Digital heart book

No blood is let for our refreshment and no
minutest creature is pursued and slain to appease the appetite of its
stronger neighbor."
"Does this condition extend even to the fish of the sea?" inquired the
doctor.
"Even to the fish of the sea," answered the Martian.
"Now that you discover," he continued, "what improvement has been wrought
in the lower animals, you can understand that their comfort is an object
of our solicitude, and that we take great pleasure in knowing that they
are relieved from all hard labor."
"But you haven't told us," said I, "what is the source of the power that
does all your work."
"Let me ask," replied Thorwald, "if you have begun to use electricity
yet?"
"Yes," I answered, "we are trying to harness it, but it is still far from
obedient to us."
"I perceive," said our friend, "from this and other things you have told
me, that your development is going on in about the order which has
prevailed on Mars. Do not be discouraged in your efforts to bring that
mysterious and wonderful agent, electricity, into complete subjection.


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