The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-02-01
ELECTRIC THEORY OF CREATION. :"
A Paper Read by Miss Lizzie Evans at the
Farmers Institute held In Yale, on
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1901.

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1901.
1t is said that "True science differs
from everyday knowledge mainly in
the precision of its data and differences,
and the scientific mind is held rigidly
in check and made to bow only before
proven facts" While this is true, it is
also true that science with all its exact
ness is full of theories not yet proven.
Since Lord KELVIN, the Newton of
our age, has said that the attraction of
gravitation and the vortex theory are
but dreams" because unproven; aud
LeibnitZ charges the great Newton
with introducing the invisible and &C.
cult principle into science, may we not
be permitted to dream" also? Oft
times these day dreams by which men
reason from what they know to what
they do not know, prove to be wonder
full realities.
Such were the dreams of Columbus,
Keplan, Gallilio, Harvey and Edison.
Franklin dreamed that with his kite he
could draw the lightning from the
skies, and since then electricity has
been the servant and plaything of
mans ingenuity.
Morse made it convey instantly liv-
ing thoughts over the continents, and
Field under the sea. Watt saw the
steam toss the lid from tea-kettle of
boiling water and dreamed of the pow
er of steam, and soon swift railway
trains traversed the land, and fleet
steamers ploughed the ocean.
If man by his inventive genius can
utilize that mysterious potential entity
known as electricity, and run it along
wire no larger than a child's finger
miles from where it is generated and
make it exert from one to two hundred
horsepower, and carry the burdens of
commerce, what cannot Omnipotence
accomplish through his great electric
generators. the suns, and the electric
substance stored in all nature?
BY means of this wonderful potential
substance subject to his will as the law
of nature, he creates and preserves the
existence and integrity of the universe.
What but this mystic force could cause
the earth to shoot through space at the
rate of a million miles and revolve on
its axis at speed of thousand miles
an hour; what but this electric attrac-
ton holds the earth together and pre-
vents it from flying to pieces, or nova
BILE things on its surface from flying
off into space? There is no other force
in nature but electricity could work
these stupendous miracles? And God
works through the forces of nature.
In this age inquiry and research are
both persistent and aggressive. From
Arctic to Antarctic oceans men seek
to snatch from unwilling nature the
hidden secrets of her wonderful birth.
Than houa nNrnlnrnd frnpinnl fnrQcfC
scorching deserts, frozen seas, and the
trackless wastes of icy waters, penetra-
ting where the restless foot of man
never before trod. They have explored
the vast realm of knowledge and
brought countless trophies to the tenn
pie of science. The century now closed
has reached out and grasped marvellous
and infinite mysteries.
Not alone in the material world is
this true, but the search-light of scien-
tific inquiry is penetrating soul life and
bringing out the spiritual entities of
existence. It has been well said "The
impossible of to-day becomes the posi-
bic and approved of tomorrow" The
fairy tale of yesterday is the scientific
discovery of to-day.
Has matter intelligence? Our emf
nent Mr.. Edison claims that the atoms
have intelligence. If this be true, then
spirit or soul is senseless and unneces-
sary, and only the material exists, and
spirit is delusion and myth. If there
is intelligence in the atoms of our bod
les, then there must be intelligence in
the air we breath, the water we drink
and the food we eat.
Even Mr.. Edison has not been able
to demonstrate his statement. But we
do not agree with him. Matter cannot
have intelligence and reason, for these
are spiritual manifestations. Atoms
have affinities and selections, but we
claim they are controlled by the electric
currents.
According to Mr.. Edison's theory the
larger the animal the greater the INTEL
igence, the elephant should be far more
intelligent than Edison himself. There
is no unfolding of bud or blossom, tree
or shrub without the coming and going
of electric sunlight.
Atoms seek their affinities through
the medium of electricity. Material
and mental forces meet together on
the plane of human consciousness.
AS man is a magnetic electric body,
the magnetic currents carry light to the
eye, sound to the ear, heat to the body,
and will and motive power from mind
to the body. 1t is an acknowledged fact
by many anatomists of to-day that
there are many small batteries, or stor-
ed up electricity in the body.
Physicians now recognize the impor-
lance of electricity to the health and
strength of the body, and all kinds of
electrical continuance are now used to
restore health. Many physicians by
manipulation supply the electricity
needed from their own bodies to cure
the diseases of their patients.
Electricity has solved many of the
great problems of human life. 1t has
produced the telegraph, the telephone.
the photograph, the electric light, the
dynamo, the electric motor and rail
way. The more we study into electrical
phenomena the more strongly do we
believe that anything in the universe
can be reduced to vibration.
Experiments at the government agri-
cultural station in Amherst, Massachu-
sets, indicate that electricity is soon TO
do much for the farmer. The idea that
electric currents introduced beneath
growing crops would materially hasten
their growth, increase quantity and i'm