of the supernatural. 
 
 The recognition of the infinite and 
 controlling power is the only postu- 
 late on which we can build a rational 
 theory of the origin of life and the 
 constancy and course of the universe. 
 
 The aim of modern science now is 
 to admit some theological ideas, such 
 as they can bring in harmony with 
 their atheistic conception of cosmog- 
 ony, and to form a new system of re- 
 ligion that will reject all ideas of the 
 supernatural. 
 
 A careful study of the relation of 
 different parts to one immense and 
 harmonious whole, will naturally lead 
 the thoughtful mind in the direction 
 of the supernatural, a power that is 
 not inherent in matter, nor produced 
 by natural laws. 
 
 A materialistic philosophy objects 
 to the word supernatural and claims 
 
26 MIND, MATTER 
 
 that all the operations are carried on 
 by a natural process. 
 
 A moment's reflection and thought 
 of our surroundings will show the er- 
 ror of such conclusions. Our houses 
 do not build themselves. Machines do 
 not put themselves in operation. Our 
 garments do not make themselves, and 
 the thousands of comfortable things 
 that come to our needy would all come 
 through instrumentalities that are 
 above the operation of mere natural 
 laws. When rough materials are 
 formed into a beautiful dwelling-place 
 we know some mind has ordered it so. 
 
 HOW TRUTH MAY BE FOUND. 
 
 The safest way to find truth, when it 
 is surrounded with numerous errors, 
 is to test theories by experiments in 
 such a manner as to make mistakes 
 impossible. This is the only way in 
 which we can pass from mere theories 
 and conjectures to well-established 
 facts in all branches of knowledge. 
 
 Many of the great and well-estab- 
 lished truths in physical science were 
 first advanced as theories, and when 
 
AND MOTION. 27 
 
 fully demonstrated by facts they were 
 classed as established science. 
 
 When new discoveries in art or 
 science are offered, the first question 
 should be : Can they be demonstrated 
 by properly conducted experiments. 
 If a machine is invented the question 
 is : Will it perform the w r ork for which 
 it was designed? All things have their 
 value or importance to the great store 
 of scientific knowledge, through the 
 result of fairly conducted experiments. 
 Everything claiming to be a contribu- 
 tion to science that does not come 
 within this range should be rejected. 
 If this principle were strittly observed 
 and everything erased from books that 
 are published in the name of science 
 that cannot be demonstrated, at least 
 one-third of the writings of our times, 
 on scientific subjects, would be re- 
 jected. This is evident from the fact 
 that numerous contradictory and con- 
 flicting statements are made by differ- 
 ent writers on the same subjects claim- 
 ing to be scientific discussions, and 
 generally without facts to sustain them, 
 and yet these books are published as 
 scientific discoveries. 
 
 I have made experiments in elec- 
 
28 MIND, MATTER 
 
 tricity which, according to the best of 
 my knowledge, have not been made 
 before, and the conclusion arrived at 
 from them are of the most startling 
 and important kind. If I am not mis- 
 taken, and I think I am not, our theory 
 of cosmogony, in some respects, will 
 be replaced by another. My theory 
 is that gravitation is only one part of 
 the controlling power in planetary mo- 
 tion, and that worlds are moved, held 
 together and governed by the laws of 
 magnetic attraction and repulsion, in 
 connection with the general law of 
 gravitation. If my theory is true, it is 
 evident that it is one of far-reaching 
 importance. I mention that the sun 
 is an immense electric light, as stated 
 in a previous chapter. The general 
 storehouse of the solar system for elec- 
 tricity and that all celestial bodies 
 move, not by the law of gravitation 
 alone, but by the law of magnetic at- 
 traction and repulsion. 
 
 Newton saw one apple fall and re- 
 ceived an impression in reference to 
 the law of gravitation. Now, under 
 favorable atmospheric conditions, 
 when the atmosphere is dry and cold 
 and the wind blows from the north I 
 
AND MOTION. 29 
 
 can suspend an apple in the air in the 
 following manner: I tie a string to 
 the stem of the apple and fasten the 
 other end of the string to a large sheet 
 of paper, and then lay the paper on my 
 desk or press it against the wall, and 
 by passing my hand over it, in a half a 
 minute I will produce electro magnet- 
 ism enough to hold an apple sus- 
 pended in the air. 
 
 I can then, by electro-magnetism, 
 make the apple, or any other substance 
 suspended in the air, move around on 
 its axes from east to west or from west 
 to east, without any visible force com- 
 ing in contact with it, and reverse these 
 motions at my pleasure by causing a 
 magnetic current to pass around it. 
 
 Again, I can take two large sheets 
 of paper, of equal weight, say ten to 
 fifteen grains weight, the one elec- 
 trified and the other in its natural state. 
 The one with the electricity will fly up 
 and adhere to something above it, 
 while the other will fall to the floor. 
 
 Now, if the motion of a surface four 
 inches square will cause fifteen grains 
 in weight to fly in opposition to the 
 laws of gravitation here on earth, 
 where electric currents are interfered 
 
30 MIND, MATTER 
 
 with by the aqueous vapor of the at- 
 mosphere, what may we expect from 
 the motion of the sun and the planets 
 through ether space, where there is no 
 such interference and where the sur- 
 face producing friction is almost be- 
 yond the reach of mathematical calcu- 
 lation? I have, under favorable at- 
 mospheric conditions, produced mag- 
 netic attraction in a half a minute, 
 strong enough to hold a pound weight 
 suspended in the air. 
 
 I assume that electricity is an entity 
 in nature, and not merely the result of 
 chemical or mechanical action. The 
 manifestations of this giant power are 
 too strong and multifarious to admit 
 that they are only the result of other 
 and inferior agents. These only serve 
 to bring this pre-existing entity into 
 active operation. 
 
 Here we have undeniable facts, ar- 
 rived at by carefully conducted experi- 
 ments, and not merely by guessing that 
 these things might be so. 
 
 We should look at nature as a great 
 school, where the object lessons are 
 atoms, and worlds, and suns and stars. 
 We should give heed to their instruc- 
 tions with profound attention and 
 
AND MOTION. 31 
 
 gather up every fragment of truth scat- 
 tered over these boundless fields, and 
 from them learn all that is allowed for 
 us to know of that infinite power that 
 rules and controls the whole. In one 
 sense 
 
 "All matter is God's tongue; 
 Out from its motions God's thoughts 
 
 are sung; 
 And the realms of space are the octave 
 
 bars, 
 And the music notes are the sun's and 
 
 stars." 
 These tones are not heard by mortal 
 ears, yet we see them "leap into space 
 from a thousand choirs" to sing the 
 epic of the starry heavens. 
 
 Facts in science that can be demon- 
 strated as such point in the direction 
 of a supreme ruler of the universe, 
 while the speculations of modern 
 science point in the direction of athe- 
 ism and the final failure of nature's 
 energies. 
 
 COMBINED FORCES OF NA- 
 TURE. 
 In every part of this vast universe, 
 in the great or in the small, we see 
 evidences of an all-controlling mind. 
 
32 MIND, MATTER 
 
 The ' lines of force, originating in 
 the Infinite Power, move out as in- 
 struments in the hands of this Power, 
 which acts on nature through the 
 operation of changeless laws, and not 
 by an uncreated energy that is hasten- 
 ing to its final doom. 
 
 This, however, brings to the border 
 line of mysteries beyond which we 
 cannot pass; but the mystery is more 
 profound by the assumption of an 
 eternal unconscious energy than in 
 the recognition of an eternal intelligent 
 Power. If we are forced to admit that 
 by the operation of natural laws many 
 things occur that cause human suffer- 
 ing, we must also admit that by the 
 operation of these same laws multi- 
 plied thousands of things come to us 
 that satisfy our wants and especially 
 contribute to our happiness of body 
 and mind. When it is said, "The 
 Lord sendeth his rain upon the just 
 and upon the unjust," we are not to 
 believe that by some supernatural 
 power he formed the clouds and put 
 the water into them and then caused 
 them to pour out their contents upon 
 the earth. There are numerous in- 
 termediate forces, each performing a 
 
AND MOTION. 33 
 
 separate part in this process of bring- 
 ing rain. There must be the lifting 
 power of the sun's rays to take up the 
 water; the formation of the clouds; 
 and the power of the atmosphere to 
 sustain the clouds, and the wind as 
 motive power to propel them onward 
 in their course; and finally the power 
 of gravitation to bring the rain from 
 the clouds to the earth. 
 
 Among the great working forces in 
 nature we find electro-magnetism and 
 repulsion. 
 
 There is a pull and a push through- 
 out the vast empire of matter. Elec- 
 tro-magnetism plays an important part 
 in these strange phenomena. While 
 making some experiments along this 
 line I was myself surprised at the re- 
 sults, so that I concluded to make 
 a record of them to illustrate my views. 
 But fearing that I might be charged 
 with an exaggeration from an excited 
 imagination I called at the office of 
 my friend, Dr. Cady, a prominent den- 
 tist. I told him I wished to explain 
 the flight of birds through the air. 
 I had with me a bunch of duck feath- 
 ers, and laid them on the table. I then 
 told the Doctor I would make a few 
 
34 MIND, MATTER 
 
 passes with my hand over a sheet of 
 paper, not stronger than the motion 
 of a duck's wing striking the air. When 
 I held this paper from four to six 
 inches distant over the bunch of feath- 
 ers they immediately flew up and fas- 
 tened themselves to this paper at one 
 end, while the other end stood at right 
 angles from the paper, quivering and 
 shaking as if some power was pulling 
 them to get them away from the paper ; 
 and so it did, for a number of them 
 were pulled off and immediately fas- 
 tened themselves to something else in 
 another direction. I then turned the 
 paper around while these feathers were 
 standing on one end and the other 
 end trembling in the air. I then 
 passed my left hand under the paper 
 some distance from the paper, and 
 with every motion of my hand they 
 would jump and crawl over the paper 
 like living things in rapid motion. 
 
 Dr. Cady was so deeply interested 
 and so highly delighted with the ex- 
 periment that he said, "It is too im- 
 portant for me to witness it alone," 
 and called in his friend Dr. Newman, 
 before whom I repeated the experi- 
 ments. 
 
AND MOTION. 35 
 
 I explained to them that electro- 
 magnetism was produced by the mo- 
 tion of the wings like I produced it 
 by the motion of my hands, and this 
 is the reason why large fowls or birds 
 sail through the air with such appar- 
 ent ease. I have made numerous ex- 
 periments of this kind to show the in- 
 timate relation between vital forces 
 and electro-magnetism, and will make 
 more definite explanations further on. 
 I only here refer to the universal law 
 of electro-magnetism and its control- 
 ling influence over moving bodies. 
 One law in physical science is that 
 experiments made on a small scale will 
 illustrate what can be done on a large 
 scale. The difference is not qualita- 
 tive but only quantitative. 
 
 The small portion of the power of 
 electricity now employed in machin- 
 ery and for light and heat and run- 
 ning trains for traffic and travel, can 
 give us only a limited idea of its power 
 in holding and guiding suns and 
 worlds, as they move in their endless 
 circuits through boundless space. 
 
 If gravitation acted alone on these 
 celestial bodies without the counteract- 
 ing and controlling influence of elec- 
 
36 MIND, MATTER 
 
 tro-magnetic repulsion, suns and their 
 satellites would be drawn into a solid 
 mass and wreck and ruin would be the 
 final doom of all revolving bodies. 
 
 This is no idle dream of the imag- 
 ination. It is a truth that comes 
 within the range of human knowledge 
 and scientific demonstration; and be- 
 comes more clear as we advance in 
 our investigation of the nature of elec- 
 tricity, and its influence in the govern- 
 ment of the physical universe. 
 
 Electricity performs an important 
 part in producing the light of the sun 
 and conducting these rays of light 
 through inter-stellar ether space to the 
 different planets and their satellites. 
 
 Electricity pervades all ether space, 
 penetrates all substances, and, like a 
 slumbering giant, only waits to be 
 called into activity by some dynamic 
 power, when it will show its strength 
 in the work it is directed to perform. 
 
 Scientific investigation gives daily 
 new evidences of the extent of this 
 power in Nature. It runs out along 
 a slender wire, by which it is conducted 
 to the car wheels, and they move like 
 living things with the crowds of pas- 
 sengers, through the city. 
 
AND MOTION. 37 
 
 How few of us realize the fact that 
 while we are passing to or from our 
 daily toil or seeking amusement or 
 pleasure in riding on these electric 
 cars that we are all on board of a more 
 magnificent train — this earth. This 
 wonderful chariot of the sky, in its 
 journey around the sun, moves over 
 sixty-five thousand miles in an hour 
 without a danger of coming in conflict 
 with the other numerous bodies mov- 
 ing around the same central sun. 
 
 According to the knowledge we gain 
 by experiments on a small scale, we 
 are led to the conclusion that these 
 revolving planets in their rapid move- 
 ment through space must be centers 
 of power to evolve electro-magnetism 
 to an almost unlimited extent. 
 
 If the planets are an offspring from 
 the sun, as the Nebular hypothesis 
 claims, we may naturally conclude 
 that these circling orbs may contrib- 
 ute their part in supplying the grand 
 old luminary with materials out of 
 which sunshine is made. This would 
 be an illustration of the corelation of 
 force; but by no means a proof of the 
 eternal equivalents of forces, accord- 
 ing to the materialistic conceptions. 
 
38 MIND, MATTER 
 
 This corelation between the sun and 
 the planets gives us a more rational 
 view than the old theories of the sun 
 consuming cosmical matter, and then 
 to meet an inglorious ending when all 
 the meteoric showers are consumed 
 by a process of combustion. It is also 
 opposed to the later theory that the 
 light and heat of the sun are kept up 
 by the shrinking of the sun. 
 
 This shrinking theory must finally 
 yield to the demands of advancing sci- 
 ence. 
 
 All theories hitherto offered on the 
 cause of solar heat, and radiation, im- 
 ply a w r aste of energies and the final 
 destruction of the solar orb, and con- 
 sequently an eternal night on all of 
 the planets where the existence of life 
 is possible. The same destiny would 
 await all the sun systems in the uni- 
 verse. A gloomy picture, painted in 
 the imagination of the atheist, who 
 says in his heart, "there is no God." 
 If the theories referred to were true 
 these gloomy conclusions necessarily 
 follow; But there is no proof to sus- 
 tain them. The sentiments of some 
 of the greatest and best men that ever 
 lived are against such a disastrous end- 
 
AND MOTION. 30 
 
 ing of a system of worlds, where every 
 particle and form of matter give evi- 
 dence that they are the product of an 
 infinite intelligence. 
 
 With such views we need not be 
 disturbed in reference to the future 
 progress of this great universal em- 
 pire of matter. The changes that 
 have taken place in the past, so clearly 
 indicated by geological research in 
 material nature, and the condition of 
 things may be regarded as prophesies 
 of changes to come in the future, and 
 these will more likely be changes from 
 a lower to a higher condition, than a 
 falling back to decay and final destruc- 
 tion. Nature, in her progress, has a 
 voice of encouragement to those who 
 look into the future, and contemplate 
 her extended fields with confidence 
 and hope. 
 
 Should any of the old pass away the 
 promise is, "behold I make all things 
 new." "There shall be a new heaven 
 and a new earth." If we take an ima- 
 ginary journey through space, and 
 view the motion of planets around 
 their central suns and reason from our 
 knowledge of terrestrial electricity and 
 magnetism, we learn important les- 
 
40 MIND, MATTER 
 
 sons. We know something of the 
 power of attraction and repulsion that 
 may be produced by electrical action 
 on a small scale, and by calculating 
 results from increasing magnitudes 
 we may form some idea of the dy- 
 namic power produced by the revolu- 
 tion of celestial bodies. If we view 
 the sun as in a highly charged elec- 
 tric condition, and this condition main- 
 tained by the action of surrounding 
 globes as dynamos of immense power 
 and exhaustless resources, we need 
 have no fears of the final ending of this 
 solar system from a want of light and 
 heat. The planets that are moving 
 around the sun in their orbits and 
 whirling around on their axes are not 
 there as mere dumbbells for the amuse- 
 ment of astronomers, who calculate 
 their distance, magnitudes and pe- 
 riods of revolution. 
 
 They are there for a purpose, and 
 are held in the mighty grasp of the 
 sun's attraction to keep them from 
 wandering into unknown space, and 
 they are kept from falling into the sun 
 by electric repulsion, and these two 
 balancing forces hold them to their 
 work and guide them in their orbits. 
 
AND MOTION. 41 
 
 Whatever different stages the sun 
 and the solar system may have passed 
 through in the process of rising from 
 a chaotic mass of formless matter to 
 its present condition, by the operation 
 of natural laws, the devout astron- 
 omer, the Christian philosopher, as 
 well as the most humble dweller on 
 this earth, who recognize the supreme 
 Power, will attribute all these opera- 
 tions to this ultimate Power. 
 
 The conclusion we arrive at is that 
 the sun itself was formed by a union 
 of different parts and qualities of mat- 
 ter. 
 
 It was then dowered with powers 
 and energies to act on other parts in 
 the great drama of creation. 
 
 The unity of matter, in its different 
 elements, as revealed by the spectro- 
 scope, presents a strong argument in 
 favor of the unity of origins. 
 
 From every star and from every 
 world where light has come to us we 
 have proof that the same elements con- 
 tained in our earth are also found in 
 those distant worlds. All existing 
 things must have their origin in an 
 eternal intelligent existence. 
 
 We are led to the conclusion that 
 
42 MIND, MATTER 
 
 while matter has been tending to 
 changes it has also been blending with 
 higher forms and more beautiful com- 
 binations corresponding with the prog- 
 ress of human minds and human 
 skill. Every globe or revolving body 
 must necessarily have a magnetic cen- 
 ter around which the materials are 
 attracted to build it up to its destined 
 size. 
 
 Outside of, and apart from, an in- 
 telligent cause, we can find no answer 
 to the question how these magnetic 
 centers found their proper location in 
 space, to move in harmony with other 
 large globes revolving around one 
 common center at different distances 
 and well-defined periods of time. That 
 these magnetic centers do exist, to 
 which materials are attracted for world 
 building, is a fact that can be demon- 
 strated by a scientific process of rea- 
 soning. 
 
 The theory, based upon the Nebu- 
 lar hypothesis, that parts were thrown 
 off from the central mass, out of which 
 worlds were formed, cannot be recon- 
 ciled with the laws of gravitation 
 alone. Neither can the axel or orbital 
 motion of the planets be brought into 
 
AND MOTION. 43 
 
 harmony with these laws as published 
 by Newton, and now generally recog- 
 nized as true. 
 
 Here we have to deal with attrac- 
 tion and repulsion. While parts of 
 matter are drawn in one direction as 
 a positive draws a negative, another 
 part is repelled, as a positive by a posi- 
 tive. These laws of positive and neg- 
 ative attraction and repulsion are uni- 
 versal in their nature. On them the 
 variety and harmony and stability of 
 the universe depend. We see this 
 law manifested in the growth of trees, 
 their leaves, and all things through- 
 out the vegetable kingdom, in blades 
 of grass, leaves of plants and buds and 
 flowers. 
 
 We seldom, if ever, see a perfect 
 circle in nature. The planets move in 
 elliptic orbits around the sun. Every 
 shape and form of matter gives evi- 
 dence of this attractive and repellant 
 force in nature. The irregularities in 
 formation seen everywhere show that 
 there are antagonizing forces that 
 work everywhere, producing variety 
 as well as harmony and beauty. Na- 
 ture wears her garments of many 
 forms, as well as of many colors, and 
 
44 MIND, MATTER 
 
 challenges our admiration in her va- 
 riety, as well as in her harmony. These 
 working forces have their home in 
 the sun as the great central power of 
 our solar system. 
 
 The nature and the effect of the 
 sun's rays of light give unmistakable 
 proof that they are not the product of 
 the ordinary combustion of cosmical 
 matter. Neither can they be the re- 
 sult of the sun's shrinking upon itself! 
 They are dowered with a vivifying 
 power found nowhere else in nature. 
 Shut them off from any part of the 
 earth and there is darkness and death. 
 Let them have an unobstructed influ- 
 ence, and life and activity spring up 
 under the magic touch of the sunbeam. 
 
 In this vast storehouse of vitalizing 
 forces we see a coming and a going, 
 a pulling and a pushing, an expansion 
 and contraction, a rising and a fall- 
 ing; not in dire confusion, producing 
 horrid and unsightly forms and deadly 
 poisons, but fragrant flowers, with 
 beautiful colors, and birds with beau- 
 tiful plumage. 
 
 All these things come from the op- 
 eration of laws established by an om- 
 nipotent Power. 
 
AND MOTION. 45 
 
 Theism claims that this all-control- 
 ling power existed before matter ap- 
 peared, and before life was in any way 
 connected with matter. Atheism is 
 compelled to acknowledge these phe- 
 nomena of existence, and with scalpel 
 and microscope in hand, and by chem- 
 ical tests seeks for the origin of life 
 in matter; and the origin of matter in 
 an unconscious, unintelligent eternal 
 energy; but this effort finds its utmost 
 limits in mysteries incomprehensible. 
 
 CARE FOR THE HOUSE WE 
 LIVE IN. 
 
 The marvelous structure of the hu- 
 man body is composed of the same ma- 
 terial that is found in nature every- 
 where. Among these are Oxygen, 
 Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Cal- 
 cium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sul- 
 phur, Chlorine, Sodium, Magnesium, 
 Iron, Fluorine. 
 
 These elements are arranged in 
 their proper order to build up this 
 dwelling place for our higher and 
 moral nature. 
 
 The dweller in this temple of so many 
 compartments is endowed with voli- 
 
46 MIND, MATTER 
 
 tion, and to a certain extent of exer- 
 cising a watchful care over the differ- 
 ent parts of this dwelling place. 
 
 No organic system is so> wonderfully 
 arranged as the human body. If we 
 look with care at the different parts 
 and their different functions we will 
 be led to the same conclusion we ar- 
 rive at when contemplating nature in 
 her adaptation to the wants of the hu- 
 man race 
 
 "There's an infinite presence every- 
 where, 
 And it beats like a pulse on each globe 
 
 of air, 
 There's infinite will from an infinite 
 
 cause, 
 Which twines throughout nature's 
 harmonic laws." 
 In looking at some of the prominent 
 parts of this wonderful system we will 
 especially notice the nervous system. 
 These lines of intercommunication 
 have been laid with a master hand, and 
 to a certain extent they are in our care, 
 and we become responsible for their 
 normal action. Nothing in the whole 
 animal economy is so complex and so 
 wonderful in its operation as this. All 
 animals, except, perhaps, some of the 
 lowest forms, are supplied with nerves 
 
AND MOTION. i; 
 
 of motion and sensation, but the com- 
 plexity increases as we ascend from the 
 lower forms of organic life, and with 
 this increase the susceptibility to im- 
 pressions from external surroundings, 
 as well as from internal disturbance, 
 also increases. It is only in the higher 
 classes of animals the nerve power can 
 get such a control of the muscles as to 
 force them from their natural position 
 and functions and produce the condi- 
 tion called spasms. A pig with its 
 coarse nervous system, and a goose 
 with its small brain, are not subject to 
 spasms. The dog and the cat, with 
 some other animals of a higher grade 
 of nerve development, are more or less 
 subject to spasms. 
 
 The more highly cultivated of the 
 human race are more susceptible to a 
 derangement of the nervous system 
 than the uneducated and laboring 
 classes. This comes from the fact that 
 the brain and other nerve centers are 
 often overtaxed by severe mental ex- 
 ertion, or disturbed in their healthy 
 action by physical derangements and 
 diseases, brought upon ourselves by 
 our ignorance of the laws of our phy- 
 sical nature. 
 
48 MIND, MATTER 
 
 The nervous system is a telegraphic 
 or electric apparatus of the finest struc- 
 ture and of the highest type and will 
 act as a telephone or telegraph to any 
 part of the system, and it requires con- 
 stant care to keep it in a good condi- 
 tion. 
 
 The want of proper attention would 
 soon render the best constructed tele- 
 graphic system useless. But how 
 roughly do many treat these finely 
 attenuated nerves. These proceeding 
 from the brain and spinal column meet 
 at way stations called ganglion. These 
 are situated in different parts of the 
 body, like towns and villages in a 
 country. Into these the different 
 branches enter like so* many roads in 
 a village. From these small centers 
 they pass out, each one to the minutest 
 ramifications, retaining their peculiar 
 functions and performing the work for 
 which they were intended. Among 
 the marvelous things connected with 
 the nervous system is their peculiar 
 action along the different branches, ac- 
 cording to impressions made upon the 
 nerve centers by mental emotions. 
 
 A fit of anger may sometimes excite 
 the whole system to such an extent 
 
AND MOTION. 49 
 
 that reason is dethroned, and a man 
 may, for a moment, act like a furious 
 animal, beyond the bounds of account- 
 ability for his actions. In some in- 
 stances a kind word affectionately 
 spoken with a magnetic hand gently 
 passed over the excited brain will allay 
 the storm of passion ; the clouds of an- 
 ger will pass away and a moral sun- 
 shine will beam from the frowning 
 eyes, till they are kindled into a glow 
 of love and affection. 
 
 Excessive grief or joy, over which 
 we may have no control, will often 
 send a message along the line leading 
 to the glands where the tears are se- 
 creted, and the little floodgates are 
 opened, through which tears flow out 
 in streams. 
 
 Hunger, in the presence of good 
 things to eat, will send a messenger in 
 another direction, and open the little 
 water glands in the mouth, and "the 
 mouth waters," and mysterious nature 
 says to the tempting food: I am 
 ready for you. 
 
 All parts of the body are under the 
 influence of the nervous system, and 
 by its action and reaction the body 
 has its storms and calms. No one can 
 
50 MIND, MATTER 
 
 enjoy good health with a broken-down 
 nervous system, and a healthy body is 
 necessary to keep up a healthy condi- 
 tion of the nerves. Both should be 
 under the controlling influence of a 
 well-informed mind in reference to the 
 laws of life and health. 
 
 We should depend more on our own 
 good judgment to keep our nerves in 
 a healthy condition than on the ad- 
 vertised medicines recommended for 
 this purpose. 
 
 STRENGTH OBTAINED BY LA- 
 BOR. 
 
 If the human race had been placed 
 upon the earth and abundantly sup- 
 plied with all needful things in food 
 and raiment, without any demand 
 upon our mental or physical exertions, 
 the race would never have arrived at 
 the high intellectual and physical 
 standard that has marked its career 
 through the past ages. With our 
 present conditions and surroundings 
 we are impelled by our needs to make 
 exertions for our supplies in temporal 
 things and our natural desire for 
 
AND MOTION. 51 
 
 knowledge prompts us to exercise our 
 mental powers for their improvement 
 and our advancement in knowledge. 
 
 In all ages and among all nations, 
 as a general rule, human happiness 
 and prosperity have, in a great meas- 
 ure, depended on conditions within the 
 reach of the great majority of man- 
 kind. The industrious and economi- 
 cal would prosper and secure to them- 
 selves pleasant and comfortable homes, 
 while the shiftless and the indifferent 
 would bring suffering upon them- 
 selves. 
 
 Before letters were invented and be- 
 fore books were written, the minds of 
 men became interested in studying 
 some of the great problems of nature. 
 
 After securing a comfortable dwell- 
 ing place in some tent or cave the in- 
 quiring mind of primitive man en- 
 gaged in those studies that had a ten- 
 dency to direct his mind to a power 
 above himself. Among the first and 
 most important of these studies un- 
 doubtedly was the study of the stars. 
 
 The lonely traveler, or the dweller 
 in his tent or cave, could look upon 
 this vast volume of nature, and with 
 wonder and adoration view these shin- 
 
52 MIND, MATTER 
 
 ing orbs in their apparent march 
 through space. 
 
 The stars were regarded with a kind 
 of veneration, and in some instances 
 as objects of worship. 
 
 These studies, without books or 
 charts to guide them, gave strength 
 to the human mind, while labor for 
 food and raiment developed the phy- 
 sical form; and thus by labor and toil 
 the race became long-lived and 
 strong. Thousands of lives have 
 been shortened and many have gone 
 to premature graves from a want of 
 a proper exercise of their mental and 
 physical powers. 
 
 Labor and toil, in the different 
 fields spread out before us, are in har- 
 mony with our relations to a sur- 
 rounding world of mind and matter; 
 while a refusal to enter into these ex- 
 tended fields produces discontent, 
 weakness, and premature decay. 
 Work is the Divine order in the 
 realms of nature and should be so 
 in the realms of mind. The progress 
 from low to higher conditions in the 
 past gives us a prophecy of what is 
 to come in the future. 
 
 When letters were invented and 
 
AND MOTION. 53 
 
 the art of writing was gradually im- 
 proved, and it was found that the con- 
 ceptions of the human mind could be 
 recorded so as to make them durable, 
 and hand them down to coming gen- 
 erations, a system of astrology was 
 formed. In this the stars were named 
 and numbered, and formed into ima- 
 ginary groups, representing human 
 forms and animals, and various kinds 
 of images suggested by the supersti- 
 tious ideas of those early times. These 
 were supposed to have a controlling 
 influence over the destinies of nations 
 and individuals, while some incor- 
 porated them in their religious wor- 
 ship. 
 
 This arrangement and grouping of 
 the stars has come down to us from 
 the dim and distant past, and the 
 teachings of these ancient astrologers 
 are, in some respects, adhered to by 
 learned men in our advanced state 
 of civilization and scientific research. 
 Out of this system of astrology came 
 the study of astronomy; but many 
 centuries passed before a correct 
 knowledge of the movement of the 
 planets of our solar system was ob- 
 tained. 
 
54 MIND, MATTER 
 
 Until the days of Copernicus it was 
 believed that the earth was the center 
 of the universe, and that the sun and 
 the stars revolved around this im- 
 movable center every twenty-four 
 hours. Copernicus exploded these er- 
 roneous views, and gave us the true 
 system of revolving planets and their 
 satellites around the sun as the cen- 
 ter of our solar system. 
 
 Since his time and the invention 
 of the telescope, great progress has 
 been made in mathematical astron- 
 omy. Many things that were involved 
 in mystery artiong the ancients have 
 passed into the realms of certain 
 knowledge under the teachings of 
 modern science. The measuring line 
 of the astronomer has been extended 
 into boundless space, and distance 
 and periods of revolution have been 
 calculated with an accuracy that 
 amounts to a scientific certainty. 
 
 All these efforts have given strength 
 to the human intellect and dignity to 
 human character and widened the line 
 of separation between human beings 
 and the lower class of animals. These 
 remain the same through all historic 
 ages, while man has been progressing 
 
AND MOTION. 55 
 
 by labor and toil, and continued new 
 discoveries indicate that the goal has 
 not been reached, and the boundaries 
 of human discoveries and inventions 
 have not been passed. 
 
 The effort for a mastery over the 
 mysteries of nature have been success- 
 ful in many departments of knowl- 
 edge. Yet there are large fields still 
 open to inquiring minds. Some 
 things, however, published as scien- 
 tific discoveries ten or fifteen years 
 ago, are now obsolete, while many 
 others remain in obscurity, and the 
 only purpose they serve is a matter 
 of amusement to persons of progres- 
 sive minds and advanced thought, who 
 build their theories on verified facts. 
 
 Where there is a regular succession 
 of facts, one hinging on another, as 
 so many links in a great chain of truth, 
 we must carefully examine the funda- 
 mental truth to be established, and in 
 what way others are connected with 
 the first link in the chain. Or, to use 
 another figure, and look at it as as- 
 cending from lower to higher condi- 
 tions, if we commence at the first 
 round of the ladder on which we ex- 
 pect to ascend, and pass up step by 
 
56 MIND, MATTER 
 
 step to the highest pinnacle of human 
 reason and human knowledge, and 
 can prove that no defects can be found 
 in any one of the steps on which we 
 have ascended, we have a right to 
 demand that our theory shall pass from 
 the realms of hypothesis to the solid 
 foundation of scientific truth. 
 
 THE LIMITATIONS TO HUMAN 
 KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 We do not claim to understand the 
 Power manifested in nature, nor the 
 methods by which infinite designs are 
 accomplished. Science may claim 
 to understand the operation of nat- 
 ural laws; but even here our knowl- 
 edge is very limited. We see natural 
 phenomena and ascribe them to nat- 
 ural causes, and imagine we have done 
 something in the way of illustrating 
 nature, but we have only been playing 
 with toys in the outer court of the 
 great temple of nature, and cannot ex- 
 plain the process how things are done. 
 
 We know that when the rays of light 
 flash out from the solar orb they rush 
 through cold and dark space with an 
 immense velocity, and make their 
 
AND MOTION. 57 
 
 journey to our earth in about eight 
 minutes, a distance of ninety-two and 
 a half millions of miles. 
 
 Science accomplished something 
 when it measured the distance of the 
 earth from the sun and calculated the 
 time for the sun's light to reach our 
 earth. When it arrives here in ex- 
 haustless floods of bright rays science 
 may attempt to explain the laws of 
 solar radiation, but behind these ex- 
 planations there are mysteries above 
 human comprehension. Why does it 
 travel so rapidly? What gives it this 
 impulse? We cannot tell. No rag- 
 ing storm, in a clear sky, can turn 
 a sunbeam from its course nor retard 
 its speed. Its different beautiful col- 
 ors blend into one bright and shining 
 light, and these colors can only be seen 
 when thrown apart by a refracting 
 prism. Science, so far, has given us 
 no certain information in reference to 
 its source nor the cause of its exhaust- 
 less supply. 
 
 If we ask the most illiterate person 
 we meet what it is, we will be told "IT 
 IS SUNSHINE/' and if we ask the 
 philosopher the same question, he can 
 tell us no more. IT IS SUNSHINE. 
 
58 MIND, MATTER 
 
 This is a truth known to all. But when 
 science attempts to explain the origin 
 and cause of this mysterious thing, its 
 different colors and qualities, there 
 are so many different theories ad- 
 vanced that no one can be received 
 as a true statement of facts. Here all 
 is uncertainty and confusion in the 
 scientific ranks, and the deepest con- 
 victions of our moral nature force us 
 to the conclusion that there must be 
 an infinite mind above these strange 
 phenomena. 
 
 We are told that such a Power is 
 incomprehensible to human minds 
 and cannot be admitted in scientific 
 discussions. We might as well doubt 
 the existence of the sun because we 
 cannot comprehend sunshine. Or of 
 heat because we cannot define it nor 
 tell what it is. 
 
 I said to our hired girl one day when 
 she was kindling the fire, "Mary, what 
 is heat?" "Why," said she, "it is 
 something that is made by the fuel 
 when it burns." "But can't you tell 
 what it is?" She replied, "It is some- 
 thing that makes us warm," and this 
 is about all that the learned philoso- 
 pher can tell us about it. 
 
AND MOTION. 59 
 
 No machinery ever invented by 
 human skill has run with such un- 
 varying exactness as our solar system. 
 The balance wheel of these natural 
 motions must be under the control of 
 an infinite mind. The tendency of our 
 times to reject the supernatural arises 
 from a conception of science which 
 claims only to deal w T ith nature under 
 the operation of natural laws. This is 
 all right so far as the purely scientific 
 aspect of the subject is concerned. 
 But the mistake of materialistic sci- 
 ence is in the denial of the supernat- 
 ural in the origin of things and the 
 arrangement of those natural laws. 
 
 It does not require as great a strain 
 on human credulity to assume that 
 an infinite life and Power existed be- 
 fore matter was formed, as to believe 
 that matter had an independent exist- 
 ence from eternity past, and that all 
 life, with all the intellectual powers of 
 philosophers and statesmen, are noth- 
 ing more than the accidental out- 
 growth of some combinations of mat- 
 ter. 
 
 Are we to believe that the poems 
 of Milton and the discoveries of New- 
 ton, with the wisdom of the great men 
 
60 MIND, MATTER 
 
 who have handed down their discov- 
 eries in art and science in volumes of 
 the finest literature the world has ever 
 known, are nothing more than trans- 
 muted bread and meat and potatoes, 
 or some other food digested by human 
 stomachs. 
 
 Human minds, with all their mar- 
 velous capacities, are not mere results 
 of assimilation of crude substances by 
 a digestive process. Mind must be 
 traced to a higher source. The horse 
 and the ox and the mule and the pig 
 may all be fed on the same food that 
 man lives on, and yet their brains have 
 never arrived at the sublime concep- 
 tions of statesmen, poets and philoso- 
 phers. As to their progress in music 
 or the art of expressing themselves in 
 words, there is not the least sign of 
 progress. The horse neighs, the ox 
 bellows, the mule brays, and the pig 
 squeals, just as they did thousands of 
 years ago, and yet the same particles 
 of matter enter into their systems that 
 build up the human system and pro- 
 duce the human brain with its mar- 
 velous powers. 
 
 Prof. Tyndall says : "Matter contains 
 in itself the promise and potency of 
 
AND MOTION. 61 
 
 all life." But whence came this poten- 
 tial energy, if it exists in matter? 
 
 If materialists could prove the spon- 
 taneous generation of some of the 
 lower forms of life from peculiar com- 
 binations of matter they would gain 
 nothing in their argument against a 
 special creation. The question then 
 would be: Did matter produce itself 
 and impart to itself the power to pro- 
 duce life? There is a philosophical 
 demand for a creative power and this 
 we call supernatural. 
 
 Is it more difficult to believe that 
 an infinite and eternally existing life 
 produced all things, than to believe 
 that nature produced itself; that all 
 life had its origin in matter, and that 
 all laws governing the universe, and 
 all life, have resulted from a mere 
 chance combination of molecular mo- 
 tion? 
 
 Where do we find the deepest mys- 
 tery? Not in the conception of an in- 
 finite creator; but in the idea of an 
 eternal unconscious energy without 
 volition or a self-determining power. 
 The believer in the supernatural does 
 not call the accidents of blind chance 
 his parents, nor the undirected move- 
 
62 MIND, MATTER 
 
 ment of molecules his brother or sis- 
 ter. 
 
 But the materialistic philosopher 
 will tell us that natural phenomena 
 are not the result of chance but the 
 product of well-established natural 
 laws. But, we may ask again, whence 
 came these laws? Did they form 
 themselves and put themselves into 
 operation without a controlling power 
 to direct them? This would be a mys- 
 tery above all mysteries. On the 
 other hand, if the materialist admits 
 a primal intelligent power he must 
 finally yield to the demands of the 
 supernaturalist. 
 
 One day of bright sunshine should 
 suffice to dispel the gloom of atheism 
 from every reflecting mind. One 
 thoughtful look at nature should im- 
 press every reasoning mind with the 
 idea that the Power above us must 
 have thought of us when all things 
 were made — when the sun was made 
 to shine upon our earth and become 
 a storehouse of richest treasures for 
 the inhabitants of the earth, although 
 we cannot comprehend the process by 
 which these things were accomplished. 
 
 We may be as ignorant of the ori- 
 
AND MOTION. 63 
 
 gin of these things as the child in the 
 cradle is of the materials of which the 
 cradle is made. The child feels the 
 motion of the cradle, sees the mother 
 and hears the sound of her voice. 
 These are simple facts to the child; 
 but how the motion, sight and sounds 
 were produced it does not know. It 
 rests quietly in its little home until it 
 outgrows it. As soon as it can rea- 
 son from effect to cause every attempt 
 to teach the child that all these things 
 were matters of chance would be use- 
 less. 
 
 It knows that someone made the 
 cradle, that some hand moved it and 
 that someone produced the voice in 
 the song. 
 
 We see and hear, sights and sounds 
 and motions surround us in every di- 
 rection, and is it not reasonable to be- 
 lieve that an intelligent Power moves 
 above those strange phenomena in na- 
 ture. 
 
 "The heavens declare the glory of 
 God and the firmament showeth his 
 handiwork." 
 
 So marvelous are the operations of 
 nature and so uniform are the results 
 produced that among all nations there 
 
64 MIND, MATTER 
 
 has been a deep impression that above 
 these great working forces there must 
 be supernatural Power. 
 
 Modern science, with its material- 
 istic tendency, has made strong efforts 
 to reject the term supernatural, even 
 on subjects connected with theology. 
 
 Some of our theological teachers 
 have already yielded an assent to these 
 demands, and assert that all natural 
 phenomena must be regarded as the 
 result of natural causes; but it must 
 be remembered that this nature which 
 does such wonderful things is not a 
 mechanism that produced itself, and 
 put itself in motion. We admit that 
 when nature was ordained to do a 
 thing in a certain way it could do it in 
 no other way than along the line of its 
 own laws; but above these laws is the 
 Infinite Mind and Will. 
 
 The teachings of the materialistic 
 philosophy come in conflict with the 
 deepest convictions of the highest or- 
 der of intelligence when viewed in con- 
 nection with natural phenomena. It is 
 not the comprehension of mysteries 
 that theology demands, but a recogni- 
 tion of the Power that controls them. 
 The ancient patriarch Job was im- 
 
AND MOTION. 65 
 
 pressed with this when he said: "Lo 
 these are parts of his ways; but how 
 little a portion is heard of him? But 
 the thunder of his power who can un- 
 derstand?" 
 
 We know that the great center of 
 our solar system is the instrumental 
 cause of nearly all the physical ener- 
 gies that are manifested on our earth, 
 and yet the devout heart gives thanks 
 to the supreme ruler for the good 
 things that come to us through these 
 instrumentalities. 
 
 The wind that blows, from the gen- 
 tle breeze, up to the desolating tor- 
 nado, comes through the influence of 
 the sun, combined with electric cur- 
 rents. The water that is held in the 
 form of ice and snow is liberated by 
 sunshine, and winds its way through 
 small streams to rivers and from riv- 
 ers to oceans, from which it is car- 
 ried back again by the action of the 
 sun's rays and formed into rain clouds 
 to return to water the earth. This 
 process will continue while the sun 
 continues to shine. We may follow 
 the workings of this central power 
 through other forms of motion. The 
 fuel in the furnace changes the water 
 
66 MIND, MATTER 
 
 in the boiler into steam. The power 
 of the steam is transferred to. the driv- 
 ing wheel, and the cars move with 
 their freight and passengers over con- 
 tinents. The coal that burns in the 
 furnace had its origin in immense 
 vegetable growths in prehistoric ages, 
 and this was produced from sunshine. 
 
 This is also true of all kind of fuel 
 that grows on the earth, so that every- 
 thing that runs by steam on land and 
 water, and every spindle that whirls 
 in every mill or factory, has the power 
 of the sun behind it. The strength 
 and physical power to work in man 
 or animals may be traced to the same 
 source. 
 
 We do not fully understand the 
 vitalizing force of sunshine. These 
 rays of light have forced themselves 
 upon our attention by demonstrations 
 of their power on animal and vege- 
 table life. All plants seek the sun, 
 and perish if they cannot find it. It 
 stands at the head of all institutions in 
 the material world for the supply of 
 human wants and a contribution to 
 the happiness of all the dwellers on 
 this earth. 
 
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 HOW TO REMAIN VIGOROUS 
 IN OLD AGE. 
 
 My object is, not only to advance a 
 theory on what may be accomplished, 
 but to show what has been accom- 
 plished in extreme old age by a care- 
 ful attention to our mental and physi- 
 cal energies. In the foregoing pages 
 I have advanced some new theories 
 to which I invite the attention of the 
 learned men of our times. I ask no 
 favors from critics on account of old 
 age, for I could not have written this 
 in my younger years. I have care- 
 fully studied the subject of mental as 
 well as physical gymnastics, and have 
 found that both are important to keep 
 up the vigor of the body and the mind. 
 
 (See Appendix for explanations.) 
 
 My memory is now better than 
 when I was a young man. 
 
 In reference to a lecture delivered 
 in the First United Presbyterian 
 Church, in Chicago, in the month of 
 January, 1896, the Rev. W. T. Meloy, 
 D. D., the pastor, in his paper, "Our 
 Work," says: "Dr. Adam Miller's lec- 
 ture was a very pleasant and profitable 
 affair. He talked for an hour and a 
 
68 MIND, MATTER 
 
 half, and so interested all that heard 
 him that the time seemed but short. 
 The Doctor is only eight-six, and has 
 a memory that is marvelous. 
 
 These things are only mentioned as 
 an illustration of the truth of my the- 
 ory, of the importance of a proper care 
 for the preservation of life and health. 
 
 The recuperative powers of our 
 physical organization are constantly 
 at work to repair injuries and to carry 
 materials to the injured parts and to 
 supply the wastes that are constantly 
 going on. 
 
 As there is an infinite mind that 
 controls revolving bodies through in- 
 finite space, by the operation of nat- 
 ural laws, so this all-controlling mind 
 has provided materials for the support 
 of human life on this earth, and has 
 left it to the care of an intelligent race 
 to make a proper use of these mate- 
 rials; but among all the nicely ar- 
 ranged systems for doing important 
 work, the human body in connection 
 with the mind, have been the most 
 abused and neglected, of all active 
 forces in nature. 
 
 Whisky and tobacco, and an exces- 
 sive indulgence in unwholsome food 
 
AND MOTION. 69 
 
 and drink, and irregular hours of sleep 
 and rest, are making fearful havoc 
 with millions of the human race. 
 
 It does not require a knowledge of 
 the technicalities of the medical pro- 
 fession to take a proper care of the 
 body and the mind. Careful observa- 
 tion and experience are the best teach- 
 ers along this line. Here is where the 
 controlling mind over matter can be 
 illustrated. 
 
 Man's physical organization is a 
 part of nature, and is under the opera- 
 tion of natural laws, but these laws 
 are often interfered with by the deci- 
 sion of the human will. The human 
 stomach has a limited capacity for di- 
 gesting food necessary to supply the 
 wants of the body. When this is over- 
 loaded by excessive indulgence in eat- 
 ing, and then inflamed by alcoholic 
 liquors, the digestive process is inter- 
 fered with, and the nervous system 
 broken down by the excessive use of 
 tobacco, the structure finally breaks 
 down and the dweller in this temple is 
 forced to leave because it is no longer 
 fitted for habitation, and the MIND 
 determined it should be so. 
 
 Nature utters her voice of warning 
 
70 MIND, MATTER 
 
 to the violators of her laws. She has 
 also words of encouragement to those 
 who observe these laws. If we live 
 in harmony with nature's laws we pro- 
 mote the health of the body and the 
 mind. 
 
 NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL 
 LAWS. 
 
 Natural laws govern the natural 
 world, and spiritual laws govern the 
 spiritual world. There is a marked 
 line of distinction between these two 
 governing powers. In the harmony 
 of nature we see a law that governs 
 unconscious and inert matter, which 
 is absolutely free from any responsi- 
 bility to the governing powers, and 
 not subject to praise nor blame from 
 the law-giver. 
 
 In the spiritual kingdom there is a 
 knowledge of the nature and demands 
 of the law which addresses itself to 
 our spiritual nature, and implies voli- 
 tion, and consequently a responsi- 
 bility to the law-giver. There is no 
 similarity between v the operation of 
 natural and spiritual law. They have 
 nothing to do with each other. When 
 we look at nature in her harmonious 
 
 
AND MOTION. 71 
 
 movements; atoms blending with 
 atoms, then separating and reuniting 
 in different proportions and qualities 
 to form the endless varieties in quali- 
 ties and forms, such as we find in 
 matter; the most rational conclusion 
 we can arrive at is, that there must be 
 a primodial intelligent cause for these 
 movements of the different inert parts 
 of matter. 
 
 Whatever the molecular motion of 
 the different forms of matter may be, 
 in their different conditions of tem- 
 perature, no material substance, great 
 or small, has ever transferred itself, by 
 its own inherent power, from one place 
 to another. 
 
 There may be long lines of succes- 
 sive forces behind the final motion, 
 but these have their origin in an ulti- 
 mate and all controling power. 
 
 Materialistic science seeks this 
 power in an uncreated and eternal 
 energy, and all motion in the correla- 
 tion of forces, without allowing mind, 
 intelligence, or volition above these 
 forces. But the strange and contra- 
 dictory part of this theory is the ad- 
 mission that the energies on which 
 materialistic science depends are grad- 
 
72 MIND, MATTER 
 
 ually passing away, and it can find no 
 power in the universe by which they 
 can be restored to action. 
 
 Professor Henry Drummond, in his 
 "Natural Law in the Spiritual World/' 
 says : " With the gradual aggregation 
 of mass the energy of the universe has 
 been slowly disappearing, and this loss 
 of energy must go on until none re- 
 mains. There is, therefore, a point 
 in time when the energy of the uni- 
 verse must come to an end." The 
 theist — the believer in the superna- 
 tural may inquire: What then? 
 What will come after the final ending 
 of Nature's energies? On this sub- 
 ject Prof. Tyndall in his "Heat a Mode 
 of Motion," p. 124, says: "To create 
 or annihilate energy is as impossible 
 as to create or annihilate matter; and 
 all the phenomena of the material uni- 
 verse consists in transformations of 
 energy alone. The principle here 
 enunciated is called the law of the 
 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY." 
 Here are two positive statements made 
 by two distinguished writers, claim- 
 ing to be guided by the teachings of 
 science, making statements plainly 
 contradicting each other. How are 
 
AND MOTION. 73 
 
 we to understand these conflicting 
 statements? They cannot both be 
 right. They must be the result of 
 guessing. One guessed one thing in 
 the name of science and the oither 
 guessed in another direction, and both 
 claim progress in scientific discoveries, 
 and with all these different and ever 
 changing views they demand the 
 teachings shall be made to conform to 
 these ever changing views, which can- 
 not harmonize with themselves. 
 
 HOW THE MEMORY MAY BE 
 IMPROVED. 
 
 Without memory our lives would 
 be a dreary waste. The past would 
 be a blank. The present a fretful and 
 perplexing hour. Without a recol- 
 lection of the past we would find very 
 little encouragement in looking into 
 the future. With the storehouse of 
 our memories well filled with past 
 events, many pleasant scenes of our 
 past lives are brought in review before 
 us. Even our sufferings and disap- 
 pointments, when recollected in con- 
 nection with the relief that may have 
 come to us, and our deliverance from 
 
74 MIND, MATTER 
 
 the apparent accidents and dangers to 
 which we found ourselves exposed, all 
 have a tendency to encourage us for 
 the future. A recollection that the 
 same or similar help may come to us 
 in the future that sustained us in the 
 past will enable us to move forward 
 in the struggles of life and trust in 
 the same powers and forces for pro- 
 tection that sustained us in the past. 
 All persons are endowed with this fac- 
 ulty, but some in a much higher de- 
 gree than others. While jjthere are 
 natural endowments, and some have 
 much better memories than others, it 
 is undeniably true that by neglecting 
 to exercise and cultivate this faculty 
 it becomes enfeebled, w T hile, on the 
 other hand, by a proper course of 
 training and a systematic exercise, 
 the memory may be strengthened be- 
 yond the highest conceptions of those 
 who have not made suitable and sys- 
 tematic efforts in this direction. The 
 reason why many persons in advanced 
 years complain of a feeble memory 
 is an inattention to the common con- 
 cerns of life, and a want of effort to 
 treasure up the ordinary occurrences. 
 The idea of many that because they 
 
AND MOTION. 75 
 
 have lived a certain number of years 
 and arrived at an age where the men- 
 tal faculties generally become en- 
 feebled, has caused many to feel pre- 
 maturely old, and a general- loss of 
 bodily and mental vigor follows a de- 
 termination that it must be so, because 
 it is the natural order of things. Many 
 live and finally go down to their graves 
 without being aware of the wonderful 
 undeveloped powers they possessed, 
 which, if they had been properly cul- 
 tivated, would have contributed much 
 to the support of the physical organ- 
 ism There is such an intimate con- 
 nection between the body and the 
 mind that the lack of a proper treat- 
 ment of the one will unfavorably affect 
 the other. 
 
 We have gymnastics for physical 
 culture and find, from experience and 
 observation, that much is gained by 
 a proper exercise in muscular devel- 
 opment. 
 
 The memory is more susceptible to 
 improvement by proper exercise and 
 training, than the body. It is that 
 which possesses the body, and is de- 
 stined to survive its final dissolution 
 and decay. The dweller in the house 
 
76 MIND, MATTER 
 
 is of more importance than the house, 
 so the mind of man, of which memory 
 is a part, is of more importance than 
 the body in which it dwells. 
 
 We talk of a mind well stored with 
 knowledge, but we must not forget 
 that memory is the storekeeper, and 
 not only holds the key to the store- 
 house, but arranges all the shelves 
 and drawers and the different compart- 
 ments for storing away the treasure 
 accumulated by mental efforts. The 
 mind selects and brings in the treas- 
 ures, sometimes secures them by 
 hardest toil and perilous efforts. The 
 memory takes the treasures and stores 
 them away on different and appropri- 
 ate shelves, or in different drawers, 
 and so marks them and the place where 
 they are deposited, that they can be 
 looked at any time when they are 
 wanted. 
 
 What advantage would we have in 
 the accumulation of wealth in silver 
 and gold and diamonds and other pre- 
 cious things that make men rich, if we 
 brought them home and handed them 
 over to our steward or servant for safe 
 keeping, and he put them where they 
 never could be found? Suppose a 
 
AND MOTION. 77 
 
 man had millions on millions of treas- 
 ures hidden in this way that he nor no 
 one else could ever find; what advan- 
 tage would they be to him? None. 
 He might say I have lost them be- 
 cause I have not provided a proper 
 place to store them away. I had no 
 systematic arrangement in my treas- 
 ure house, and now they are forever 
 beyond my reach. In this way, from 
 a want of a properly arranged house 
 to store away the treasures of the mind 
 thousands of precious gems have been 
 lost. We may deeply regret the loss, 
 but this will not return to us the lost 
 treasures. The only safe and proper 
 way is to guard against these losses 
 in the future. Why have safes with 
 various compartments been invented, 
 with bars and bolts and locks, but to 
 protect our goods from the hands of 
 the thief and the robber, and also with 
 a view to have them at our command 
 at a moment's notice for our use? 
 
 The thief of time is watching us 
 every hour to snatch away the accum- 
 ulations for our mental toil. Much has 
 been taken from us and laid in the 
 grave of oblivion, but there are still 
 vast outlying fields where we can 
 
78 MIND, MATTER 
 
 gather more, and there are means pro- 
 vided to keep our gathered treasures 
 securely. 
 
 But someone advanced in years 
 may say, "I am too old to commence 
 building a storehouse to treasure up 
 my mental wares." You need not 
 build a new house. The old one is 
 good enough if you will only go to 
 work and make some repairs; and 
 when you begin this repairing process 
 you will be surprised to find how 
 easy the task will be. The sweeping 
 out of a few dark corners of the old 
 building will soon throw light over 
 other parts. 
 
 The opening of a few windows will 
 let in the light and make everything 
 cheerful about the old homestead 
 where the higher nature has long 
 dwelt in gloom and sadness because 
 the house was so much out of repair. 
 
 How sad it is to think that thou- 
 sands of persons, when they arrive at 
 the age of forty-five or fifty years, 
 think that their time of improvement 
 is past, and under this impression they 
 neglect mental culture, and with this 
 neglect the body soon becomes like 
 a house uncared for. 
 
AND MOTION. 79 
 
 We build the house we live in, that 
 is, our inner and higher nature to such 
 an extent controls organic matter so 
 as to build up and nourish those parts 
 most suited for mental activity, where 
 no other abnormal or disturbing agen- 
 cies interfere. This is especially true 
 in reference to the growth and devel- 
 opment of the brain, which is the seat 
 of mental power. Proper training not 
 only improves the mind but enlarges 
 the dwelling place where the mind re- 
 sides, acts and operates. 
 
 The bright, expressive and speak- 
 ing eye; the elevated forehead; the in- 
 telligent features ; all indicate an intel- 
 ligent working power or force super- 
 intending the material organization. 
 This working force in the intellectual 
 realm is under the control of the hu- 
 man will. If we determine that the 
 mind shall lie dormant and the mem- 
 ory shall become feeble and inactive 
 from a want of proper exercise, the in- 
 evitable results will follow. On the 
 other hand, if we determine that the 
 memory shall be retentive, and that 
 the shelves in our memory's store- 
 house shall keep our deposited treas- 
 ures, we have only to keep these 
 
80 MIND, MATTER 
 
 shelves and drawers in good order, 
 and have our deposits so marked and 
 labeled as to find them at any time 
 we may wish to use them. If we can 
 not immediately find the key to un- 
 lock our repository and find the gems 
 of thought, and all the beautiful and 
 useful things of the past, we must tie 
 a string to> the treasure and keep the 
 string in view, and when we get be- 
 wildered and confused we can follow 
 up the string or wind it up into a ball, 
 till it leads up to our repository, and 
 to the very drawer or shelf where our 
 treasures may be found. If we have 
 many shelves in memory's storehouse, 
 and a great variety of different things 
 stowed away, and these of different 
 qualities, and require many strings by 
 which to trace our way to our hidden 
 treasures, we can very easily attach 
 a mark or place a label on the end of 
 each string, each separate mark di- 
 recting us to the object we wish to 
 find. 
 
 There are many plain and simple 
 things that the mind may be placed 
 on, and that the memory can retain, 
 that may be well compared to a single 
 thread, and by association of one thing 
 
AND MOTION. 81 
 
 with another, either from a striking 
 similarity or dissimilarity, the thread 
 may be followed by winding it into a 
 ball or unwinding it from a ball. 
 
 As an illustration of following up 
 the thread, we will commence with a 
 white woolen thread. The wool leads 
 up to the sheep. The sheep is an em- 
 blem of innocence; here we come into 
 a large field, innocence, playfulness, 
 pastures, flocks, woolen garments, 
 cold weather, blankets, carpets, and 
 'ornamented parlors. Or, if we wish 
 to run in another direction, the thread 
 will lead us to mutton, to a good din- 
 ner; to the dinner party; to the names 
 of those present; to their conversa- 
 tion; and many other things we may 
 wish to bring in review before us. 
 
 A silk thread will lead us to the silk- 
 worm, the mulberry tree, the manu- 
 facturing establishment, the silk dress, 
 the beautiful lady that we saw wearing 
 it, her sparkling eye, her wit, her dia- 
 monds, her language, home, fortunes 
 or misfortunes, all from the end of a 
 small silk thread. 
 
 A cotton thread will lead us to the 
 cotton fields, the spinning and weav- 
 ing, the factory girls employed in the 
 
82 MIND, MATTER 
 
 mills, the great variety of cotton 
 goods, the sails of ships, a trip across 
 the ocean, the commerce of different 
 and distant countries, the ties that bind 
 nations in one common brotherhood. 
 
 A linen thread will conduct us back 
 to the field where flax grows, to the 
 spinning and weaving of linen, to Irish 
 linen, to the thousands of toilers who 
 produce the beautiful fabric, to the 
 weaver of the linen, to the rags of 
 worn out garments, to the paper mill 
 that manufactures the rags to paper, 
 to the beautiful white letter paper on 
 which our correspondence to loved 
 ones may be written. 
 
 A hemp string leads to the fields, 
 the rope-walks where it is manufac- 
 tured into! cords and ropes, to the 
 rigging of a ship, hauling and direct- 
 ing the sails, carrying the commerce 
 of the world to. their destined ports. 
 
 A red, or scarlet thread, will lead us 
 to something fiery or intense, ardent, 
 high tempered, wars and bloodshed, 
 or such things as will incite or inflame 
 the passions. 
 
 A blue thread will lead one's mind 
 up to the pale blue sky, in which the 
 clouds are floating and behind which 
 
AND MOTION. 83 
 
 the stars and planets appear to us to 
 be pursuing their nightly march; we 
 think of distance and magnitude, of 
 time measured off by their revolu- 
 tions, and in bewildering amazement 
 we are led to the infinite Power that 
 controls and directs all things from an 
 infinite purpose. 
 
 A white thread is the emblem of in- 
 nocence and purity; it leads us to the 
 lily of the valley, flourishing near by 
 the Rose of Sharon. This will bring 
 to the mind a train of beautiful and 
 lovely things. How delightful in the 
 stillness of the night to take hold of 
 the beautiful white thread and begin 
 to wind it up into a ball or follow ft 
 back along the path we have traveled 
 until we get back to the days of youth 
 and childhood, and have the innocent 
 amusements of our younger years 
 pass in review before us. 
 
 The tear of sorrow may start from 
 the eye at the recollection of friends 
 long since gone from us, but even this 
 opening of the fountains of affection 
 may bring relief in the hour of afflic- 
 tion. 
 
 A black thread may lead us into the 
 dark, but darkness is not always dis- 
 
84 MIND, MATTER 
 
 mal. It is necessary for us as well as 
 light. Long winter evenings bring us 
 many comforts that we could not have 
 under the rays of the burning sun. 
 It is true we might travel along the 
 line of a dark thread into dismal and 
 gloomy regions, but we should always 
 prefer to; go along the line of the pleas- 
 ant and the beautiful, to feed the mem- 
 ory on that which will give us higher 
 views of our lives and destinies. 
 
 The questions may arise in the 
 minds of some, "What will be the ad- 
 vantage of all this?" "What can I do 
 without an active memory to follow 
 up these different threads?" We can 
 easily see where the advantage of such 
 a mental exercise is found. It is an 
 effort to build up and strengthen the 
 memory, or prepare the different 
 shelves in this storehouse for reposi- 
 tories of our mental wares. Instead 
 of leaving the mind a vacant blank 
 and tossing restless upon our beds in 
 the stillness of the night, we may start 
 the wheels of memory running back- 
 ward over the past, and stop at the 
 different way stations with such de- 
 light and pleasure that we will soon 
 be lulled to sleep, perchance to dream 
 
AND MOTION. 85 
 
 some pleasant dreams, and awake with 
 better opinions of life than when our 
 minds were blank and the shelves of 
 our memories' storehouses in a di- 
 lapitated condition. 
 
 Now we would advise anyone in 
 lonely hours to take hold of the end of 
 a string, one of those we have referred 
 to; the white for instance, and start 
 back in a contemplative mood and 
 stop to linger awhile, around every 
 point of innocence, beauty and purity. 
 Then let it stretch out into the future. 
 Follow it up and on until it reaches 
 within the very gates of the celestial 
 city, or, if you do. not wish to go quite 
 so far just now, then take another 
 thread and follow it along the line of 
 which it is emblematical. Do not 
 hasten too fast from one point to an- 
 other. When you find some event 
 in your past life, linger around it as 
 long as pleasant memories continue to 
 come up, in groups or single, and then 
 pass on to other points; and in this 
 way the scenes of the past will come 
 up in succession as old associates that 
 had appeared lost to you, and entirely 
 faded from your memory. To those 
 who have never made an effort to recol- 
 
8G MIND, MATTER 
 
 lect the scenes of the past by such as- 
 sociations it will be surprising to find 
 the mind pictures like beautiful pano- 
 ramas pass in review before them. 
 
 The memory is like the blacksmith's 
 arm, which has grown strong from us- 
 ing it. There is no faculty of the hu- 
 man mind so susceptible of improve- 
 ment as the memory, and none so 
 much neglected. 
 
 Some persons are naturally endowed 
 with good memories, while others are 
 deficient, and must depend on culture 
 for improvement. 
 
 Before letters were invented for 
 the purpose of recording the events of 
 life and our historic narratives, the 
 memory must have been much stronger 
 than it is now. The transactions 
 and constantly recurring events of life 
 had to be carried in the memory in- 
 stead of recorded in books. 
 
 Many of the historical narratives 
 now found in books of history, both 
 sacred and profane, must have been 
 preserved in the storehouse of mem- 
 ory for ages before they were perma- 
 nently recorded in books now found 
 in our libraries. 
 
 There are many marvelous instances 
 
AND MOTION. 
 
 on record of extraordinary memories 
 among the ancients. It would be out 
 of place here to enter into a detailed 
 account of the different prodigies of 
 memory. Speeches were committed 
 from once having been heard, lectures, 
 poems, and the most difficult prob- 
 lems the human mind can grapple 
 with, have been retained in the mem- 
 ory from having only once heard them 
 repeated. But these are rare instances, 
 and not a common inheritance of man- 
 kind. The amount of memory we 
 have is a natural endowment, or a 
 working capital on which we can im- 
 prove to a marvelous extent. With 
 every advancement we make we in- 
 crease our stock in trade, and add to 
 our wealth which no thief can steal, 
 and no wreck of earthly fortune can 
 destroy. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The object of the preceding pages 
 is, to illustrate some of the great vital 
 forces of nature, and their relation to 
 the Supreme Power, and their appli- 
 cation to the needs of the human race. 
 This has led me to advance some new 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 views on the subject of solar radiation 
 and electricity. 
 
 I will now add a few plain directions 
 to those who* desire long life and good 
 health in old age. 
 
 If persons would be more careful 
 in their habits of living, especially in 
 eating and drinking and proper exer- 
 cise, our physical organism would 
 perform its functions with a more uni- 
 form regularity; and as there is such 
 a close relation between the mind 
 and the body, our mental powers 
 would also' be greatly increased. 
 
 As soon as persons come to the 
 conclusion that any disease brought 
 on by exposure, or irregular habits of 
 living, can soon be cured by the ad- 
 vertised medicines, we may take it for 
 granted that such persons are on the 
 way of a speedy breaking down. Re- 
 peated attacks brought on by needless 
 exposure will soon prostrate the sys- 
 tem. Relief may be obtained from 
 remedies for a time, but by this process 
 the years will be shortened, and much 
 suffering will be the result. Here again 
 the mind controls the body, and by a 
 wrong direction, the body soon falls 
 a victim to that controlling and direct- 
 ing thing called the human will. 
 
APPENDIX. 89 
 
 In addition to the matters above 
 referred to, there are others things, 
 equally important to good health, and 
 long life. 
 
 This is a moving world, although it 
 cannot be considered a self-acting 
 world. Human beings are both mov- 
 ing and self-acting, by a decision of the 
 will. Action within proper bounds 
 promotes health, while the want of ac- 
 tion causes disease. 
 
 There is such an intimate relation 
 between the nervous, muscular and 
 vascular systems, and the cellular tis- 
 sues, that a disturbance in any one of 
 these affects the others. 
 
 If each of these could be separated 
 from the others, and stand before us, 
 we would have a complete representa- 
 tion of a human being in all its parts 
 and forms. All are dependent upon 
 the muscular structure for support 
 and sustenance. Anything that has a 
 tendency to produce a healthy condi- 
 tion of the muscular system will pro- 
 mote a normal and healthy action in 
 the other departments of the human 
 body. 
 
 Being fully aware of these facts, I 
 was induced to commence experi- 
 
90 APPENDIX. 
 
 ments upon myself. Such was my suc- 
 cess in gaining strength and firmness 
 in my muscles, that I concluded to 
 formulate a regular system of mus- 
 cular flexion in accordance with ana- 
 tomical and physiological laws. 
 
 The result of this has been a perfect 
 surprise to me. 
 
 DIRECTIONS FOR MUSCULAR 
 FLEXION. 
 
 I am the first one, so far as I know, 
 to introduce this system of muscular 
 flexion for health and strength, with- 
 out putting an undue strain upon 
 them, as in the ordinary gymnastic 
 exercises. 
 
 The process is so plain and easy 
 that anyone can engage in it without 
 the loss of time or expensive appar- 
 atus. 
 
 The best position is lying on your 
 back in bed or on a lounge. This is 
 not a mere random jerking and slash- 
 ing of the muscles, but a regular sys- 
 tematic movement to gain strength, 
 without the possibility of exhaustion. 
 If you would have the full benefit of 
 this new system of muscular flexion, 
 
APPENDIX. 91 
 
 you must carefully follow the instruc- 
 tions here laid down. 
 
 First, stretch yourself out at full 
 length and press your limbs firmly 
 down on the bed and extend your toes 
 out as far as possible. You will now 
 find the muscles of your limbs above 
 the knees quite rigid. Hold this posi- 
 tion a few seconds, then draw up the 
 feet as far as possible, still pressing 
 the heels and limbs firmly on the bed. 
 Now move the feet regularly out and 
 back a short time; the muscles will 
 then in turn be rigid and relaxed. 
 
 From one to two minutes should be 
 spent in flexing the muscles in each 
 position. Next cross your limbs so 
 that the outside of your left foot rests 
 against the outside of your right foot, 
 and continue the same movement as 
 before, pushing out and drawing back 
 the feet, and at the same time draw up 
 and relax the muscles of the thigh and 
 hips in quick succession. Frequently 
 change this position from right to left, 
 and left to right. 
 
 By practice the muscles of the en- 
 tire system can be put in motion by 
 pushing down one side and drawing 
 up the other in succession. 
 
92 APPENDIX. 
 
 The muscles of the arms and should- 
 ers are flexed by throwing them out 
 and drawing them in. 
 
 The muscles of the chest by deep 
 respiration, thus expanding and con- 
 tracting them alternately. 
 
 When the soothing and quieting, 
 as well as the invigorating effects are 
 once realized, it becomes a pleasurable 
 task as well as a means of gaining 
 strength to the entire system. 
 
 With persons debilitated by disease 
 or old age, we commence with gentle 
 and careful movements at first, and 
 increase in activity gradually as the 
 strength increases. 
 
 No matter how nervous you may be 
 when you go to bed for a night's rest, 
 before you get through with the first 
 round of flexion you will go to sleep 
 and rest quietly. 
 
 ADVANTAGES OF SYSTEMATIC 
 MUSCULAR FLEXION. 
 
 One of the first indications of old age 
 is the weakening of muscular power. 
 It becomes very tiresome for an aged 
 person to walk a long distance. There 
 is a feeling of pressure on the back, 
 
APPENDIX. 93 
 
 and especially over the shoulders. 
 This causes a drooping of the should- 
 ers, and a bending down of the body, 
 as if laboring under a heavy burden. 
 This is soon followed by an enfeebled 
 condition of the arms and lower limbs. 
 The person who walked with an elastic 
 step and took hold of things with a 
 steady and strong arm, now walks with 
 slow and heavy step, bowed down un- 
 der the infirmity of advanced years. 
 
 Some even feel symptoms of these 
 changes soon after they have passed 
 their fiftieth year. It is a sad reflec- 
 tion to think that many will yield to 
 this state of things in comparatively 
 early life without a proper effort to 
 rescue themselves from what they 
 consider their inevitable doom. Ex- 
 periments upon myself warrant me in 
 saying that there is hope and help for 
 those who imagine themselves pre- 
 maturely breaking down. The dis- 
 covery of this systematic process of 
 muscular flexion has given me more 
 strength than I had some years ago. 
 There is a great difference between a 
 proper exercise of the muscles for 
 strength and health by systematic 
 flexion, and the ordinary methods re- 
 
94 APPENDIX. 
 
 sorted to with "dumb bells" or pulling, 
 pushing or lifting with "EXERCISE" 
 for public or "home gymnasiums." 
 
 The strain on the muscles in all 
 these exercises produces exhaustion 
 of the muscular structure which has a 
 depressing effect on the nerves, and 
 there are many who have commenced 
 these exercises with high expectations 
 and finally abandoned them from an 
 experience of the fact that the strength 
 gained, in many cases, is not a suffi- 
 cient compensation for the energy lost 
 in these gymnastic "exercises." 
 
 Our aim is to introduce the invalid 
 to a new method of physical culture, 
 and to show how those in the ordinary 
 enjoyment of health may increase 
 their strength and retain it to a ripe old 
 age. 
 
 Animal electricity is increased by 
 proper muscular action. A writer in 
 the American Cyclopaedia says, "It is 
 established beyond doubt that a pro- 
 duction of electricity is constantly go- 
 ing on in all tissues of the living ani- 
 mal economy. The amount of elec- 
 tricity generated in the muscles must 
 be exceedingly great." This is evi- 
 dently increased by a proper course 
 of muscular exercise. 
 
APPENDIX. 95 
 
 It is a singular fact that on a cold 
 day, in a dry atmosphere, I can evolve 
 electricity enough from the end of my 
 fingers of my right hand in a few 
 seconds sufficiently strong to run my 
 little toy wagon 10 inches long and 7 
 inches wide, up grade over my desk, 
 or to hold the largest apple you can 
 bring to me, suspended in the air. Sir 
 Isaac Newton saw an apple fall and 
 got an idea about gravitation. I can 
 show you an apple that will not fall, 
 and also give you an idea of locomo- 
 tion, and show you how this power 
 may be increased in extreme old age. 
 The knife I carry in my pocket has 
 become a strong magnet. It must 
 have received the magnetism from my 
 body. The human form and especi- 
 ally the expression of the human face 
 is the most marvelous exhibition of 
 organic life ever seen on this earth, 
 and it is our duty to protect and keep 
 it in a good condition as long as pos- 
 sible. 
 
 When the) advancing years draw 
 their unwelcome lines across the face 
 it is our duty to drive them away just 
 as much as to keep the dust from our 
 natural houses. I will tell how this 
 
96 APPENDIX. 
 
 can be done. Go to your drug store 
 and get 5 grains of corrosive sub- 
 limate, 5 grains of muriate of ammonia 
 and dissolve': these in a half ounce 
 of pure alcohol. Put this in an 8-ounce 
 bottle full of pure water and add 5 
 grains of iodide of potassa. This must 
 be used as follows: Moisten the ends 
 of your fingers with this wash and 
 strike with considerable force on the 
 part of the face where the wrinkles 
 appear. This will produce a healthy 
 action on the skin and soon remove 
 the wrinkles. Apply only a small 
 quantity, and do not use it as a com- 
 mon face wash. 
 
 If unsightly warts disfigure your 
 face and hands, get a |-ounce vial of 
 nitro muriatic acid with a glass stopper 
 and apply carefully to the center of the 
 wart twice a day until it forms into a 
 black scab, then remove it and the 
 place will close up and leave no scar. 
 
 In this way keep away deformities 
 and keep cheerful and happy to an 
 extreme old age. 
 
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