This force is not, like steam or electricity, fraught with danger in certain states to those who use it; for, after the molecular mass of the vessel has been fitted to the conditions required, its control becomes of such a nature that seemingly a star might as soon go astray, and be lost to the universe, as for the aerial ship to meet with an accident, unless its speed was pushed to that point where gravity resumes its control. In fact, Keely asserts that there is no known force so safe to use as the polar terrestrial force, for when the celestial and terrestrial conditions are once set up, they remain for ever; perpetual molecular action the result.
In using the word celestial, Keely refers to the air, in the same sense that terrestrial refers to the earth.
Wide through the waste of ether, sun and star
All linked by harmony, which is the chain
That binds to earth the orbs that wheel afar
Through the blue fields of Nature’s wide domain.
Percival.
From the New York Home Journal.
THE SONG OF THE CARBONS.[2]
A weird, sweet melody, faint and far,