466 Recent Progress of Electricity. [August, 
grouped together in such a way, that a code of signals can 
be formed by them that shall be equivalent to ordinary lan- 
guage and be easily transferred into it by those in charge, 
at either end of the wire of communication, and so rapidly 
can he do his work that three or four clocks at either end 
can be giving and receiving messages at the same instant of 
time. Electron can even write out messages as fast as they 
are sent, when he is supplied with necessary materials and 
suitable apparatus for the purpose. 
But what is still more wonderful and demonstrative of the 
power and wisdom of the Master whom he serves, this Geni 
can send his voice, in an audible and intelligible form, to a 
distance of hundreds — or even thousands — of miles. And 
this is the way in which this lately discovered power of his 
can be applied to the service of mankind. An imp belonging 
to the ferric, or some of the other tribes for which Electron 
has a partiality, is selected, of a thin, delicate, and highly 
sensitive structure, and is placed in a position where the 
Geni can have free access and contact with him. A person 
wishing to speak with a friend in a distant part of the world 
has only to address his words at a short distance to this 
imp, whose sensitive body is immediately made to vibrate in 
harmony with the sound-waves of his voice. These delicate 
and invisible vibrations are recognised and received by the 
Geni where he lies enveloping the atoms of the imp, and are 
by him carried to the other end of the line of transit, where 
they are repeated by him in the body of another imp simi- 
larly placed in regard to the conducting medium, with the 
result of causing corresponding vibrations of the air, so as 
to reproduce sounds and words exactly corresponding to those 
emitted by the speaker at the distant station, so that his 
listening friend can hear them instantly, and exactly as they 
were pronounced. 
Intelligence so transmitted, by either of these methods, 
can be quickly communicated by messenger to the person 
for whom it is intended, or to the public by means of the 
newspaper and the post ; and thus the spirit Electron may 
be said to supply the part of a nervous system to the world, 
keeping all its parts in immediate sympathy with each other, 
and enabling them to aCt in harmony for the general 
advantage. 
The sensitive and delicate perceptions and touch of women 
are found to be peculiarly adapted for these manipulations ; 
and it must be gratifying to the advocates of women’s rights 
to find that a new field has thus been opened up for their 
employment which is at once scientific, congenial, and re- 
