Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Oliver W Holmes Atlantic Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Electricity, Railways, Creation, Anti-Scientism

    Extracts Holmes's claim that even in this 'age of cynicism' the 'form of cosmic vitality which we call electricity' should induce 'reverence'. Holmes comments, 'How near the mystic effluence of mechanical energy brings us to the divine source of all power and motion!'. He also describes 'electric tramcar[s]' as 'mighty caravans' powered by a 'mystic impulse'.