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 was direfully poor, and nevertheless refused