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The Radiant Center

agnostic accepts the philosophy that Spirit is all there is. Whichever way the scientist proceeds he comes to the same inscrutable force.

Atomic energy has been computed to amount to 16,381,000 tons in one cubic inch, oscillating billions of times a second. If you hit a man with a stone you may hurt him a little, but if you could let loose upon him the energy of a microscopic atom you would grind him to powder. What is the next finer force after atomic force and radial energy? Surely it must be that of thought which, if we knew how to use it would be more powerful than any so-called physical force however subtle.

All the great scientists of the day agree that, about and through everything, there is the play of Eternal Mind. Mrs. Boole, an eminent English writer on science, with the woman's intuition relates science to spiritual issues when she says, "The highest moral result of science unassisted by revelation is that there is around us a vital force of which we become recipient under certain moral conditions."

(Note that it is moral conditions which relate us to vital force. In the last analysis Religion and Life are one).

Force supplies a center of generation. There is no force known that does not act from a center outwards. Reasoning from