Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1902-08-12

are called. Ihey form the PRINCIPAL
solids OF the muscular, nervous and
| giandular tissues. the serum of the
blood and of lymph. but no man on
earth except myself has eyer been able
to create a proteid. They have missed
! the whole secret because they have
been working at ordinary tempera-
lures. Just as the drop of water viii
not form from its two gases at $500
| degrees f. or at its own lower explo-
sion temperature unless the spark be
added, SO will protoplasm not form
except under certain electric and Their
NAL conditions.
For the last two months | have
been working ON these lines alone.
varying my temperatures from the ex-
IRENE cold produced by liquid air to
the intense heat of the compound blow
pipe, and have been repaid. A fort
night ago discovered how it was that
had erred, and since then | have sue
ceeded in everything have tried.
have formed the proteids. the fats and
the carbohydrates which 30 to make
up protoplasm. and with these for my
solid foundations | have made every
minute anG complicated organ of the
body. | have done more than that-I
have put those component parts to-
gether, and now behold what | have
nader
He lifted sheet, which was thrown
over heap of something on the table.
and | started back with a strange
mixture of awe and horror, for -stretch-
ed out on that marble slab lay a naked
body, which. If it had never been
man. living and breathing as lived
and breathed. then | would have sworn
1 dreamed.
The thoughts which began to come
into my mind probably showed in my
face, for the professor said: You
doubt? You think that | have lost my
reason and this thing is some man that
have killed. Well. do not blame
you. A year ago myself would have
scoffed at the very idea of creating
such man. But you shall see. you
shall be convinced, for in the next part
Of the experiment | must have your
help. | viii show you how l have
made this man or | will make another
before your eyes. Then you and |, we
will go further; we will do what no
one but God has ever done before-we
willmake that inert mass living man."
The horror of the thing began to
leave me, for l was fascinated by what
he said. and | began to feel the same
spirit with which he was inspired.
He took me into his private labora-
tory, and before my eyes, with only
the contents of few reagent bottles,
a blowpipe and an electric battery. he
made mass of human flesh will
not give you the formula, neither will
tell you in detail how it was done.
ecSd forbid that any other man should
see what | saw afterward.
"Now all that remains is the final
experiment, and that with your help |
propose doing tonight" said the pro
fessor. What we have to do is as
much of riddle to me as it is to you.
1t is purely and simply an experiment
am going to pass through that life
less clay the same current of electric
ity which if sent through living man
would, produce death. OF course. with
a man who had died from the giving
out of some vital function | could not
hope to succeed, but the organs of this
man which l have made are On per-
fectly healthy condition. 1t is my
hope, therefore, that the current which
would destroy living man will bring
this thing TO life"
We bore that naked body. not q |
corpse and yet so terribly like, into the |
electric laboratory and laid 1t ON a |
slab of slate. Just at the base Of its |
brain we scraped little bare spot not |
larger than pea, and, as live, drop |
of blood oozed cut. On the right wrist |
just over the pulse we made another |
abrasion, and to these spots we brought |
the positive and negative wires from |
off the mains of the street current out |
side
/ held the two bare. uninsulated bits |
of copper close to the flesh, Professor |
Holbrok switched into circuit 2,OcO |
volts Of electricity, and then before |
our startling eyes that thing which |
was only mass Of chemical com
pounds became man.
A convulsive twitching brought the |
body almost into a sitting position: |
then the mouth opened. and there burst |
forth from the lips groan.
| have been In the midst Of battles. l
and | have seen men dying MI around |
me, torn TO ribbons by shot and shell. |
and ! have not fiinched; but when !
tore the wires from that writhing. |
grooming shape and saw its chest be-