Words from an Hebrew: LET THERE BE LIGHT: and there was. -- The sublimity of the original is lost in our language by the cumbrous multiplication of particles. Explained: Light is not itself a substance but is a condition or state of matter; and this primeval light was probably electric, arising from condensation and friction of elements as they began to arrange themselves in order. And this, again, was due to what is commonly called the law of gravitation, or of the attraction of matter. If on the first day electricity and magnetism were generated, and the laws given which create and control them, we have in them the two most powerful an active energies of the present and of all time-or possibly two forms of one and the same busy and restless force. And the law thus given was of gravitation, of which light was the immediate result.