I remember an instance in my own experience. There was a subject to
which I had given some years of off-and-on study. I felt that at least
the facts had been accumulated. All that remained was to deduce the
truth from these facts. But an editorial on this subject in a notable
daily paper brought out a salient fact which none of the books had
mentioned, and yet which, when one's attention was called to it, was
so apparent that it really ought to have suggested itself. Yet all the
speeches of the specialists on this subject, and all of the volumes,
had failed to note it.
Some vigorous young mind on that paper had discovered it in studying
the elementary factors of the problem itself. But this is digression.
I am simply calling your attention to the fact that there are
opportunities for you to be greater in the world of journalism than
Greeley, or Raymond, or Bennett, or Bowles, or Dana, or any of the
extraordinary men that have illumined the whole science of journalism
by their intellect, accomplishments, and character.
Electricity is a mysterious force which excites not only all the
speculation but all the mysticism in man. I contemplate its
manifestations--equally deadly and vital--with feelings of wonder and
awe.
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