The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
THE SEVENTH SENSE.

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tered themselves that they had discovered
all the primary elements of substances
but time has shown how very imperfect
their knowledge was. The chemist of the
last generation, did he live to-day, would
see his elements proven compound in
stead of simple, and elements to him I'M
known revealed to the knowledge of scien-
lists Our grandfathers, good easy souls,
believed man possessed but five senses,
and indeed our fathers, perhaps, thought
the same; though they may have heard
rumors of a sixth sense, a sort of intuition,
mysterious, half prophetic gift set down
as a sense; but now we have passed that
sixth sense, which appears to be like some
primary CLEMENT of our olden time chem
lists, it turns out to be compound in its ma
ture instead of simple, and hence capable OF
division, and therefore, too, the seventh
sense.
Dr. WILLIAM NJ. MCLAURY, only few
days ago, read paper of great interest on
this subject before meeting of the Aca-
deny of Anthropology. The doctor follows
the classification Of the senses made by Sir
WILLIAM THOMPSON, who rates the sixth
sense as the ''sense of temperature, - which
enables men and animals to detect the ap-
proach of storms even before they are indi-
Gated by the barometer. The sense of tenn
perature is placed next to that Of touch
The seventh, or magnetic sense, is des-
cribed as that faculty which enables birds
and animals to find their homes from long
to it also, according to DR..
MCLAURY, may be RELOCATED all the appe
tites. Hunger" says the doctor, ''has no
more to do with the sense Of touch than
with sight or hearing" The sensations pro-
duced by appetite are the most intense that
is capable of receiving,
and they produce an indelible i'm
preston on the mind and char
acter Of the individual. He further
this magnetic sense as the one in
direct relation and contact with the intel
lectual and reasoning faculties; and places
under its control also the phenomenon of
sympathy; that is, if one sees a person in
iured he feels by sympathy a sense of in
jury to the same part of his own body. In
this connection the doctor cites a case of an
aged couple who manifested all the symp-
toms of drowning without being near
water. A short time afterward the body of
their son was brought to them. He had
been drowned at the time of their suffer
ing. Many Of the phenomena of sleep are
associated with this magnetic sense. Som
nambulists walk, talk, read and write, and
many are the instances where difficult
problems have been solved in sleep which
puzzled the mental powers in waking
suit of this magnetic sense; at least they
result from it in some instances. In this
connection the investigations Of HARLOW
GALE are interesting.
Mr.. GALE is a postgraduate student at
Yale College, and the local agent of the
American Society for Psychical Research.
For more than year he has been making
investigations among the students Of coinci-
dences between real events and dreams or
hallucinations. The society of which
Mr.. GALE is the agent, was formed
in 1887 with headquarters at Bos-
ton. The members believe that the
coincidence of dreams and Incl
dents is caused by the transference or in
terchange of mind between the persons
affected by the incident and the dreamer,
and they are attempting to theorize on the
connecting link. During the one year of
his labor Mr. GALE received about one
thousand answers to his inquiries; thirteen
per cent. of the persons interviewed had
dreams or Authorizations of remarkable
vividness, and Of these six had conceded
with actual occurrences. Most Of the cases
were of painful incidents which substan-
tiates the idea that trouble is the strongest
bond between kindred minds. Among
other cases MIR. GALE relates as
an illustration the case of an
academic student who has brother in a
government position on an island off the
coast of China:
1.-THE student wildly dreamed that his
brother was attacked by the natives.
Shortly afterward he received a cablegram
that his brother had taken part in suppress
ing native instruction and was severely
wounded. The details received later show
that the facts were Just as the student had
dreamed"
Another case he relates as follows:
"a theological student testified that he
had been greatly impressed by dream that
a friend had fallen and shot himself while
out hunting and the next morning he re-
ceived dispatch that the person Of whom
he dreamed had been killed in exactly those
circumstances.
Another case in Mr.. GALES collection is
the following:
"a husband and wife in a manufacturing
town in Connecticut suddenly disappeared
and nothing was known of their where
abouts. After time the wife's mother ar
rived at the village. She had not known of
her daughters disappearance, but had
dreamed that the young woman had been
drowned by her husband and buried in a
secluded part of the woods. She prevailed
on the village officers to accompany her to
the spot, and there the buried body was
found. The time of the dream conceded
with the time of disappearance, and though
the husband could not be convicted on such
evidence, public sentiment found him
guilty"
Whether these things result from the
possession of a seventh sense or not, they
certainly remind US that there are more
things in heaven and earth than up to date
have ever been explained by mans philo-
sophy; and yet we see philosophy on their
track, and though the beast is slow Of foot,
still given the time he may overtake these
things; he may track to the source and
explain what now seems inexplicable-the
lightning of the soul