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EOSICRtJGIAN PHILOSOPHY
can readily realize that further progress depends upon the
discovery of still finer forces transmissible with still greater
facility. We know that that which we call wireless teleg-
raphy is accomplished 'without even the -use of wires, bttt
even that system is not ideal, for it depends upon energy
generated in a central plant, which is stationary. It involves
the use of costly machinery and is, therefore, out
of reach of the majority. The ideal force would be a power
which man could generate from himself at any moment
without machinery.
A few decades ago Jules Verne thrilled us with delight
when he conjured up before our imagination the submarine
boat, the trip around the earth in eighty days, etc. Today
the things that he pictured have become facts surpassing
even his imagination, and the day will come when we shall
have available for use a power plant such as spoken of
above. Bulwer Lytton, in his ''Coming Kace," has pic-
tured to us a force called "Vril " which certain imaginary
beings are possessed of and which they can use to propel
themselves over land, through the air and in various other
ways. Such a force is latent within every one of us, and
we speak of it sometimes as emotion. We feel its far-reaching
power at times as temper when it is unleashed, and we
say "a man has lost control of himself." No amount of
work can so tire the physical body and wreck it as when the
enormous energy of the desire body is let loose in a fit
of temper. Usually, at the present time, this enormous
force sleeps, and it is well that it should be so until we
have learned to use it by means of thought, which is a
still more subtle force. This world is a school to teach
us how to think and feel aright so that we may become
qualified to use these two subtle forces the power of
thought and the power of emotion.