ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



suffered the scorn of the want- wit) , has been 

 wooed into fruitful reality. 



The marvel of man's collaboration with 

 the sun in photography was not enough. 

 Some one wished the figures of the photo- 

 graph to move, and the movies had to come ; 

 neither was that enough. Edison thought 

 they might as well talk, so he made them 

 talk. In like manner, the alchemist's dream 

 may shatter the value of precious stones, as 

 the dream of the poet and the musician have 

 turned the tide of a military victory, and the 

 rapt vision of a seer transformed the spirit 

 of the world. In other words, the spirit of 

 man, which Solomon called the candle of the 

 Lord, in process of time may become an 

 electric chandelier, with scores of other im- 

 provements beside that of indirect lighting. 

 Like electricity, the human mind seems 

 capable of furnishing power for any enter- 

 prise, from the construction of a vast sus- 

 pension bridge, or tunnel, and the manu- 

 facture of laboratory jewels, to the produc- 

 tion of a spineless cactus or a seedless orange. 

 So much, indeed, is the action of mind like 



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