_The Universe a Vast Electric Organism_
BY GEORGE WOODWARD WARDER
AUTHOR OF "Invisible Light, or the Electric Theory of Creation," "The Cities of the Sun," Etc., Etc.
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_The universe is a vast electric machine or organism creating its own cosmic force, lighting and heating itself from its own latent electric fires, and bound together by invisible electric bands pulling and guiding with the swiftness of lightning, and the power and wisdom of Omnipotence._--From "THE CITIES OF THE SUN."
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY _Publishers_ New York
COPYRIGHT, 1903 BY GEORGE WOODWARD WARDER _Issued February, 1904_
The Universe a Vast Electric Organism
CONTENTS
I. The Universe Is a Vast Electric Organism, 11
II. Electricity Produces All the Phenomena of Nature, 29
III. Electrical Creation, Briefly Stated. It Seems to Solve the Riddle of the Universe, 49
IV. Electrical Creation More Fully Stated Confirms Scientific Evolution, 54
V. Man Is a Soul Clad in Air, a Spirit in an Electric Organism, 76
VI. All Light, Heat and Life Evolved Only in the Atmosphere of Suns and Planets, 90
VII. Electrical Derangement of the Bodily Organism Produce Sickness and Death, 102
VIII. Recent Electric Discoveries and Appliances, Wireless Telegraphy, etc., 112
IX. Present Science Is in a Dubious and Chaotic Condition, 133
X. Electrical Creation Explains Natural Philosophy, 156
XI. Science and Philosophy Sustain the Religious Concept, 173
XII. Human Reason and the Universe Are Books of God, as Well as the Bible, 194
XIII. Love is the Electric Law of Life: All That Live Must Come From Loving, 213
XIV. Jacob's Ladder Is the Electric Pathway Between Suns and Planets, 230
XV. This Electric Universe is Self-sustaining and Eternal, 246
XVI. Are all Suns and Worlds Inhabited? 265
XVII. The Electrical Theory of Creation Will Save Modern Science from Pantheism, 279
PREFACE
This volume is intended to further elucidate my theories of electrical creation, to cover some points lightly touched upon in my previous books; also to bring forward to date the most recent scientific facts and discoveries tending to show that the universe is a vast electric machine or organism.
This is the electrical age of the world, the age of magnetic marvels and electrical wonders. The people of this generation have witnessed the most astounding development of electrical machinery, appliances and utilities. In every department of effort human genius has called forth this invisible, mysterious magician, electricity, to work the miracles of Omnipotence.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder
- 2: Woven by electric energy from invisible atoms
- 3: It shook the ether into nebula
- 4: This invisible electrical energy
- 5: I contend that the universe is a vast electric organism
- 6: This earth magnet drew countless meteors
- 7: Which is 460 degrees colder than ice
- 8: Is produced by electric currents
- 9: As impalpable as the viewless air
- 10: Omnipotent stream of electric life giving power
- 11: Like the brushes on an electric dynamo
- 12: Being the varied manifestations of electric energy
- 13: Atoms seek their electric affinities
- 14: Plants are able to decompose carbonic acid
- 15: When the electro magnetic origin of light
- 16: Develops by nutrition and respiration
- 17: And the electricity that propels
- 18: Mass energy and molecular energy is the same
- 19: Thomson in Electricity and Magnetism
- 20: Luminous and thermal represented in the spectrum
- 21: Through measureless amplitudes of space and time
- 22: Constituting them working electro magnets
- 23: Saturates such planetary bodies with electric energy
- 24: Electricity belongs to the atomic forces
- 25: Had to pass through the fluidic state
- 26: Says the author of Planetary Evolution
- 27: The realm of spirit and electricity
- 28: Throwing out new cell structures
- 29: As an immense electrical reservoir battery
- 30: Man came as a spiritual creation
- 31: The vegetable has the elements of the mineral
- 32: The recent discovery of a man's skull at Lansing
- 33: With single protoplasmic cells
- 34: You can bring about parthenogenesis only by positive ions
- 35: While the chloride is electro negative
- 36: Atoms and Their Electric Charges
- 37: Of infinite ether and eternal atoms
- 38: He is the offspring of Omnipotence
- 39: Who nobly does must nobly think
- 40: The mind controls the electricity of the brain
- 41: The numbness steadily ascended
- 42: Or organic aggregation of atoms
- 43: And continually renewing the molecules of our heart
- 44: Then the age of Methuselah may come again in longevity
- 45: Heat and life in its own electric environment
- 46: All the astronomers admit the truth of Prof
- 47: And many other scientists agreed with him
- 48: These are two average tests of mathematical calculations
- 49: I would eat that missionary and his hymnbook too
- 50: Electrons or Thomson corpuscles
- 51: The mysterious negative corpuscles
- 52: Marconi says There are thirty five land stations
- 53: It is a constituent of pitchblende
- 54: By moving the electrodes about
- 55: 000 incandescent lamps per day
- 56: No safe airship can ever be built
- 57: The heat of the sun was in its photosphere
- 58: As if nature knew anything about astronomy
- 59: Or at least not primary elements at all
- 60: The scientists are on an island of doubt
- 61: Simon Newcomb says it has the density of metal
- 62: These phenomena are being produced by electricity
- 63: Which seems to refute the nebular hypothesis
- 64: This spiral shape of the earth's orbit
- 65: Each receives the positive electricity from the sun
- 66: This splendid editorial states facts graphically and truly
- 67: The so called eruption of Mont Pelee was purely electrical
- 68: Philosophy is completely unified knowledge
- 69: But designated it the unknowable
- 70: Which he calls the imperceptible
- 71: Tends to its dissolution by electric repulsion
- 72: The only answer is a cohesive force
- 73: And flounder in the miry bogs of agnosticism
- 74: And what is actual is rational
- 75: Death and oblivion are things that mock
- 76: In the unfading light of the eternal stars
- 77: This principle may give the electric form immortality
- 78: Says the author of Planetary Evolution
- 79: Feeling volition are forms of psychical energy
- 80: And its fundamental postulate is God is a Spirit
- 81: As the sun gleams from atom to atom
- 82: His daffodil meadows where the Eidola
- 83: Discard the tyrannous realism of ambiguous metaphors
- 84: To instruct His spiritual atom
- 85: The invisible force of magnetic attraction
- 86: But it would be superior to atoms
- 87: Demolish the Freethinkers of yesterday
- 88: It was introduced with Abraham
- 89: But all intoxicants with their blighting curse
- 90: Invisible law and invisible force
- 91: Comte totally discards belief in God
- 92: Take the superstitious worship of the Virgin Mary
- 93: And through them we have creative power
- 94: Feel for thy fellow man with love and thou shalt have wisdom
- 95: Shrubs and flowers have their dual
- 96: Who is the third person of the Trinity
- 97: And decline the angelic ministrations of maternity
- 98: Ambition often fails to elevate men
- 99: Then came the aristocracy of wealth
- 100: That they are the headquarters of Deity
- 101: As impalpable as the viewless air
- 102: The molecules are composed of invisible magnets called atoms
- 103: These smaller pieces are called molecules
- 104: They may then pass to other solar realms
- 105: Like invisible atoms and electricity
- 106: Along the shining pathway to the sun
- 107: But also a repelling force of marvelous power
- 108: In chemistry molecules of opposite polarity unite
- 109: Gravitation ignores the laws of repulsion
- 110: May become similarly electrified to the sun
- 111: As evidence of dullness and stagnation
- 112: These pent up fires within the sun
- 113: And its present nebulous condition
- 114: By the electro magnetic ether of space
- 115: Flying swiftly around their primaries
- 116: Reasoning from electric law and cosmological facts
- 117: Evolving force of the universe
- 118: Which evolves infinite grades of life forms
- 119: The hickory into the natural fibre of the hickory
- 120: He must limit the universe and give its circumference
- 121: Thus the infinite wisdom and power of Creative Deity
- 122: Were really believers in pantheism
- 123: Agnostic pantheism has no explanation
- 124: Protoplasm and homogeneous substance
- 125: They would never have believed in pantheism
- 126: A chemical laboratory is the same as an electric laboratory
- 127: This was a fight between a malaria microbe
- 128: It hurled itself on the second phagocyte
- 129: Propelled by one fundamental force invisible electricity
- 130: The electrons or atoms of electricity can
- 131: These electrons and their currents of electricity
- 132: There is such a receiver at Poldhu
- 133: Warder in boldness of treatment