Our universal tug-boat is in the sky. It saves millions of dollars in
towage to London alone every year. And this world would not be
habitable without the moon to wash out every festering swamp and
deposit of sewage along the shore.
Gravitation reaches every place, whether worlds be there or not. This
force is universally present and effective. In the possibilities of a
no-world condition a spirit may be able to so relate itself to matter
that gravitation would impart its incredible swiftness of transference
to a soul thus temporarily relating itself to matter. What gravitation
does in the absence of the kind of matter we know it is difficult to
assert. But as will be seen in our second division there is still
ample room for its exercise when worlds as such have ceased to be.
In space empty of worlds there is light. It flies or runs one hundred
and eighty-six thousand miles a second. There must be somewhat on
which its wing-beat shall fall, stepping stones for its hurrying feet.
We call it ether, not knowing what we mean. But in this space is the
play of intensest force and quickest activity. There are hundreds of
millions of millions of wing-beats or footfalls in a second.
Mathematical necessities surpass mental conceptions. In a cubic mile
of space there are demonstrably seventy millions of foot tons of power.
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