WHAT IS ELECRICITY.
It is not at all strange that the almost universal use of electricity should raise the question of what this subtle power i*. We see its effects on every side, but the wisest of men' have a very imperfect understanding of what the mysterious force is which moves the loaded car, changes darkness into light, enables friend to talk to friend without reference' to distance, and accomplishes a thousand marvellous things with the ease of a magician. Speculation; has been active as to the probable origin of electrical force, but men of action, philosophers and physicists know almost nothing in regard to it.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 143, 12 June 1903, Page 7
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