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a substance as the water in which the fish swim, 

 though it is transparent to light, while water is 

 only partially so. 



The lungs are the great electric reservoirs of the 

 body and take the electric current of the sun from 

 the atmosphere as constantly and naturally as the 

 electric wire takes the current from the battery or 

 the dynamo. 



Then it imparts electric energy to the blood and 

 sends it as an electric current and fluid coursing 

 through every part of the body, producing vitaliz- 

 ing life and growth, causing the heart valves to beat 

 and pump with marvelous power, the pulse to throb, 

 and the whole machine to pulsate, thrill and whir 

 with electric life and energy. 



Flammarion says three-fourths of a man's life 

 energy and nourishment comes from the air. And 

 Nicola Tesla says the time may come when man 

 may learn to live on air alone, as do some kinds 

 of vegetable and animal organisms. Man in time 

 may learn to so mix the elements of the atmos- 

 phere to supply the needs of the body, that he may, 

 by breathing it into his lungs, obtain all the essen- 

 tial elements to preserve its life and organism. 



The oxygen of the air keeps alive the fire of phys- 

 ical life, and the body may be compared to a 

 flame fed unceasingly by electric fire from the sun 

 and atmosphere, according to the laws of electric 

 combustion. The want of oxygen or this electric 

 energy from the air extinguishes the flame of life 

 as it extinguishes the flame of a lamp. 



The blood could not course through the veins 

 with such marvelous speed if it were not for the 

 electric energy imparted to it in the electric reser- 



