ally contending with an indomitable power of
intellectuality and of spirituality,--spirituality is the strongest
force of your being. You are not made like other women. This being so I
can say to you what other women would not understand. Science is my
life-subject, as it is yours,--it is a window set open in the universe
admitting great light. But many of us foolishly imagine that this light
emanates from ourselves as a result of our own cleverness, whereas it
comes from that Divine Source of all things, which we call God. We
refuse to believe this,--it wounds our pride. And we use the
discoveries of science recklessly and selfishly--without gratitude,
humbleness or reverence. So it happens that the first tendency of
godless men is to destroy. The love of destruction and torture shows
itself in the boy who tears off the wing of an insect, or kills a bird
for the pleasure of killing. The boy is father of the man. And we come,
after much ignorant denial and obstinacy, back to the inexorable truth
that 'they who take the sword shall perish with the sword.' If we
consider the 'sword' as a metaphor for every instrument of destruction,
we shall see the force of its application--the submarine, for example,
built for the most treacherous kind of sea-warfare--how often they that
undertake its work are slain themselves! And so it is through the whole
gamut of scientific discovery when it is used for inhuman and unlawful
purposes. But when this same 'sword' is lifted to put an end to
torture, disease, and the manifold miseries of life, then the Power
that has entrusted it to mankind endows it with blessing and there are
no evil results. I say this to you by way of explaining the view I am
forced to take of this man whose strange case you ask me to deal
with,--my opinion is that through chance or intention he has been
playing recklessly with a great natural force, which he has not
entirely understood, for some destructive purpose, and that it has
recoiled on himself."

Morgana looked him steadily in the eyes.

"You may be right,"--she said--"He is--or was--one of the most
brilliant of our younger scientists. You know his name--I have sent you
from New York some accounts of his work--He is Roger Seaton, whose
experiments in the condensation of radioactivity startled America some
four or five years ago--"

"Roger Seaton!" he exclaimed--"What! The man who professed to have
found a new power which would change the face of the world