Electrified School Children Excel

The secret of the universe is the secret of electricity.

"The New Knowledge" is the term used for designating the revelations which came with the study of radium and radio-activity. "The New Knowledge" has taught us that matter — lead, stone, wood, hydrogen, oxygen, everything and anything which we call matter — is nothing but electricity.

An atom of hydrogen consists of a thousand "electrons" — mere charges of electricity. An atom of lead consists of some hundreds of thousands of such "electrons'. That is why hydrogen is so light and lead so heavy. Each is drawn to that great mass of matter, the earth, in proportion to the number of electric charges which make up the earth. That is the law of gravitation. It is all a question of electricity.

We ourselves are nothing but collections of "electron" of many sorts. The rose in the bosom of beauty, and the bone in the jaws of the Beast, are like the Beauty and the Beast, nothing but greater or lesser, simpler or more complex collection of "electrons" or electric charges. Matter studied closely vanishes in matterless electricity.

We ought not to be astonished, therefore, when we learn that the ever-mysterious Nikola Tesla, the electrician-philosopher, is to have charge of an electrified school room in New York, which will be filled with electric waves of enormous voltage and frequency, but low volume or amperage, for the purpose of determining whether or not the minds and bodies of the backward pupils in the room will be invigorated. Teachers and pupils will all be ignorant of the experiment. Tesla expects to see a marked growth in the mental and physical vigor of these children.

There is an official report of a Swedish school which children in an electrified school room gained in growth during the experiment twice as fast as did the others in the other rooms. The result was physical, not mental. In various places experiments have been made by stringing over gardens and fields wires carrying high tension currents of this sort, and as a result the vegetables and crops grew with greater rapidity. We ought not to be surprised if the Tesla experiment in electrified school rooms produces marked results.

Electricity is love, hate, despair, thought, religion, in fact the passions, the functions of the soul — so far as those functions are inseparable from matter. The secret of the universe is in it.