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consciousness of another brain. thrill is moulded by the shudder of the disc. It makes the second disc a sign-post that points upwards and bears the one word--"Perhaps." The other thing does so much with so little energy. No other thing is more But what is ether? No one knows. Sir Oliver Lodge has guessed that it end of the line the second disc re-creates these vibrations, which different shudder for every sound. It has thousands of millions of Here is a tiny disc of sheet-iron. I speak--it shudders. It has a separated minds. He will make clear how a thought, originating in the sages cannot comprehend. one knows. There is nothing to guide us in that unknown country except brain, passes along the nerve-wires to the vocal chords, and then in wire. As I speak, a thrill of electricity flits along the wire. This And so, notwithstanding all that has been done since Bell opened up lived with the telephone since its birth, can understand their protege. telephony to-day as it was in 1876, that a child can use what the wisest the way, the telephone remains the acme of electrical marvels. No wireless vibration of air to the disc of the transmitter. At the other shudder. And the shudder of the second disc reproduces my voice. That is twenty-five hundred miles away. Between the two discs runs a copper enswathed in the unknown. Not even the gray-haired pioneers who have different shudders. There is a second disc many miles away, perhaps As to the why and the how, there is as yet no answer. It is as true of is "perhaps the only substantial thing in the material universe"; but no what happens. But how--not all the scientists of the world can tell. The telephone current is a phenomenon of the ether, say the theorists. impinge upon the nerve-wires of an ear, and are thus carried to the

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