Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-24
COMMUNICATION.

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Messrs. EDrroRs Professor FAnADAY, in his article
on the moving table, refers the reader TO article Of
Dr. Carpenters published in 1882 on the laws Of sug-
gestion Now, it 50 happens that am agais prepared
to make claim Of priority of discovery this point.
In the summer Of 1851 published number Of articles
your paper in which this law Of suggestion is set forth
and applied law that is at the bottom Of the moving
table, of nesmersm, and many of the most wonderful
manifestations. wrote as follows:
81 will write something the effects which forms
cause on animal nature in its different organizations
They impress alike in the first instance that is, the seI
sations which the different forms produce are OF hky
character in all animals produces curve sem
sa.ion and straight line straight sensation, and
point sensation Of piercing and the same law g0vernS
IN regard to all the figures composed Of these curves
Is then curve in the first instance to all and sraighs
nne straight line to all and point point to all in
he impression they make and the sensation they cause,
just as impressed upon clay When pressed upon the
nerves OF the eye through the medium Of subtitle fluid
they cause motion, in the opinion Of DR.. Darwin and
Of course agtate the whole system Of the animal in
fact the acinism itself must cause motion shall
safely take the position that the images upon the eve
cause notion and that this motion Of the character
of the form impressed upon the eye and that the whole
muscular system is moved in the same character of FORM
We see it exemplifed in tho Of sounds The mo-
tons OF the body are according to the lines Of sound
that upon the ear MS In the Of dancing to music
What is called the animal system imparts its motion to
the perceptve and the perceptve the reflective by
nervous communication between them. The forms Of
satons Of themselves these sensations received by
the perceptive system, and dealt with categoricaly.
Through it their individuality, their size their shape,
their COLOR their weight their time, their sound their
locality and their relations ascertaincd and named
and arranged They transmitted to the reflections
where they stored and used by for building up
new worlds for analysis. When the external world
mpresses it sensations Of its FORMS and there
is motion of the animal system When the intellect
reflects these FORMS those that composed of them,
those that modified of Them upon the external
iS again n mr. in tho al
through which the forms first received When
the intellect reforms color the eye is affected in the
same when the color forms that caused the
sensation are impressed upon it, 1t is easily proved by
experiment.; any individual may convince himself Let
him imagine color, and he will feel change, melton
in his eye, and he thinks of things, large small,
the pupil dates contracts accordingly; even the
mouth assumes forms according to thoughts when
matters of tastes Let him imagine odor and he win
feel motion of the nose.
There is, them motion from direct impression, and
there is motion from reflected impression, and these
motions Of the character and there is notion
from the ntcligences that composed of the direct
impressions when these inteligences reflected and
these motions the various lines of expression upon
the face and the gestures of the body well the
rous sounds of the voice. Impression expressions
and reflection causes expression and where the impress
sion is the the reflection, find the char
acter of lines Of expression But the expression which
impression may cause is oftentimes modified stifed
by reflections that is, they become part Of i'm
preston in the intellect and instead Of expression Of
anger upon the face that of smile takes place.
rangement of lines takes place in the intellect and this
new arrangement is reflected in expression"
afterwards, in an article published in your paper
applied this philosophy account for mesmerc effects.
will here extract portion of that article:
In this condition the are partially asleep and
cannot fully appreciate the external world and the
thory Of the operator influences the mesmerized through
their intellect-not affected by seep-to reflect upon
their whatever he pleases and these reflex i'm
ressons being taken for the impressions the external
objects upon the Senses they imagine pain in their limbs
or see various shapes that not before them &C. That
may be fully understood by all of my readers win state
that Psychologists say have aerent nerves. that is,
nerves that run from the surface Of system to the
brain, through which we nre made acquainted with the
external world, and which called sometimes nerves
of sensation, and aerent running from the
brain through which the motion Of affect
ed by external Impressions and the motions of our will
through our intellect The first motions may be
called automatic they follow Immediately the impress
sons that are made upon the external senses and in
character with these impressions. The second set of
motions are rejected from the intellect and may be call
ed reflex motions" t
have made out my claims fatter myself to seien-
fc property used by Professor Farady and Dr. Carpen
ter the the greatest electrician the other the most
popular physiological writer in the world SHALL while
am on this subject, tax your patience Nttle longer
while make out in brief manner my claims against
Dr. Brewster and Dr. Hay, the former the head of Bri
fish science Of the natural world and the latter the most
profound and distinguished writer on iEsthetics
In ls49 published, through your paper, an article
pointing out the faaces of the Photographic Art and
hence the necessity for the Bnocular Microscope Dr.
Brewster has lately pubshed series Of experiments
confirm my theory and illustrations without any acknow
ledgment of what had published in every great city m
Great Britain.
Dr. Hay published avery costly work the head using
diagram of mine which had used in my public lectures
FIVE years before.
should not have prosecuted these claims against these
eminent English gentlemen at this time but fox the fact
that Lieut. Maury has just been treated by TIN Maxor
Liverpool with much injustice in regard To his great
discoveries. In conclusion, allow to wrta that feel
happy that some Of the many points upon which have
had the use Of valuable paper for the last -four years
have become points great interest with the
men, although OF the time they published thew an
peared no doubt to very many to be unimportant. a
J. F. @. MITTAG. 4
CHARLOTTE, AUGUsr 10, 1853
The Norfolk News" records the following successful
attempt to extngush fire in vessels hold by the intro
luction Of carbonic acid gas:
"The schooner l.. d. Hart having board n cargo OF
line discovered be ERE from spontaneous conbus
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