They develop electricity and give electrical discharges.'" "Well!" said Zara.
"You say 'Well!' as if you did not know!" I exclaimed half-angrily, half-laughingly.

"These fish have helped me to understand a great deal, I assure you.

Your brother must have discovered the seed or commencement of electrical organs like those described, in the human body; and he has cultivated them in you and in himself, and has brought them to a high state of perfection.

He has cultivated them in Raffaello Cellini, and he is beginning to cultivate them in me, and I hope most sincerely he will succeed.

I think his theory is a magnificent one!" Zara gazed seriously at me, and her large eyes seemed to grow darker with the intensity of her thought.
"Supposing you had reasoned out the matter correctly," she said--"and I will not deny that you have done a great deal towards the comprehension of it--have you no fear?
do you not include some drawbacks in even Casimir's learning such a secret, and being able to cultivate and educate such a deadly force as that of electricity in the human being ?" "If it is deadly, it is also life-giving," I answered.