The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-28
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this age are often overwhelmed with the
wonderful power manifested through
electricity, and though one-half of Its
mighty forces are yet undiscovered ana
are yet hidden in the secret treasure
house of nature, there is enough already
known of electric forces to satisfy
thoughtful scientific minds how and by
what power the planetory worlds are
Kept in motion, and what forces keep
our own beautiful earth revolving upon
its axis.
Electricity and magnetism are the
most mysterious and powerful agents
known to man. Only the Divine Mind
can measure the hidden forces of the
electric worlds. Only the Infinite Elec-
triclan can solve the mysterious power
which men fear and have tried to fetter,
but cannot wholly overcome.
Electricians may analyze, experiment
and render the scientists valuable ana
boundless assistance in their researches
and discoveries of this philosophic age.
But as yet no human mind has tri-
umphed over the One God mystery,
which Is slowly being revealed through
the development of human knowledge.
and understanding. This is the golden
age for grand efforts and achievements
in all branches of science and philoso-
ply. Progression, research and scientif-
ic discoveries flash like electric lights
along the line of years, and the new
century will bring her crown Of all hui
man discovery, viz, the power to ove"-
come atmospheric pressure and navigate
the air.
Franklin's hand drew down from the
clouds, and attracted from the atmos-
pheric forces the sword of electric power
called lightning, which has hung as an
object of deadly fear suspended over
human heads ever since the beginning,
when God said let there be light"
Did Franklin realize when he drew
down those flashes of electricity that he
klndled flame that was destined to il
Illuminate not only his own age and ma
ton, but the torch he lighted was des-
tined to illuminate the long line of ages
to follow? Did he dream that genera
lions yet unborn throughout unnum-
bered ages would repeat his name as the
immortalized scientist who first bottled
the flashes of electricity from the thun-
der-bolts of heaven, and thereby fitted a
golden key to natures securely locked
mysteries?
With all his ambitious dreams and no.
BILE desires for the mental development
and spiritual progression of man,
Franklin did not dream of the triumph
he had achieved.
The Tree of knowledge" placed in
the first garden must have been electric
ity. Historical records do not say what
nature the first fruit was An electrical
ball and golden apple may have de-
luded Adam. The serpent might have
been forked lightning, and he, through
fright, mistook the nature of the ser
pent Adam after he left the garden
was possibly tempted to look back with
regret upon the glory and ease he was
leaving behind, and beholding the light
ming still flashing over the gateway of
Eden, he continued his flight.
After long term of years he thought
the matter over, and possibly laid the
blame upon Eve, who defended herself
as but she could by telling the story of
the serpent. Her imagination enlarged
the facts and surrounded the whole af-
fair with interesting mystery, which has
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ing new interest as it rolled along the
ages. This is, however, the first au-
thentic report upon the nature of the
tree which bore the fruit which so disa-
greed with the internal arrangement of
the first man Adam.
The tree remained unknown till the
electric discoveries Of the nineteenth
century illuminated that dark chapter
in human history, and not till one of our
modern electricians was reading of the
Sword Of flame which guarded the en-
trance of Paradise, did it strike the
mind of the inventor that electricity
was the tree in Eden, and the electric
sword over Paradise was chain-light-
ming, or electric force presented in some
other form, which kept the human fam
lily from the joys of an earthly heaven
A Franklin's bottled lightning has
completely revolutionzed business
methods, and we'll nigh revolutionized
the minds of all scientific minded people.
A continuous advancement of electric
science shows that no one man, and no
generation of the human family, can be
justly credited with the grand discover
les in electricity. We must go back
even to prehistoric ages to find among
the astrological and astronomical stu
dents of by-gone worlds the successful
utilizers of this same mighty electrical
force, over which modern scientists and
philosophers are now rolling up their
learned eyes in perfect bewilderment.
The ancient scientists are fathers of the
grand discoveries which are being I'M
earthed by modern philosophers.
The ancients should be slightly credit
ed, and justly so, too, with many of the
great discoveries which are connected
with electric forces, and which science,
now being utilized by modern reason
and Judgment, bid fair to revolutionize
and enrich the world.
Who shall tell of the midnight lamps,
the pale students, whose wasted lives
and fruitless years attest to their zeal in
the cause of human knowledge and sci
entific discoveries! They lived, loved,
suffered and died. leaving footprints by
which other less gifted scientists have
found God in His Electric Habitation;
for the Supreme Creative force and
power is electricity.
When men first took the line of march
toward the gold fields of California
many embarked their all in an I'M
known venture. They knew the gold
was there and meant to find it. They
started from all parts of the country.
Active zeal and a desire to triumph in
spired their efforts and served them for
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