"The Horizon of matter does not rest on hydrogen. I contend that hydrogen is composed of three elements with a metallic base and that it belongs to the "interatomic" subdivision, by reason of its vibrational frequency and sympathetic outreach. Hydrogen is not an actual etheric element, for if it were such, it could not be confined in any container. No molecular structure can contain and hold the ether of the seventh subdivision, not even that lowest order ether of the fourth subdivision which is liberated as heat in chemical action. Were hydrogen a simple element, such as the ether, it would seek its medium of correspondent tenuity with a speed greater than that of light, notwithstanding any restraining influence at our command.

"My researches lead me to think that hydrogen carries heat in a latent condition, but I do not believe it will ever be possible to originate a device which will vibrate hydrogen with a sufficient frequency to cause it to evolve this latent heat.

"All known gases are compounds, the proof being that all of them submit to vibratory dissociation.

"There is much atmospheric celestial material that has never been revealed to man's senses. Attenuated elements extend to infinite reaches beyond hydrogen, including actual substances or compounds which have never been revealed to our senses. Beings fashioned of these substances could walk by our sides unseen and cast no shadow in the noonday sun."