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filled : thus we enlist the universal grind of the whole of the 
astral systems, and thus the aether would become as doubt- 
less it is — the storehouse of magnetic power, the grand and 
never-failing reservoir where the energy of the Universe is 
stored, which it untiringly gives out ; where electrical and 
magnetical energies occupy, in its vasts, the place which 
vital energy holds in the world of life. 
It is probable that every orb gemming space teems with 
a great pulsing life, — the tie-bond, not alone of the Sun and 
his system, but of all suns and their systems,— one grand 
and homologous whole, floating around an ever-aCtive and 
untiring centre ; the energy of the Universe is the Formu- 
lator of Worlds. 
Such is the lesson I learn from the unnucleated cell. 
II. TELEPHONIC AUDIBILITY. 
By the Count 0 . Reichenbach. 
fo1ote' NGINEERING ’’ (February 13th, 1885, page 170) 
a reports, “Induction on Telephone Lines”: — 
“ Whatever may be the proper limitation to the 
term Induction, it is trusted that the same mind which in- 
vented the telephone may yet devise some means to annihi- 
late the disturbing influences which limit its application. 
Mr. W. W. Jaques, one of Professor Bell’s coadjutors, has 
been making investigations upon underground lines, and 
finds the empirical rule that when the product of the static 
capacity of the line in micro-farads, by its resistance in 
ohms, is less than 18,000, it is possible to use the telephone 
for commercial purposes ; but when this product amounts to 
between 18,000 and 30,000, then the transmission is imper- 
fect, and nothing can be understood except by skilled ope- 
rators. No telephonic signals can be transmitted when the 
product exceeds 30,000.” 
Understanding the reasons for an obstacle is a first stage 
towards its removal. The following, I hope not without 
interest for physiologists and metaphysicians, might therefore 
prove suggestive for inventive experimentalists. 
