60 On the Municipal Electric Telegraph, 
The analogy here with the functions of the motor nerves and ap- 
paratus of the animal system is equally strict and important. In | 
any system of Municipal organization in which it is attempted to 
supply a living bond by means of the Telegraph, the distinction 
between these functions must be recognized ; and in any system 
in which it is desired to employ both of these, to obtain unity of — 
action from a variety of parts, it is necessary that the analogy — 
furnished by the animal system, should be preserved in the rela- 
tion of these functions. In other words there should bea Centie — 
to which all impressions from the circumference or extremes — 
should first be conveyed over one set of conductors, and from — 
which after an act of intelligence, the impulses to corresponding — 
action should proceed over another. Here is the brain and ner 
-vous system of the animal or of man. The Telegraph whet — 
‘ ere are however many 
portant safeguards in the erection and arrangement of Conductots 
in the City, by which the security from interruption of Elect? 
Circuits may be rendered almost absolute, these will now bé 
