United States or Martinique ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In like manner does a knowledge, purely theoretical, of the laws of electricity prevent that waste of time in gropings and dreams of which the story of science and the long human struggle in all ages and in all departments is full. Finally, I would, if possible dispell all ideas of strangeness and mystery and semi-miracle as connected with electrical phenomena.
The fact seems strange only because steam-power is so prominent a fact with ourselves. The ages that intervened were, as a whole, times of the densest superstition. The human mind was active, but it was entirely occupied with miracle and semi-miracle; in astrology, magic and alchemy; in trying to find the key to the supernatural.
Word Of The Day