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Roger Seaton was a man of many philosophies He had one for every day in the week, yet none ith to thoroughly satisfy himself While still a mere lad he had taken to the study of science as a duck takes to water,--no new discovery or even suggestion of a new discovery missed his instant and close attention His avidity for learning was insatiable,--his intense and insistent curiosity on all e to the quality of his brain,it sharp, brilliant and incisive To him the ordinary social and political interests of the world were sireater her purpose than those of an insect, just to live, eat, breed, and die, was to him preposterous

"Think of it!" he would exclaianisation of our planet for THAT! For a biped so stupid as to see nothing in his surroundings but conveniences for satisfying his stomach and his passions! We men are educated chiefly in order to learn how to make money, and all we can do with the money WHEN made, is to build houses to live in, eat as much as ant and more, and breed children to e leave all the stuff we have earned, and who either waste it or add to it, whichever suits their selfishness best Such lives are absolutely useless,--they repeat the sa nowhere Occasionally, in the course of centuries a real Brain is born--and at once, all who are ainst it, like fa to tear it to pieces and devour it--if it survives the attack its worth is only recognised long after its owner has perished The whole scheent and ludicrous, but it is not intended to be so--of that I aed to explain what he conceived as this "so else," he would answer-"There has always been 'so that stupid humanity has taken centuries to discover Sound-waves for exaht-rays,--electricity--these have been freely at our service froo, had not dull-wittedpurposes than an oil-lamp or a tallow candle! If, in past periods, he had been told 'there is sohed his infor--'there is so about in the darkness with a candle when a great force of wider light is all round us, only awaiting connection and application to our uses"