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 one hundred and eighty thousand miles in a second. But what a grand field, as we may suppose, now opened upon our ancestors, in bringing back the past aspects of the world! And these, as we shall afterwards see, could be restored by high scientific manipulation, even to the actual life dimensions.

Finally came the discovery of our venerable and illustrious Black, within, as I have hinted, quite modern times—the climax discovery of the Reduplication of the Cross-Electric, by which we have since been enabled to launch our material bodies into that ether-filled space, which was previously traversed only by our minds and imaginations and our vibration messages. But now, with electro-light speed at locomotive command, who or what is to limit our future travel, as to either range or speed! White already foresees for us a travel-speed approaching that of ordinary light. "Give to us sailors," he says, "the wide interastral ocean, and who knows what speed we may fail to work up to in such a free field of open sea? Whereas we now only travel to the planets, a thousand years hence, Green," he would say to me, "we shall be voyaging to the very stars, and having personal acquaintance and handshaking with those whom as yet we are permitted only to intermessage."