Article April 29, 1911 Issue

With the discovery and recent perfection of the new...

Edgar Lucien Larkin

With the discovery and recent perfection of the new ultra-violet light microscope, and the companion apparatus, the micro-photographic camera, with rapidly moving sensitive films, it seems that the extreme limit of vision of the human eye has been reached. Inorganic and organic particles have been seen, and these so minute that [the smallest] objects visible in the most powerful old-style instruments are as huge chunks in comparison. An entire microscopic universe as wonderful as the sidereal universe, the stellar structure, has been revealed. This complexity actually exists; but exploration has scarcely commenced. Within a hundred years, devoted to this research, the micro-universe may be partially understood. Laws of micro-movements may be detected and published in text-books like those of the gigantic universe of suns and their concentric planets and moons.

I cannot look into these minute moving and living deeps without instantly believing that they are mental—ever motion is controlled by mind. The longer I look at the amazing things the deeper is this conviction. This micro-universe is rooted and grounded in a mental base. Positively, and without hope of overthrow, this assertion is made—the flying particles know where to go. Coarse particles, those visible in old-time microscopes, when suspended in liquids, were observed to be in rapid motion, darting to all geometrical directions with high speed. But the ultra-microscope reveals moving trillions of far smaller bodies, and these rush on geometric lines and cut out angles with the most incredible speed, specific for each kind and type.

Edgar Lucien Larkin.

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