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Show 1 ' ' ' Men Know so Much and so little. iH ' ' ' ilfl, ff; If Livingston spent years In a vain effort to find H H1 &$t tuo source or sources o the Nile. That mighty iB ' ! ! tltti river had been carrying life to lower Egypt B' ' l H f V '"F through all the years of the Egyptian, the Greek, ?' Ill1' tlie Roman and a hun(lred other nations, but its- j JJm ''J$ mysterious sources had been hidden in the fast- H-: ' .' t jM SlnK nesscs of the Dark Continent. For uncounted . laStl centuries there had been deep solicitude regnrd- Lh Ural lng ' Even te great Julius thought that to find jw l would be higher glory than to conquer a new J f'iil Well, for years men have been seeking the H " f IP North Pole. As one has failed another has t ;( i sprung up, sure that with improved facilities he ' ' ' T Vif would be more fortunate. So far all that have 5 ' ' ' 'iM ' 1' not clec nave come broken and crippled back, it H' ffi -M$ has but been a story of repeated failures. We B' i 'li S 'f could never understand the longing and the en-Hi en-Hi ! jt m thuslasm that impel men to continue the efforts, H' ' ' I W tiir' especially since it has been so nearly reached I t ' 'fl' M Jiillv tuat ancy -hat had possessed so many that H 1 ' Kif?! around It rolled an open sea of temperate climate Hi has 1)een dissipated. But we can understand that S' i " W there might be an interest awakened to find the H I It titii t. W magnetic pole. Though there has been so mtich Hi I ;p mb M laerned about electricity in the past few years, Hi ; Jt ily Bti11 we uelleve those who have obtained most H j .''Ufllil information are ready to admit that while cer-H cer-H 1 ' H MHml taln causes set in motion will produce certain H 'r mRSm electrical results, still their knowledge is most : ' superficial. They see what is done, they cannot H nSffllSl- explain why it should be so. Men have studied I' ; fi ImPIIs the air currents and have found what the effects B ! ' ,i if of neat and cold are upon the air; they put this H ' n ail(I tbat t086tlier predt Witli feasonal)le accuracy what winds will ' blow tomorrow, but none of them has ever traced out the currents of electricity or pretended to anticipate their going or coming. Forty or fifty years ago Andrew Jackson Davis pretended that ho could at will go into a clairvoyant state, that- in that condition ho could see the souls of the newly dead passing away on waves of electricity that circled the earth as do the rivers that run down to the sea. He had one advantage. Men might jeer it his pretentions but could not prove that he was a charlatan. But without treating seriously his assertions, still it is easy to believe that this earth of ours is filled with electric currents; it is easy to oe-lieve oe-lieve that electricity is the life of the wn-ld, that it is the author of the sunlight and that it gives color to the flowers and makes the harvest certain; that it is the element which the Infinite uses through which to create and run the machinery ma-chinery of His universe. We can believe, too, that it is fed to this planet from the sun. Through observation men have discovered that when many spots are seen on the sun, that is always followed by atmospherical atmos-pherical and electrical disturbances on earth; that storms increase in fury and there is unusual violence In the diseases that smite men and animals. ani-mals. This is one of those years. And as the power of electricity is immeasurable, who can positively dispute Professor Stewarts theory that earthquakes are often caused by electrical disturbances. Who is the scientist that is going to trace out electrical currents to their sources and explain their flow or when they becqine obstructed? A glimpse of the truth, or a vision of it, was in the brain of Shakespeare when he made Puck: exclaim: "I will put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes." He called the act, though it required three hundred years to reduce the wierd fancy to a palpable fact Who knows but some vital truths might be discovered" by a" visit" to the earth's magnetic pole? |