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Speaker 1: Things as they are. Note that the word universe is

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derived from the Latin word unus, meaning one, and versor,

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meaning to turn, the combined word meaning literally one that

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turns or moves. The Latin words indicate a close meaning, namely,

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one thing in motion, turning its several aspects and assuming

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many changes of appearance. The writer does not intend touching

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upon theories of the origin of the universe, nor of

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its purpose, or of any design in its production or management,

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nor of its possible or probable end. These questions do

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not belong to our subject. And then again, as was

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said in the last chapter, speculation regarding it is devoid

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of results and leads one to quicksands and bogs of

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mental reasoning from which it is difficult to extract oneself.

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The answer to the riddle of the universe rest in

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the infinite, but it is different with the case of

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the manifested universe that is evidenced by our senses. Science

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is a different thing from metaphysics, and its process and

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mode of work are along different lines, and much knowledge

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of things may be obtained from a consideration of it,

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remembering always that its knowledge is confined to things and

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not to that which is back of things, and so

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let us consider the universe of things. Material science has

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held that the universe is composed of two principles, one matter,

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two energy or force. Some hold that these two principles

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really are aspects of the same thing, and that there

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is really but one principle, one aspect of which is shape, form,

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et cetera, and called matter, the other equality manifesting in motion,

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which quality is called force. Others, the most radical, hold

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that there is nothing but matter, and that force and

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energy is but a quality or power inherent in matter.

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Others hold that force is the real thing, and matter

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but a form of force. All branches hold to the

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idea that matter and energy are always found together and

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cannot be thought of separately. Matter and force are held

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to be eternal and infinite. It following that there can

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be no addition to or subtraction from either, All apparent

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loss and gain, creation and destruction being but change of

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form or mode. God is declared unnecessary, and the universe

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is held to operate according to certain laws of matter

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or force, either or both, which are unchangeable and immutable,

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eternal and always valid. Mind and thought are held to

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be products of properties of matter or force one or

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both secreted, evolved, or produced in the brain. The soul

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is relegated to the waist heap and discarded as useless.

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In the new philosophy, Molleshot said thought is a motion

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of matter, and Hulbeck that matter enjoys the power of thinking.

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Natural laws are held to be sufficient for the explanation

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of all phenomena, although ignoring the fact that the reason

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has never before formed the conception of a law without thinking,

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it necessary to think of a law maker or a

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power to enforce and administer the law. However, the philosophers

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hold that it is no more difficult to think of

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such a law than to try to form an idea

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of space or eternity, both of which are unthinkable to

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the human reason, but both of which are admitted as

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self evident facts. But notwithstanding this somewhat crude and raw reasoning,

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materi ferial science has accomplished a wonderful work in the world,

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and has brought to light facts of inestimable value to

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man and mastering the material world and informing correct ideas

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of the solution of material difficulties. The facts of material

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science enables the world to cheerfully overlook its theories, and

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even the theories are rapidly undergoing a change. And as

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we have stated, some of the most advanced scientists are

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rapidly reaching the position of the occultists and mystics, bringing

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with them a mass of facts to back them up,

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to exhibit to the occultists who dealt with principles rather

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than with details or material facts, so far as fundamental

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theories were concerned. Each is boring his way through the

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mountain tunnel of the unknown, and both will meet in

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the center, their lines meeting each other without a variation.

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But the occultist will call the tunnel center mind, and

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the scientists will call it matter. But both will be

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speak of the same thing, and the causer of the

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mountain will probably know that they both are right. But

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we are speaking of the new school of advanced material

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science now, not of the old conservative all is matter

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people who have been left behind. The new school speaks

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of substance now instead of matter, and ascribes to substance

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the properties of matter, energy, and something that they will

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call sensation, by which they mean mind in a crude form,

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and from which they say mind and soul evolved. This

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new school of scientists are very different from their predecessors.

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They are less hide bound and far from being so cockture.

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They are seeing matter melting into energy and giving signs

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of sensation, and they are beginning to feel that, after all,

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there must be a thing in itself that is the

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real basis of or real thing in substance. There is

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heard very little among them about dead matter, blind force,

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or the mechanical theory of life. Life in the universe,

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instead of it being a big machine operated under mechanical laws,

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with life as the steam, the universe is beginning to

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be regarded as somehow filled with life, and science is

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finding new examples of life in unexpected quarters, and the

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dead matter area is being narrowed. Men who have followed

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the advances made by recent science are holding their breaths

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in awe and earnest expectation, and those who are pushing

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the inquiries and investigations to the fullest extent are showing

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by their eager faces and trembling hands that they feel

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that they are very close to the borderline separating the

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old materialism from a new science that will give thought

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and philosophy a new impetus and a new platform. Such

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men are feeling that they are seeing the old matter

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melting away into something else. The old theories are falling

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apart under the light of new discoveries, and these men

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feel that they are penetrating a new and hitherto unexplored

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region of the unknown. May success be theirs, for they

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are now on the right road to truth. In the

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following chapters, we shall see frequent references to science, and

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when we use the word we shall know it means

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this new school of scientists rather than the older school

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that is now being superseded. There is no conflict between

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true occultism and true science, notwithstanding their directly opposite theories

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and ideals. They are merely looking at the truth from

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different viewpoints, at different sides of the same shield. A

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better day is coming when they shall work together instead

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of in opposition. There should be no partisanship in the

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search for truth. Things have worked out this way. Occultism

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would enunciate a theory a principle, but would not attempt

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to prove it by material facts, for it had not

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gathered the facts, having found the principle within the mind

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rather than without. Then, after laughing at the occult theory

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or principle, science would search diligently for material facts to

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prove an opposite theory, and in doing so would unearth

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new facts that would support the occultist contention. Then science

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would discard its old theory, that is, the younger men

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would the old ones never and proceed to proclaim a

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new theory or principle under a new name and backed

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up with a mass of facts and experiments that would

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create a new school with many enthusiastic followers. The old

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claim of the occultist would then be forgotten, or else

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go unrecognized under its old name, or disguised by the

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fantastic and bizarre coverings which some so called occultist had

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draped around the original truth. But so long as truth

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is being uncovered, what matters it who does the work,

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or by what name he calls his school. The movement

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is ever forward and upward. What matter the banner under

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which the armies move. In this book, the writer will

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advance a very different theory of the universe of all

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things from that of modern science, although he feels that

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his theory may easily be reconciled with the most advanced

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views of that school. In the first place, as he

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has stated in the first chapter. He does not hold

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that the universe as we know it is self sufficient,

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but he recognizes a something back of all phenomena and appearances,

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which something he calls the infinite. And he differs very

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materially from the views of those who claim that mind

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is but a property or quality, or something proceeding from

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matter or force, or matter force or force matter, according

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to the views of the respected schools. He takes an

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entirely different and opposite position. He holds that all that

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we call matter or substance, and mind as we know it,

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are but aspects of something infinitely higher, and which may

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be called the cosmic mind. He holds that what we

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call mind is but a partial manifestation of the cosmic mind,

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and that substance or matter is but a cruder or

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growth of that which we call mind, and which has

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been manifested in order to give mind a body through

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which to operate. But this view he merely states in passing,

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for he makes no attempt to demonstrate or prove the same,

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his idea being that it forms a different part of

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the general subject than the phase of dynamic thought to

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the consideration of which this book is devoted. He also

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differs very materially from the materialistic school in his conception

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of force or energy. Instead of regarding force as a

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distinct principle and as something of which mind is but

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a form, he walks boldly out into the arena of

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scientific thought, and, throwing down his gauntlet, proclaims his theory

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that there is no such thing as force apart from

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life and mind. All force and energy is the product

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of life and mind. All force, energy and motion result

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from vital mental action. All force, energy and motion is

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vital mental force, energy, and motion. The mind, abiding in

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and permeating all substance, not only has the power to think,

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but also the power to act and to manifest force

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and energy, which are its inherent and essential properties. He

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also takes the position that mind is in and about

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and around everything, and that everything is alive in thinking,

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and that there is no such things as dead matter

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or blind force, but that all substance, even to the

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tiniest particle, is permeated with life and mind, and that

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all force and motion is caused and manifested by mind.

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He holds that all forms of force, energy, and motion

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from the attraction of the particles of matter and their

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movements in response. There too, up to the attraction of

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gravitation and the response of the worlds and suns and

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stars and planets, there too are forms of mental energy

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and force and action, and that from the tiniest atom

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or particle to the greatest sun, all obey this great

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action of mind, this great force of mind, this great

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energy of mind, this great power of mind. And upon

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this rock, this rock of truth, he believes it to be.

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He takes his stand and announces his belief, and bids

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all comers take notice of what he believes to be

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a germ thought that will grow, develop an increase, so

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that it will eventually permeate all scientific thought as the

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years roll along. He calls this theory the theory of

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dynamic thought.