The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

Three Ways Of Increasing Human Energy

Human life fills our minds with greatest wonder.

Where does life come from? What is it? Whither does it tend?

Lord Kelvin, in his profound meditations, showed that life will last only around 6 million years, after which the sun’s bright light will have ceased to shine along with its life-giving heat.

However, Professor Dewar did beautiful experiments with liquid air. It showed that the germs of organic life are not destroyed by cold, no matter how intense.

It means that they may be transmitted through the interstellar space.

We might never be able to comprehend human life. But we know certainly that it is a movement.

The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it.

Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force.

Every Movement In Nature Must Be Rhythmical

All mass possesses inertia.

All force tends to persist.

Owing to this universal property and condition, a body, be it at rest or in motion, tends to remain in the same state. A force, manifesting itself anywhere and through whatever cause, produces an equivalent opposing force. As an absolute necessity of this, it follows that every movement in nature must be rhythmical.

Long ago this simple truth was clearly pointed out by Herbert Spencer, who arrived at it through a somewhat different process of reasoning.

It is borne out in everything we perceive. It is in:

• the movement of a planet
• the surging and ebbing of the tide
• the reverberations of the air
• the swinging of a pendulum
• the oscillations of an electric current
• the infinitely varied phenomena of organic life.

The whole of human life attests to it.

Birth, growth, old age, and death of an individual, family, race, or nation are all but a rhythm.

Therefore all life-manifestation is only a movement, even in its most intricate form, as exemplified in man.

To life applies all the same general laws of movement which govern throughout the physical universe.

FIG. 1. BURNING THE NITROGEN OF THE ATMOSPHERE.