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as miraculous, so do we, the civilized people of the twentieth century, regard certain deeds of Mahavira, Jesus and others as supernatural? Might it not be that just as the cause of the marvel by the people in the story was their backwardness in the art of reading and writing, so are our wonder, incredulity and doubt caused by our ignorance of the force, or forces, of Nature employed by sages and saints in performing their wonderful feats? Does not the man of Science astonish us by the exhibition of the mysterious virtues of Magnetism and Electricity? Those who are familiar with the wonderful powers of these two forces of Nature will not find it difficult to concede that if one could only establish full control over them one would be able to perform most of the miracles ascribed to the Saviours of our race in the ages gone by. When we remember that the untold millions of tons of rock, earth and other solid matter which constitute our world are suspended in Space merely by the force of attraction, we shall not marvel at the possibilities open to a magnetic' personality. And, after all, what is magnetism other than a change of arrangement of the particles of a substance? When a bar of steel is magnetized, it exhibits certain properties which were not active in it before magnetization, and yet nothing has been added to, or subtracted from, it. We are taught that
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"the difference between the arrangement of the particles in a magnet and an ordinary piece of steel, or iron, might be likened to the difference in the packing arrangements of two boxes of eggs-in he first (corresponding to the magnet) the eggs are carefully packed, lying side by side, parallel to each other and to the sides of the box, with their small ends all turned in the same direction, and therefore
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