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 people welcome the very latest discoveries in physics as the people centuries ago would have hailed "miracles" and "signs." But its effect on the workers was reassuring. "This great power should not pass into the hands of the few," said one of their representatives the other day. "It should become the instrument of the people, and not of a ruling class."

One cannot but dwell with pleasure on the fact that electric cables, and wires, and "installations " of every kind are projections, not of fighting organs, like the common knife or hammer, but of the nervous system. The nervous system which drains feeling, as it were, from every region of the body, collects it in special organs, attracts it, as Luys says, by means of nervous conductors, so that it becomes a mobile force, transmissible to a distance: the nervous system, which makes sympathy and unity possible! It has got itself projected at last! And just as light, though terrible, is reassuring, so those projections that bind continents together, and make the lonely station a part of the busy world, are chasing away the last terrors of the dark ages, wiping out their dark dreams.

Yes! that same energy which makes communication between people thousands of miles apart possible, and destroys distance, is not only present in