CONTENTS
Gryll Grange, Ch. xix
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Author: Peacock Thomas Love (1785-1866)
Year: 1861
Lord Curryfin: Well, then, what do you say to the electric telegraph, by which you converse at the distance of thousands of miles. Even across the Atlantic, as no doubt we shall yet do.
The Reverend Doctor Opimian: I have no wish to expedite communication with the Americans. If we could apply the power of electrical repulsion to preserve us from ever hearing anything more of them, I should think that we had for once derived a benefit from science.
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