Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-14
Electricity, Life, and Edison.

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Electricity, Life, and Edison.
| a very interesting interview be.
tween Thomas A. Edison and news
paper man has just been published.
in reading which one gains many val
liable subjects for thought, as we'll
as adding greatly to the admiration
which Mr.. Edison's wonderful scien-
tific achievements have aroused. One
cannot avoid hoping that Mr.. Edison's
future researches will solve to his
satisfaction some spiritual problems
also.
Mr.. Edison says. in effect that HUI
man energy, q power as real as cleo
tricity, may some day be transmitted
over wire and accomplish the same
results. Energy in the body is as
great mystery as electricity. Both
! powers can be controlled and applied,
yet in neither case is the source OF
power known. He says, II don't know
what electricity is. 1t has remained
an undefinable power. 1t is a great,
a terrible force in this world, but no
+, one, after years of exhaustive search,
has ever been able to find Z tangible
clcw that might lead to the solution
OF that energy. 1t has never been
analysed. Lives and fortunes have
been spent in trying to discover its
origin.
Il am tired Of clectricity-I want
to find something new. I want to dis
cover q new energy and apply it and
use it the same as electricity. Lord
Kelvin spent his entire life trying to
prove that electricity was the mya-
tcrious energy that gave us life, but
he failed. Its origin remains the same
unsolved enigma. What it is in our
bodies that gives us our energy Is
a greater mystery stil!. Before We
can solve this problem and discover
/
er. we had better find ont what Is on
tho other side of space.
"Solvc the energy Of light. the vast
ness of space, and the unfathomable
law OF grevltation. and no doubt With
that new scientific weapon we may be
able to unearth the true theory of the
origin and cause OF life. l don't be-
leve In a soul. We are nothing but
weak motors that use this unknown
energy for q fuel. and after q while
we wear out. Is it not possible that
there may be some other great force
in existence of which Up to date VIC
ara ignorant? There may still be an.
other unknown power in this world.
Time will tell. Work will tell. /
have lived hundred years; that is.
have worked 4 double shift for fifty
years"
Herein Mr. Edison apparently hits
the nail sQuarely on the head. There
is an unknown power in this world.
There is 4 mysterious source which
gives us power. and it is on the other
side Of space. 1t IS the same great
power, out OF reach OF mortals. which
holds the sun and moon and stars in
place, and the only way we can gain
any real knowledge of it is to follow
{,a nf hn Tol nT fhf,
Universe. When we reach the power
house. we are told that We shall be
taught what is hidden from us here.
but while at our stations here on
earth we have the assurance that II
we obey orders by doing His will We
shall know here that there is a here
after, and that we have soul. \ few
experiments along this line will con-
vince Mr.. Edison of the source of the
greatest power that exists or ever can
exist. Even as the little talking dolls
invented by man cannot understand
the power that creates them, so the
miglitiest intellects that have peopled
the earth cannot comprehend the pow
cr that fills them except so far as God
has given them the knowledge. and
He breathed the breath OF life into
their nostrils' is the best explanation
Of our human energy that has yet
been given us.
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It is Il hard road to economy for
Uncle Sam when congressman are as