Electricity 



powers. It begins at once to marry the resources 

 of the mechanic and the chemist, the engineer 

 and the artist, with issue attested by all its own 

 fertility, while its rays reveal province after 

 province undreamed of, and indeed unexisting, 

 before its advent. 



Every other primal gift of man rises- to a new 

 height at the bidding of the electrician. All the 

 deftness and skill that have followed from the 

 upright attitude, in its creation of the human 

 hand, have been brought to a new edge and a 

 broader range through electric art. Between the 

 uses of flame and electricity have sprung up 

 alliances which have created new wealth for the 

 miner and the metal-worker, the manufacturer 

 and the shipmaster, with new insights for the 

 man of research. Articulate speech borne on 

 electric waves makes itself heard half-way across. 

 America, and words reduced to the symbols of 

 symbols expressed in the perforations of a strip 

 of paper take flight through a telegraph wire 

 at twenty-fold the pace of speech. Because the 

 latest leap in knowledge and faculty has been 

 won by the electrician, he has widened the scien- 

 tific outlook vastly more than any explorer who 

 went before. Beyond any predecessor, he began 

 with a better equipment and a larger capital to 

 prove the gainfulncss which ever attends the 

 exploiting a supreme agent of discovery. 



As we trace a few of the unending interlace- 

 ments of electrical science and art with other 

 sciences and arts, and sttidy their mutually 

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