Who shall say what may, or may not, be the influence of this agent upon the health and longevity of man

Electricity is a germ destroyer, and as all disease, more or less, has been shewn to have its origin in these pestilent poisons of air and filth, and contamination, common to civilization we shall find, no doubt, a heroic rem edy in electricity. Somebody, of scientific renown, recently ventured to prophesy that in a century's time, there will be no such thing as disease,

How the coming race will combat ! that dilemma, in view of the problem of a pressure of population, it is hard i to conjecture; very likely however, the ways and means of existence will have been so scientifically simplified that the earth will bear, with care, greater burdens than she now groans under. And the question of inconven ient longevity may meet with remed ies which, to our uncultivated sense of morality, would be considered bar barous and unlawful; although we manage, by our neglect and stupidity, to limit human life quite as criminal ly, as if we smothered the infants who die in such appalling numbers, and pole-axed the aged paupers we suffer to starve.
