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THE AGE OF SCIENCE.
A NEWSPAPER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
THE AGE OF SCIENCE
The greatest discovery ever achieved by man isbeyond all question that which it is now our privilegeto announce, namely, that of the new ProspectiveTelegraph. By this truly wonderful invention(exquisitely simple in its machinery, yet of surpassingpower) the obstacle of Time is as effectuallyconquered as that of Space has been for the lastgeneration by the Electric Telegraph; and futureyears—even, it is anticipated, future centuries—willbe made to respond to our call as promptlyand completely as do now the uttermost parts ofthe earth wherewith the magic wire has placed usin communication.
For obvious reasons the particulars of this mostmarvellous invention, and the name of its author,must be withheld from the public till the patentsbe made out, and the enormous profits which mustaccrue from its application be secured to the Company4which is invited to undertake to work it (withlimited liability). We are only permitted by specialfavour to hint that the natural Force relied on to setthe machinery in action is neither Electric, Magnetic,nor Galvanic; nor yet any combination of these; butthat other great correlated imponderable agency, whoseexistence has been for some time suspected by manyintelligent inquirers, called the Psychic Force, whoselaws of action it has been reserved for this new andgreater Wheatstone to develop and apply to practicalutility. That no scepticism may linger in theminds of our readers, we desire to add that we havebeen gratified by the actual inspection of severalshort fragments forestalled by this invaluable processfrom the press of the next fifty, eighty, and onehundred and thirty years respectively; and have atthis moment in our hands a complete transcript(the most important document of the series) of anewspaper bearing date January 1st, 1977, photographedin a very beautiful manner by the machi