are laws of the other world--even as the matter itself is matter
of the other world.

"In 1882, Professor Lodge, in a lecture before the Royal
Institution on 'The Luminiferous Ether' defined it as:

"'One continuous substance, filling all space, which can vibrate
as light, which can be sheared into positive and negative
electricity, which in whirls constitutes matter, and which
transmits by continuity and not impact every action and reaction
of which matter is capable.'

"This reads today like baby-talk but at that time (eighteen years
ago), it was considered by many timid conservative scientists as
'a daring movement.' It is noteworthy in that it was the first
public scientific announcement that the physical matter is a
manifestation or form of the ether. And it was made before
general acceptance of the division of the ether into soniferous,
luminiferous and tangiferous.

"'Which in whirls constitutes matter.' Professor Lodge believed
that 'some etheric molecules revolved so rapidly on their axis
that they could not be penetrated.' Watch the soap-bubbles that
I am blowing. Each and every one is revolving as the earth
revolves, from west to east. What I wish to call your attention
to is the fact that can be proven, both mathematically and
theoretically, that at a certain rate of speed in the revolution
they could not be penetrated by any rifle-ball. At a higher rate
of speed they would be harder than globes of solid chilled steel,
harder even than carbon. Professor Lodge believed that the