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unfrequently the physical powers of ihan. More rapia than 

 light, the closed electric current conveys thought and will to 

 the remotest distance. Forces, whose silent operation in ele- 

 mentary nature, and in the delicate cells of organic tissues, 

 still escape our senses, will, when recognized, employed, and 

 awakened to higher activity, at some future time enter within 

 the sphere of the endless chain of means which enable man to 

 subject to his control separate domains of nature, and to ap- 

 proximate to a more animated recognition of the Universe aa 

 a Whole 



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