Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-09-21
THE ELECTRIC FLUID.
It's Wonders and Its DISQUALIFICATION to
Ialsg'aphy--supremacy Of the Morse
system.


hHQ not become "a science, or Tile ihelh
system, d nothing WAS as yet known OF
GiN mi>m. kii Is and Princes, "a wei.
M the ravant, b. ggoi the favor Of being |
admitted 10 the pnces WHERE tlecir-
cal ext RIM -nts Ntrt peffJtfied TN Re, |
stra &c and my.t rious apparatus and at !
nopiiltc huaphei "a bed them a. IL /
were sitl-buuud Whue in hrratLless awe |
and wih thc M, - mead and minute pre-
caut ons, they discoursed upon this " IN
dcriul subject.
wren these lovers OF the marye'ous |
Withdrew fom thc.c scenes of wonder |
ami mystery, maryeling at the things they !
hal tc,n, their excited imagiuatiOns sous
magniicd the Phenomena, aud thtlr mluts |
as aui"oly rarrird away by yAgu and cUn
fused nrti ms.
It ha- been chiefly owing ia Ignorance
OF the principle Of natural srieLce tnnt
mankind IN all ages has b, zen go easily
mlu,el upon 10y pfete -ders nf ,uprruatu
raj p wtrs
The pfet,nd,d miracles of splr tua Ism
and eyeiysp rits Of degrading superstition
of the y cscut day vanish in smoke when
cdi ID dly examined 10y the light OF modern
-cincr, and there can he 10 question that
Il more g,n,ral kruWl,dgc Ut the laws Ot
nature aud The D. incplcs of .cieice would
tel Il 60 dissipa tnUusa d idle trrrOrs
winch haunt aud agittte the humrn mind,
-ni iu detect thousand kinds of impo--
ture hy which il has ~ long bee u held in
crneI % uiage, nm made d slavetJls own
uufuuad, Il fcats.
But What Is tuis wonder a. pow r, thir
subtle aud imluudciHb e lh viii h rs
cap our meon- of Ohs iYatin; hat at
one moment causes the distant rhurcn
bells 80 cuimr gu 50 swettly on the even
ing uir, and az the next Ia hard IN tue
mifhN pral OF heavens ar llery that at
tue tiiu- dc-cendu Z from heavens high
dou" Ia AL lis fury, dealing death and
destruction on every side. and at hnutuer
il sit u IN the sublime uurruHcatlon Of the
aurora horcalis.
The human mind has made many ia
tiir attcml Is to fithom the inner laAh OF
elect iirity, and this subject has exhausted
solnr OF the iirest intrltcts Of the laid.
Ercneity b. term derived from M
Grr,k for amber, CR'd to he the tlrri sub.
stance upon Vhich electric i action Was
uhsrr,ed) and "a uame given to science
which explains and illustrates the opcrl-
liUus of q very subtle fluid. called the
electric fluid, which is SUPPOSED To per.
wade every pant of nature and surrounds
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