The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."

In the supremacy of our creative imagination let us make empty
space, in order that we may therein build up a new universe. Let us
wave the wand of our power, so that all created things disappear.
There is no world under our feet, no radiant clouds, no blazing
sun, no silver moon, nor twinkling stars. We look up, there is
no light; down, through immeasurable abysses, there is no form;
all about, and there is no sound or sign of being--nothing save
utter silence, utter darkness. It cannot be endured. Creation is
a necessity of mind--even of the Divine mind.

We will now, by imagination, create a monster world, every atom
of which shall be dowered with the single power of attraction.
Every particle shall reach out its friendly hand, and there shall
be a drawing together of every particle in existence. The laws
governing this attraction shall be two. When these particles are
associated together, the attraction shall be in proportion to the
mass. A given mass will pull twice [Page 6] as much as one of half
the size, because there is twice as much to pull. And a given mass
will be pulled twice as much as one half as large, because there is
twice as much to be pulled. A man who weighed one hundred and fifty
pounds on the earth might weigh a ton and a half on a body as large
as the sun. That shall be one law of attraction; and the other shall
be that masses attract inversely as the square of distances between
them. Absence shall affect friendships that have a material basis.
If a body like the earth pulls a man one hundred and fifty pounds at
the surface, or four thousand miles from the centre, it will pull