Chapter I: Front Matter

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_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.

_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