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still living is the time when it required forty days to make the voyage
to Europe, and to obtain, or to send, news between the two countries.
Now, within forty minutes, the news is flashed under the ocean. All
these discoveries that annihilate Time and Space are simply the result
of the evolution of life to higher stages; of the advance of man into
the ethereal realm. For is not the underlying and fundamental truth
this: that all is spirit? One may talk of "the spiritual life," but
there is no other life! Withdraw the spiritual element, and there is no
life at all! The difference, then, between the physical and the material
worlds is only a difference of degree,--as ice-water, steam, and vapor
are only different degrees and conditions of the same element. Progress
is the transformation of the physical into the spiritual; of the lower
and cruder and denser life into the finer, the more potent, the more
ethereal. Energy is proportioned in potency to its ethereal aspects. In
its cruder and denser form there is only a low degree of potency, and in
its more ethereal forms is there higher potency. The ox-team is a dense
and crude form of potency, and the electric motor is the more ethereal
and intense form of energy. Now the progress of humanity is unfailingly
registered by its advance into the employment of the ethereal forces and
the more intense energies, as these form conditions that react upon
life. How far more intelligent a nation may be when its facilities for
swift intercommunication foster and stimulate and instantly disseminate
the knowledge of all events, discoveries, and experiences; and when its
facilities for swift transportation facilitate all economic and social
intercourse! Judged, then, by their unfailing measurements, how
significant was the triumphal achievement of wireless telegraphy on the
eve of the dawn of 1903.

If telepathy is "the science of the soul's interchange with God--of the
interchange of the thought of one soul with another;" if it "reveal
that realm of consciousness where all God's thought is interpreted to
the soul:" if "its vibration never dies out of the atmosphere of
thought;" the discovery of this great law must indeed take precedence of
that of any other achievement of the past century.

The nature of Human Personality holds the secret of spiritual evolution.
It doth not yet appear what man may be; but the increasing knowledge of
his powers; the development of those heretofore lat