The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-11

the sensation OF feeling hrs wandering
eye passing over me. then turn from me
and rirclc about the ceiling, seeking
some dark corner of the room to fix it.
self upon. as If he wanted To hide his
awful gaze As well as his awful hands
stammered out: why you never
told me this before"
lie went on:
''Do / ever tell anybody? Listen
This evening | cannot keep my secret.
and would rather You should know
everything. Besides, you might be able
to siiccor me-"
''Do You know what magnetism is?
No. Nobody knows what it is. But
its existence is fully established; its
manifestations are recognized; the doc
tors themselves practice it; one OF the
most illustrious, NJ. Charcot, processes
it. Therefore there is no doubt that it
exists.
"A mana being has the frightful
AMI incomprelensiblc power of com
pelling another being. by mere force of
will, to sleep. and of robbing him while
so asleep Of his thought. of his soul.
just ms one might steal u purse. He
steals his thought-that is to say, his soul
the sanctuary, the secret Of the Me
the soul. that deep of being supposed
to he imponetrable, unfathomable-thc
soul which is the ASYLUM of fancies that
aarcs not avow, of all hidden things, Of
all loved. Of all that one desires to con-
ccal from other human beings; and he
tears it open-hc violates it-ho exhibits
it nakeilv-he filings it to the public!
Is it not atrocious. wicked, infamous!
"Why how can this he done? Does
anybody know? Why, what can any
body know about it? All is mystery.
We have no means of communicating
with other objects save orr miserable
senses INCOMPLETE, iniirm. SO feeble
that they have scarcely power enough
to discern what is round about lis. All
is mystery. Think of music, for exam
pie; that divine art-that art whi,h
troubles the soul, earliest il away, intox-
icltcs it, maldens it-what is the music?
Nothing.
"Iou do not understand me? Listen!
Two bodies strike against each other.
The air vibrates. Its vibrations are
more or less numerous. more or less
rapid. more or less powerful, according
w 'hc ""'". VI VIZ H'o'N' w" '"' =,
OF us mas III MS oil. hef ear me smau
skin which receives tnese aeriai vipra'
tons anu transmits them 10 the orain
in the form of sound. Fancy a glass of
water turning into wine III your
mouth. The tympanum accomplishes
this Incredible metamorphosis-this
miraculous change of motion into sound.
See!
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arc surroundeJ Inv many ether THINGS
tho evidence Of which we will never he
allie TO even suspect. sim,lv because we
IocL thoso sense organs which could re-
val ,bom 20 ms
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in ia sncctraI neichborhool-we can
oniv catcb a fatal GLIMPSE of the new
secret Of noture-Leca,,se the natural
;nstrumept of -evelation does not exist
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