, 1866-09-28
roo Mnch I.Iec,rici,r.

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| hnen the human sysIemis overcharged with
eiec'rleiy, ~ becomes unhealthy, nervous, ex-
eitaOe, irritable and if the over charge is kept
up tue body viii soon break down with the
wear aud tear to. winch it is subject. IL tue
system Is n0teuiiieIeutlS charged win electricity,
tue oOuy becomes debIlIIated and decays for The
Lack ot nervous or vital force 10 Keep it fn exis-
tenee. mus too much electreity-An over
supply otneNous force-s as fatally injurious
in It's Consequences as too little. A body over
charged with electricity is like u steam boiler
overcharged with sleam-Oyer-worked, over
strained, aud soon wears out, or perhaps sud-
denly bursts Or collapses Aue, and is thus de-
strOyed, or its efficiency greatly impaired. Its
| question lfih this age Uf steam and telegrs ph,
the wOsld'is ooi'oyercharged With electricity; if
it has not too much nervous force for ats mental
physical and moral health. Ia the old times,
before Watt took II into his head TO sit in a
kitchen aud watch tea-kettcs, before Franklin
aud Morse commenced fooling with lightuiug
the world logged along at IA slow and easy gait
and it was IA healthy world, in the physical
sense as moral II world US it now is ; and
though not quite as sharp and quick-wItted,
perhaps, WAS an intellectual world. lifts brains
did not work as fast as they do now, they were
more healthy in their operation they did not
become SO frequently deranged and the mus
cular forces did not become so easily destroyed,
So quickly broken down. II there was less brill
fancy then than now, there were less disOrdered
intellectg; if people did not live as fast they
DO now, they lived longer if they were not SO
mercura as now, they were generally more re-
liable. With telegraph lines running all over
the world and thousands and thousands Of bat
teres constantly flashing electrical currents
hithrr and yOn, the world is becoming over
charged with plectricriy. Its nervous system IS
| overwOrked. The overdose of electricity keeps
up an unhealthy state Of excitement i produ
ces false impressions on the mind 1t agItateS
the brain it disturbs the stomach, and deranges
digestion What with telegraphic rumUrs,
gruundeSs and otherwise, telegraphic lies aud
telegraphic truths, rushing and clashinF from
one hemisphere to another, and from town to
town, constant strain and wriug Is kept mp on
the physical system OF the world at large, WHICH
Will probably emd in producing results similar
to those produced upon the systems of iniiVld-
urIs by an overdose of electricity in the nervous
system. All things, ,ruowadayS, appear to be at
iected by electricity la old tunes, 1t took years
TO fight out Il war; now 1t takes only days. In
old times it took lie or a siander Il year or two
to circumnav; gate the globe it only takes 1t us
many hours now More books are printed each
minute now than were printed each year in the
Seventeenth Century. 1t takes less time now to
decide the fate ola nation than it did then to
decide upon voyage across the Atlantic. We
frequently remark that our g:audtLhers and
great Cranlfd(hers lived too slow. Tuey were
not nvcrcharscd with electricity, as we are. II
they lived slower than we do, they lived longer,
ani probably enjoyed life better. One thing is
certain, they did not need 50 many Insane Asy-
Iums There Is Il Cause for every effect. Is our
fast style OF firing and thinking generally the
effect of ovcr-dOscS Of electricity administered
bv telegraph or are the tGlegraphs The cause Of
our fast style of living aud thinking The fast
living and thinking, teegraphS and steam, ap-
pear, alta casual glance, to have come along to-
gether vet it is an undenia6l: fact that, so far
"a the world at large is concerned, fast living,
fast acting, etc, followed in the wake Of steam
and phS. 1t is not, therefore unreasona-
bile TO inter that the world is overcharged with
crciricftY, that it is in the condition of the midi
vidual whose system is overcharged with nerTou3
flrce, aud that ii stands now more in need Of
an'i-spasmodics than of irritantS. philosophy
ical contemporary says that the world stands in
need of irritints that for the bencht OF its
health. its morals, its mind, it should be doSed
with cxritants. We are of the impression that
it stands ia uerd of sedAfves. Its nervous sys>
TEN is altogether too high strung for safety it
is too highly charged with electricity for its good
thealth.-S.F T. Call