ling ship, the
twin-screw propeller; instead of stoves or fireplaces, with fuel to be
carried in and refuse to be carried out, we have the hot-water radiator,
and are on the eve of having heat, as we already have light, from
electricity.

Now when science provides the explanation of this ethereal universe
surrounding and interpenetrating that in which we live and psychic
science begins to explore it and formulate its means and methods, there
are persons who object on the ground of its "materializing heaven." If
one were to inquire as to what this idea of heaven is he would probably
receive no more definite reply than that it was supposed to be a
condition of playing on golden harps and waving palm branches. The
figurative pictures of the New Testament have largely been accepted as
literal ones, and it may be an open question as to which condition would
be the more "material," that of walking golden streets, waving branches
of palms and devoting one's time to the harp, or the life that
prefigures itself as a development and expansion of our present
intellectual, artistic, and spiritual life.

"Unless some insight is gained into the psychical side of things, some
communications realized with intelligences outside our own, some light
thrown upon a more than corporeal descent and destiny of man," wrote
Frederick W. H. Myers in that monumental work entitled "Human
Personality," which offers a rich mine of suggestion, "it would seem
that the shells to be picked up on the shore of the ocean of truth will
ever become scantier, and the agnostics of the future will gaze forth
ever more hopelessly on that gloomy and unvoyageable sea. For vast as is
the visible universe, infinite as may have been the intelligence that
went to its evolution, yet while viewed in the external way in which we
alone can view it--while seen as a product and not as a plan--it cannot
possibly suggest to us an indefinite number of universal laws. Such
cosmic generalizations as gravitation, evolution, correlation of forces,
conservation of energy, though assuredly as yet unexhausted, cannot, in
the nature of things, be even approximately inexhaustible."

[Sidenote: Finer Cosmic Forces.]

The entire trend of progress is toward the continued discovery of finer
cosmic forces and their utilization in practical affairs. Within the
past five years this tendency has strikingly demonstrated itself. The
evolution of the ways and means of travel offers, in itself,