and political
interests of the world were simply absurd. The idea that the greater
majority of men should be created for no higher purpose than those of
an insect, just to live, eat, breed, and die, was to him preposterous.

"Think of it!" he would exclaim--"All this wondrous organisation of our
planet for THAT! For a biped so stupid as to see nothing in his
surroundings but conveniences for satisfying his stomach and his
passions! We men are educated chiefly in order to learn how to make
money, and all we can do with the money WHEN made, is to build houses
to live in, eat as much as we want and more, and breed children to whom
we leave all the stuff we have earned, and who either waste it or add
to it, whichever suits their selfishness best. Such lives are
absolutely useless,--they repeat the same old round, leading nowhere.
Occasionally, in the course of centuries a real Brain is born--and at
once, all who are merely Bodies leap up against it, like famished
wolves, striving to tear it to pieces and devour it--if it survives the
attack its worth is only recognised long after its owner has perished.
The whole scheme is manifestly unintelligent and ludicrous, but it is
not intended to be so--of that I am sure. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE!"

When urged to explain what he conceived as this "something else," he
would answer--

"There has always been 'something else' in our environment,--something
that stupid humanity has taken centuries to discover. Sound-waves for
example--light-rays,--electricity--these have been freely at our
service from the beginning. Electricity might have been used ages ago,
had not dull-witted man refused to find anything better for lighting
purposes than an oil-lamp or a tallow candle! If, in past periods, he
had been told 'there is something else'--he would have laughed his
informant to scorn. So with our blundering methods of living--'there is
something else'--not after death, but NOW and HERE. We are going about
in the darkness with a candle when a great force of wider light is all
round us, only awaiting connection and application to our uses."

Those who heard him speak in this way--(and they were few, for Seaton
seldom discussed his theories with others)--convinced themselves that
he was either a fool or a madman,--the usual verdict given for any
human being who dares break away from convention and adopt an original
line of thought and action. But they came to the conclusion that as he