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Show . 1 Tie I'onalir Ideaef Ellrldly. Onecf th. chief ends r IpIr electrical educaUon is to . elm uMc a certain sort of ereJulltj. Hie popular Idea of electricity i'toloo'c ,,Sn itasamysteriouiforccom-iu itasamysteriouiforccom-iu from nowhere in larticular, doing very nearly what it pleases, and equally able to produce j spark audageceralduruptiou ufthounl. vei. There Is a teuJencyoulhe part of certain people to contem-plalc contem-plalc it as an African doci libSiw-gre.-, a wonderful aud Ineffable wmethlng that need only bo Invoked In-voked to produce a!mo auyreult that can be named. This spirit Ins, perhaps liastened the nrch o! electrical industries, but ll i certainly cer-tainly unworthy to encourage it Hie i-ouer peoj.le are brought to look upon electrical iwerss ouly one ot the I'rotean farms of energy, as subject to known laws and quite tram-formable Into other kinds of energy, the better for e cry body concerned. To be sure we do not know what electricity it;in fact, it is quite probable prob-able that it b not a separate entity at all, but on tho other hand we do not know what the force called gravitation is. Vet the actions of both under gUen conditions can t-e foretold with cun-ldcrablB ac -Jrary. and perhaps wc should not tie .iblu to do much more with th-mlfn.-ture should yield up her profound secrets and set the unqoenchaelui curiosity of man at rest. look at electric entrgy as a force obedient to certain law, known an I un-know un-know u, able in accomplMi much In skilful bauds, but do not imagllu It I as ready to do all serts of mtrvelous tiling without any particular j method in Its madoess. Aecrectf llorfct |
