THE AGE OF SCIENCE. _A NEWSPAPER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY._ BY MERLIN NOSTRADAMUS. “Forerun thy time, thy peers, and let Thy feet, milleniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge dreamed not yet: · · · · · Thou hast not gained a real height, Nor art thou nearer to the light.” _Two Voices._ [Illustration] _LONDON_: WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO., 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C. THE AGE OF SCIENCE The greatest discovery ever achieved by man is beyond all question that which it is now our privilege to announce, namely, that of the new PROSPECTIVE TELEGRAPH. By this truly wonderful invention (exquisitely simple in its machinery, yet of surpassing power) the obstacle of _Time_ is as effectually conquered as that of _Space_ has been for the last generation by the Electric Telegraph; and future years—even, it is anticipated, future centuries—will be made to respond to our call as promptly and completely as do now the uttermost parts of the earth wherewith the magic wire has placed us in communication. For obvious reasons the particulars of this most marvellous invention, and the name of its author, must be withheld from the public till the patents be made out, and the enormous profits which must accrue from its application be secured to the Company which is invited to undertake to work it (with limited liability). We are only permitted by special favour to hint that the natural Force relied on to set the machinery in action is neither Electric, Magnetic, nor Galvanic; nor yet any combination of these; but that other great correlated imponderable agency, whose existence has been for some time suspected by many intelligent inquirers, called the _Psychic Force_, whose laws of action it has been reserved for this new and greater WHEATSTONE to develop and apply to practical utility. That no scepticism may linger in the minds of our readers, we desire to add that we have been gratified by the actual inspection of several short fragments forestalled by this invaluable process from the press of the next fifty, eighty, and one hundred and thirty years respectively; and have at this moment in our hands a complete transcript (the most important document of the series) of a newspaper bearing date January 1st, 1977, photographed in a very beautiful manner by the machine upon an enormous sheet of paper, which was found needful to contain the type in the most compressed form. As the printed matter of this gigantic periodical equals at least in bulk the whole of Gibbon’s History, or Mr.