t--and I say this with redoubled conviction, and with all the power,
force, energy and vehemence that I possess--if we are Nature's best
endeavor, if man is Nature's best product, if the Natural world is
incapable of any improvement, and life will forever be made to submit to
the tyrannical conditions of Nature, then it were better ten thousand
times over, that life were never called into existence, and that the
universe were null and void!

THE END

EDISON LETTER TO JOSEPH LEWIS

* * * * *

_From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N.J._

August 18, 1921.

Mr. Joseph Lewis, c/o The Truth Publishing Co., 1400 Broadway, New
York City.

Dear Sir:--

I received your book--"The Tyranny of God"--and have read it
through. I think as you do that death ends all, yet I do not feel
certain, because there are many facts that seem to show that the
real units of life are not the animal mechanism itself, but groups
of millions of small entities living in the visible cells. The
animal being their mechanism for navigating the environment, and
when the mechanism fails to function, i.e. die, the groups go out
into space to go thru another cycle. The entities are each highly
organized and perform their allotted task. If there is anything
like this we still have a fighting chance. You have doubtless read
interviews I have given lately on this subject. They appeared in
the Scientific Monthly for October 30, 1920 and the Cosmopolitan
for May, 1920.

Yours very truly,

Thos A Edison

Famous Inventor Gives Views of Death and Immortality in Correspondence
with Author of "The Tyranny of God."

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