Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-26

tors IN science, politics and religion
Does il then follow that these are hum
ugs? Coin can be counterfeited. deyo-
ton initiated, and the domain of magic
covers all phenomena. Is there, then,
nothing real? Is nature and human ex-
istence one gigantic system of coliusion,
got up by somebody, and played OF on
everybody?
The speaker treated at some length,
upon the anatomy of the human eye
ridiculed the idea Of a person seeing from
the back of the bead, soles of the leei,
&c, He was probably not aware that
such experiments are daily being made
at the Medical College at Cincinnati.-
Sealed packages ale read and characters
delinea'ed, under circumstances that rem
der collusion impossible. met one Of
the subjects who had been with Profes
sor Buchanan, while on a visi- TO Shaker
| Village. He there read various docu-
menis which l chanced to have in my
/ pocket, by simply placing them on his
forehead; not their language however,
but their correct import. He told me
the philosophy of The science, and have
since experimental in 1t with success
proportionate to my experience.
l will now harmonize the philosophy
of clairvoyance with the speakers own
hypothesis, the anatomy of the senses
and the known laws of electricity.
The speaker, no doubt, showed to the
entire satisfaction of all, that every. sense
resolved itself into fee.ing-that each
nerve was a telegraph whose Office was
to convey outward impressions to inward
consciousness--the optics conveying sha-
dows-the auditory vibrations and the
others, more direct impressions of the
thing ITSELF Now these nerves, to be
telegraphic, must be electrically charged.
And This subtle medium, which thus
seems to act as the agent of mind, passes
TO and fro through the most solid SUBJ
stances. Skull and flesh are no barriers,
and from its known tendency, We must
conclude that i. seeks tibrouS rather than
globular forms, and that its Office is to
produce sympathetic relations between
Two points or objects which it connects.
Could sufficient number of It's tibres be
held in suspension between two given
points, the gross telegraph machine now
in use, could be worked without the will
as well as with ii. In fact, the expert
ment of projecting electric auries, and
holding them in suspension for this pur-
pose, has already been tried with sue
cess, and the operations of mind are more
nice than those of gross matter. If then,
the electric fibre is the telegraph, where
are they not to be found? The entire at
mosphere, the whole Universe itself. is
a complicate system Of lines. Every sun
ray that wanders in space, shoot direct
or glance from object to objects tel
egraph.
will now extend his own position rel.
alive to natural light. The sun rays de-
scending, are relrac:ed from the object
to the nerve of the eye, thus forming a
perfect telegraph from the object to the
mind. If, then, simple electric connec-
ton of the mind with the object, produ
ces light, why may not any or all of the
thousand nerves and fbres of the human
system, under certain conditions of mind
and body, become poin 5 Of contact. con
veying impressions to The grand feeler of
the mind? The reader VIII ask. why
was the eye formed? By an all wise
provision, the human soul instinctively
repels more intimate connection with
surrounding objects. than that which
comes, sof;ened and modified, through
the senses. The reason Of this is appar-
ent. 1t prevents too intimate contact
with whatever is offensive, giving its pos.
SCISSOR a chance to break off its connec
tions at will. and prevent the spread of
mental eTidemics through sympathetic
action of mind direct on mind. And So
long as the physical powers are strong,
and operate normally, the sensitive prin-
ciple is safe in lis citadel. But when, Ell
ther by disease or strong desire, this in
stinct is overcome. or the bull work of
its defence broken down, then the i'm
pressions of events which transpire, tho
far distant, are pictured on the mind with
wonderful d:stinctness; as in cases OF
brilliant> catalepsy, when the mind is
acute and towering, and the constitution
al fires burn low, the mind daguerreo-
types with terrible dis,inctness the dying
scene Of friend, the burning ofan ocean
steamer, the coming Of q storm, or the
OF town; in fact, any thing
that is in any way impressive. The sci
eniiiic and medical journals of the day
team with accounts of this kind, which,
by the way, his theory of eolIusion will
not cover, which too, nationally solves
many Of the wonderful phenomena Of
modern spiri.ualism, which, for lack OF a
sufficiently comprehensive theory, he was
forced to pass without notice.