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at a distance (whether a few streets or a thousand miles 
away) has only to address his words near to this imp, whose 
sensitive body is immmediately made to vibrate in harmony 
with the sound-waves of the voice. These delicate and in- 
visible vibrations are recognised and received by the Genie 
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 in the air, so as 
to reproduce sounds and wprds exactly conesponding 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, — so exactly indeed (as piobably many 
of you have had an opportunity of verifying) that the person 
listening can say at once “ this is Mi. So-and-so, 01 that 
is an Englishman, an Irishman, a Frenchman, or a lady, or 
a child. 
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 so the spirit Electron may be 
said to supply the office 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 advan- 
tage. And thus, by the immediate and unimpeded inter- 
change of intelligence, and the prompt removal of prejudices 
and misunderstandings throughout the world, Electron is 
becoming one of the chief harbingers of the “ good time 
coming,”— that millennium which many of the nations are 
longing for and looking forward to. 
The 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 congenial, scientific, and remunerative. In 
one room alone at the London Post-Office, in St. Martin’s-le- 
Grand, there are a thousand female clerks, whose aCtive 
brains' and fingers are constantly at work ; and from this 
instance we may judge of the vast army of women employed 
in the service of Electron throughout the world ! 
The movements of a Spirit such as Electron are essen- 
tially of a different nature from those of material things 
which are adted upon by the laws of gravitation and other 
forces which are readily recognised by our senses, and which 
can be intelligibly comprehended, measured, and pradtically 
