St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-08

ments with tinted light. The eccentri
cities of the savant were well known, ant
he was permitted to pursue his course
without remonstrance. His residence
occupied charming slope, which gently
descended to the blue waters of the
Mediterranean, and every window and
skylight was partially glazed with blue
glass-the exact proportion observed
being two-thirds blue and one-third
white. An adjoining arbor, wherein he
purposed to take daily exercise, was also
covered with thin blue muslin, so that he
would be under the uninterrupted infu-
ence of the light during his voluntary &C.
clusion. At the expiration of six months
the experiment warranted him in ex.
tending the field of his observations, and
accordingly Mareschal Guillardet, the
officer in command of Algiers, obtained
for the scientist two Moorish children,
twins, both girls, aged four years.
NJ. Givodan became parent to these
dusky waits, and took them with him
to his hermitage" HERMITAGE" as the
house was called amongsthe French offic-
ers in Algiers. With himself, they were
| kept perpetually under the in
fuence of blue light, and he
conscientiously attended to their mental
and physical developments. At first it
was apparent that the blue light was
productive of an uncomfortable degree
of heat, insomuch that the two G rls were
fretful and restless under its influence.
Notifications were, therefore effected by
using paler blue glass, gradually inten-
styling the hue as acclimation progressed.
When the experiment had been main
tanned for three years M. Givodan had
to record the following extraordinary
results:
"The two girls, then seven years of
age, were full grown, perfectly developed
women. The mental powers were equally
remarkable. They had acquired all the
ordinary branches of education with
phenomenal rapidity, while even the
abstruse problems of pure mathematics
presented none of the ordinary difficult
ties. Latin and Greek we're apparently
as easy as their mother tongue, and The
sublime calculations of astronomy
seemed to them absurdly simple"
There was an extension or enlargement
OF the spiritual sensibility lkewiss.
They had perceptions unknown to ord
nary humanity, and seemed exalted toa
more exalted-a more supernatural pla1e.
The same effects, though differing in "a
degree, were experienced by the pp-
fessor himself. At certain times be vas
endowed with physical power that vas
absolutely tremendous. This foce
was manifested in the nerve en-
tiers: or associated Herewith, md |
was constantly subjective fore.
He found also that the blue ltht |
exercised peculiar influence upon the
nervoussystem, and that it established a
sympathetic relation between his WIN
organism and the vast world of uncga-
nized matter. He was very much ,uz-
Zled to account for these abnorma re.
suits as observed in himself and his ,om>
panions; but during the subsequent
years more astounding developmentswere
to follow. Just as General Pleasonta has
demonstrated that animal and vegetable
life are prodigiously intensified b the
action Of the blue light, SO Mr.. Giodan
has proved that the blended rays tvolve
the odic force and the odic visia. In
point of fact, the whole body of MS res
corded phenomena offers to the intelligent
man new view of man and his reations
to the sphere in which he lives. nd at
the same time furnish key to sove the
deepest mysteries of human mature and
its spiritual environment. al the
mysterious physical manifestations pro-
duced by the Fox sisters, of Angeli-
que Cortin, as observed, tnvesti-
gated and reported Jpn by '
Arago land Gonjon, of Federika &
Haufe, as described by Professo Kerner
ana many others, we'll known hentists,
were produced by M. Givedai by the |
mere exercise of the will. Articles,
thousands of pounds in weight, nder the
spell of his volition, rose like feathers
and were poised in the air. Oh of the
Moorish sisters stroked a spanl on the y
head, and it So ddenly expisd, as if t
struck by lightning. By moon of M. h
Givodan's arm, competentIdomesti h
was projected over a hundred feet and =
was seriously injured. Tn poit of fact, 4
the physical manifestations 'ead like a
5ales from the /" Arabian nightp' and yet
hey are positively credible aseompared |;
With the astounding psychological re- i,
Iults. :
Were it net patent to everybody that
MODERN science has achieve the most +
conquests and outgipped the =:
widest flights at even the rpst prolific =
Imagination, the present |chrenicler -
night we'll shrink from annancing dis. =,
overies that threaten to rolutionize Al
he world and to terrify socig out of it's =,
'ropriety. r
The Moorish twin sister had been ~
famed by Professor de Civilian respec. '"