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and whoever can first map it out will go far toward discovering the tidings of good and evil." of electricity, speech dashes through space and swift as lightning bears telephone. Artists may come who will portray the marvel of the wires in two days, who could have foreseen the steel leviathans, one-sixth of secret of telephony. a mile in length, that can in the same time cut the Atlantic Ocean in admitted the telephone and the telegraph to the world of art. He has foreseen the massive structure of the Bell System, built up by half the that quiver with electrified words, and the romance of the switchboards ether of space! Here is an Eldorado for the scientists of the future, When Fulton's tiny tea-kettle of a boat steamed up the Hudson to Albany halves? And when Bell stood in a dingy workshop in Boston and heard first little line of wire around the Speedwell Iron Works, who could But these random guesses as to the future of the telephone may fall far that tremble with the secrets of a great city. Already Puvis de and with the following inscription underneath: "By the wondrous agency Fact has outrun Fancy. When Morse, for instance, was tacking up his have foreseen two hundred and fifty thousand miles of submarine cables, telephones of the world, and by the investment of more actual capital by which the very oceans are all aquiver with the news of the world? Some day--who knows?--there may come the poetry and grand opera of the embodied them as two flying figures, poised above the electric wires, Chavannes, by one of his superb panels in the Boston Library, has short of what the reality will be. In these dazzling days it is idle to the clang of a clock-spring come over an electric wire, who could have predict. The inventor has everywhere put the prophet out of business.

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