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would otherwise be miraculous, is an undoubted fact, and 

 electricity is probably a large element in the case. It is, 

 however, a subject that should not be trifled with, and it 

 hardly seems mete that it should be used as a means of 

 extracting shillings from the multitude, and shown as a 

 popular spectacle on the boards of a music hall. 



The leaps and bounds by which science has advanced 

 during the present century, and the progress that has been 

 made, is something so marvellous that it is impossible to 

 foresee what new developments may be in store in the 

 coming era. Amongst them, however, electricity must 

 take a foremost place, and, in studying it, much will be 

 learned about its distant branches, in which, very possibly, 

 may be included " mesmerism," or rather, " animal 

 magnetism." 



