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.....The white corpuscles have no use whatever for the heart or lungs, he (Tesla) said. They do not need the air of the latter or the propelling power of the former. Their power of locomotion is within themselves; as you are already aware, they go with the stream, or against it, at their pleasure. No doubt, they will continue to use the circulatory system as the passage of their more rapid transit in moving about on their mission. They have no use for the action of the heart, and it has ceased to throb. The cavities of the heart, however, will no doubt, remain, and the new blood will flow through them, as they are a part of the circulatory system; the valves, from disuse, will disappear. The white corpuscles have ever been wholly independent of the function of both the lungs and heart.

.....The digestive organs will disappear?
I suggested.

.....Most assuredly, he (Tesla) replied, without hesitation. They will have no function and will cease to exist. Where the function of an organ is gone, the organ itself will in time disappear. Man's intellectual development, alone, has in time removed the caudal appendage (on an animal, its tail, as in a monkey), and likewise, the muscles of the ear.

.....And the lungs? I asked.
.....Will also disappear, was the answer.

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.....But what will take their place? I inquired.

..... That is hard to say, was the reply, but that these intelligent little fellows will settle that problem wisely, I have no doubt. My judgment is, that the lungs, stomach and intestines will be displaced by strong muscular formation, that will give durability and great strength to the body. The spleen, surrounded by a strong coat of muscles, may remain. It is situated to the left of the stomach, between it and the diaphragm. We know that the white corpuscles have ever made it their home, and presume they will retain it for some use they may have for it.

..... And the voice? I said; there being no lungs, how will we talk?

..... Better than we do now, he began. Do you suppose that the intelligence vested in the entities of the human body, in our present crude form, which now finds a way to see, to hear, to smell and to talk, and that in our higher sphere a greater intelligence would be baffled? No. As intelligence will be infinitely greater so wil the voice be an improvement on the past. Some people, now, have monotonous and disagreeable voices; under the new order of things all voices will be in harmony with the happiness of the new creation. The desire to express one's thoughts is like seeing and hearing, a natural function of our senses; and, the system provides for it ~ the intellectual entities shape themselves to produce sound, seeing, hearing, and all that is to provide the organism with protection and the pleasure of existence. In my judgment, there will be an air chamber left in the chest, in the top of the lungs, probably, and the larynx,

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and vocal cords, will remain as will the mouth, with the function of expressing our ideas.

..... And the diaphragm? I said. It is necessary as a sounding-board as it were, for the voice?

..... But professor, I said, your opinion is news, and the world is literally on its tip-toes, waiting to hear every word that comes from here! At least, make a guess; give me what you think about it!

..... He paused a moment and then said:

..... And, when will this new child reach manhood?
When will it stop growing? How large will he be? I asked.

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..... Another will form higher up, he replied; and, for that matter, the new muscular system in the body, of which I have spoken, may so re-enforce the vocal organs as to give it greater power, incomparably greater than at present; and, tuned to the infinite delight of an infinitely happy being, it will have more melody than is now to be conceived of.

..... Let us wait and see, he replied smilingly.

..... I think the little living intellectual entities that construct this thing we call man, as we are now, supremely intellectual and happy in their new creation, these corpuscles, or entities, will take care of that question. They can be absolutely trusted. Even in our present condition we do not rely on them enough.
So many of our people had learned to mope and think ill of their physical condition, they had encouraged disintegration. We should assume a repose that trusts to the intellectuality of our systems; and, if our people had done so, the white corpuscles would have multiplied and more nearly succeeded in looking after our welfare.

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..... With the exceptions you have named, I suggested, there will be no other changes in the physical structure?

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..... Probably, replied the professor, there will
be no other changes. He paused, however, and, looking upward, as if reflecting, continued:

I have digressed. You wanted to know my opinion as to the future growth of the new man. I believe Vivian Anson will be a model for the new race; that he will grow to that size which will make the most compact and useful size, for the utility of an organism such as his will be, and then of its own volition that organism will stop growing. The same intelligence that controls in other things will control in that; and the intelligence I refer to, is, in the living intellectual entities composing the boy. A man building a house knows the size wanted and so will these intellectual entities know the size desirable for the creation they are constructing.

..... Of the senses, taste will be eliminated, of course. The others will become more acute. We will see better and hear better; and there will be no such thing as blindness or deafness or impairment of the senses. If an eye is knocked out these little intellectual entities, unembarrassed, will, in a few days, construct another. As we are constructed, now, their utility is obstructed, animalized, blunted; and, yet, the skin, if cut, is healed and the white corpuscles manage in most cases to rebuild. In the new state they will do those things which they are not now able to perform.

..... The substance of this interview
of this medical reporter with Prof. Tesla, is, thus given at length, and will be recognized,
in view of subsequent developments,

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as coming very close to what transpired. Professor Tesla, however, sanguine as he was, did not go far enough nor comprehend the scope of that infinite intelligence in eliminating death by accident, or drowning, or other causes. He may have tried to be a little conservative, or hesitated to say too much in advacne of developments.

.....The child Vivian continued to grow. At the age of two months it began to try to talk, and two months later had familiarized itself sufficiently with the words used in its presence to make itself understood. From this time on he advanced rapidly, and at the age of two years had been taught to read, at three years of age comprehended the whole story of his birth, the past history of the world, and,
that he was the first born child
of the new civilixation

..... At birth he had weighed seven pounds; at three months; twelve pounds; at twelve months, thirty pounds; at two years, fifty pounds; at three years,

..... Other imaginations, more vivid, however, were at work. The Chicago Tribune on January 1, 1905, printed a page on the possibilities of the future. Among other things it foresaw what has since happened, in the easy discovery of the north pole by reason of our imperviousness to cold; the virtual banishment of fire from the Earth; the conversion of all nature into beautiful homes, imbedded in flower gardens; the abandonment of labor in the tilling of fields, or marketing, or cooking. It described the time to come, when people, made perfect, would be active and energetic, but restful and happy ~ universal happiness ~ and much more did this paper conjecture that has since come to pass.

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sixty-seven pounds; at four years, eighty-one pounds; at five years, ninety-two pounds; at six years, 101 pounds; at seven years, 110 pounds; at eight years, 118 pounds; at nine years, 126 pounds; at ten years, 134 pounds; at eleven years, 142 pounds; at twelve years, 150 pounds; at thirteen years, 157 pounds; at fourteen years, 163 pounds; at fifteen years, 169 pounds; at sixteen years, 175 pounds; at seventeen years, 181 pounds; at eighteen years, 186 pounds; at nineteen years, 191 pounds; at twenty years, 194 pounds; at twenty-one years, 197 pounds; at twenty-two years, 199 pounds; at twenty-three years, 201 pounds, and thereafter ceased to grow. After that time, the plasma, serum, or elixir, that the system absorbed, was apparently, only to replace the loss from growth of the hair and nails and friction of the skin.

..... In form he was, produced, a model.
It might be said of him, that nature had done its best; tall and finely proportioned, courteous and pleasant of manners; six feet four inches in height, slender of built, muscular and strong; his skin the whiteness of pearl; his eyes soft blue, expressing infinite intelligence, contentment, power, self-confidence and happiness. The first of the new race, he grew from infancy to perfect manhood the product of infinite wisdom!

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