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At sharp eleven, a large clock over the fireplace, with a round face like that of our podgy preceptor, telling the time, Dr Hellyer pushed back his chair as a sign that our morning studies were over; and the boys then all trooped out into the playground for an hour, coming back again punctually at twelve to dinner in the re-transformed room, at the summons of the inveterate gong.

This theory supposes that all thought is accompanied by nervous undulations, which are carried to the surface of the body, there setting the ether in vibration; and this, in turn, impinges upon the periphery of another person, particularly sensitive to receive them, and by him re-transformed into nervous currents into thought!

Thought is transformed; and may be re-transformed, in another organism which supplies the necessary conditions. Thought may be restored. We have now reached, from a purely physiological standpoint, a position which I desired to reach before I advance the final part of the theory which may at first sight appear somewhat fantastic.

The attempt was to be made from the high-power sending station in the mountains of West North America. Our observatory was there; and the only one of its kind on the Earth. It was equipped to send a radio voice audibly to every part of the Earth; and by helio, also to Mars and Venus, there to be re-transformed from light to sound and heard throughout those other worlds.

"Hope of what, sir?" "Of my final re-transformation from India-rubber back to flesh?" "Decidedly he has had too much wine," I thought; and I did not know what answer to make to his queer question: how could I tell whether he was capable of being re-transformed?

His earthly home has been so small and cosy and restricted, he has been taken such tender care of the faithful have fallen at his feet in such adoring thousands, and now away from all this warmth and light and incense, and colour of pictures and stained-glass windows, and white statuary and purple velvets, and golden-fringed palanquins, now out into the cold he must go! out into the darkness and mystery and silence! where all the former generations of the world, immense and endless, and all the old religions, are huddled away in the mist of the mouldered past! out into the thick blackness, where maybe the fiery heads of Bel and the Dragon may lift themselves upward and leer at him! or he may meet the frightful menace of some monstrous Mexican deity, once worshipped with the rites of blood! out out into the unknown, unimaginable Amazement must the poor naked Soul go shuddering on the blast of death, to face he truly knows not what! but possibly he has such a pitiful blind trust in good, that he may be re-transformed into some pleasant living consciousness that shall be more agreeable even than that of Pope of Rome!

The generator D is driven by mechanical energy from any convenient source, and transforms it into electric energy, which flows through the circuit in the direction of the arrows, and, in traversing the motor M, is re-transformed into mechanical energy.

This was a penitentiary, but, long ago added to the arsenal, it has been re-transformed to a court-room and jail, and in its third, or uppermost story, the Military Commission is sitting.

Rising to his feet with an aching back, he stretched body and limbs, and felt himself restored to his senses, as though re-transformed from a whipped hound into a human being doomed to feel the chastisement, not as bodily pain, but as profound humiliation. "Why," he asked himself, "did I not go to the window while it was still open? Why did I not leap over the sill?