AS TO OURSELVES 



Nor has that great being who is back 

 of each sense organ failed to remedy the 

 deficiencies of the ear even more won- 

 drously than those of the eye. I was 

 once told that a gentleman wished to 

 speak to me, and on my asking what he 

 wanted his voice trembled as he said that 

 his child had pneumonia. As his physi- 

 cian was with him we three then alternately 

 spoke, and though they were hundreds of 

 miles away, I could distinguish their 

 different voices as readily as if we were 

 actually together. It was by means of 

 an electrified wire that the ear heard 

 personal voice and tone transmitted a 

 thousand times farther and faster than 

 waves of air could vibrate. But what is 

 that marvel compared with wireless teleph- 

 ony? Here is man bidding that mysteri- 

 ous ether which pervades the whole uni- 

 verse to become a human voice speaking to 

 a human ear! 



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