“ Gates’ laboratory, in which he is working out these problems of psycho-physical research, is filled with the most delicate instruments the human mind can conceive to accomplish his purpose. Fortunately for science there is no lack of money at his disposal, a wealthy friend having appropriated $25,000 a year to further the professor’s work, of which he is now only at the beginning. ”

“ The occasional insight he gives us into his work, the new world it opens to us, makes us impatient for the time when he shall be ready to give the results of his investigations in a more complete form to the public. ”

“ The tube and its contents are then subjected to slow heating until the soft glass is sufficiently melted to enable it to be pulled out bodily part way from the tube of hard glass containing it. The space thus left is an absolute vacuum. There is not one particle of air or any other gas, and yet here is a quantity of absolutely pure ether composed, as he proceeds to show, of distinct particles. In this experiment a metal ball on the end of a platinum wire is fixed in place incidental to the process of creating a vacuum. A glass lens focuses the sun’s rays at a point near the ball. ”