The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1891-04-10
HYPNOTIsM OR wHAT9
PEOPLE STILL DIFFER IN THEIR
OPINIONS.
Curious Discussions " tho Exercise Of
That which Ia Called Hypnoti6
fower--Invcstignt6rs Have
Great Hopes.

Is the time approaching when We
shall be able to transmit our thoughts
without such mechanical appliances MS
the telegraph and telephonep May we
yet SEQ the day when ideas will be pro-
iected from one person to another,
many miles distant, as freely as sound
light and electricity now travela II
such questions had been propounded
half century ago their author would
have been regarded rs fit subject
for a lunatic asylum, and even now
they look SO preposterous as hardly to
deserve serious consideration. Never
theless there are scientists and other
reputable Investigators that believe
that tho browning wonder OF modern
discovery may be the transmits ion Of
thought without mechanical aid.
Even the investigators into this sub
ject do not pretend to offer any logical
ground for their hope, ut least 80 far
Us the public knows. The whole mat
tor is 30 obscure. In fact that It Is
hardly worth thinking about at pres
emit except as n remote possibility OF q
wonderful stage OF human development.
There are some things. however,
possibly bearing upon the subject that
may stimulate the hopes Of the inves-
tigators. We know, for instance, that
II you strike bar OF iron with ham
mer the news OF that stroke is carried
to great distance. We know that II
you send up rocket from mountain
top the light from that rocket actually
has to travel TO the eyes that see it
miles away, and that time is consumed
in the journey.
We know. too. that telegraph mes
sages may DO sent from rapidly NOV
ing train Of cars, and there arc other
strange things. all within the domain
of physics, that tend to make us hcsi-
tate about denouncing anything on tho
ground Of impossibility.
But, again, there arc things outside
the domain Of physics that are puz-
cling us good deal in these days OF
wonders. These is no longer ques-
ton, for example, that 1t is possible
for two persons to be en- rapport, us
the French say, through the instru-
mentality Of hypnotism. 1t is only
within very few years that physicians
and scientists have admitted the exist
cnce OF this occult force, but with wide
practical demonstration has removed
all doubt about II. II is more than
probable, too, that we are only on the
threshold Of developments in this d.
rection.
The experiments thus far made in
our country have been confined chiefly
to exhibitions OF hypnotic powers when
the persons en- rapport were within
seeing and hearing distance OF each
other. But we learn from recent in
vestigations in Europe, where the sub
ject has received greatest attention,
that hypnotic manifestations have been
obtained when tho operator and the
subject were not near each other.
Well. II ono mind can exert an in
ilucnce upon another when the two
persons are 100 feet apart why may
not like results be obtained when the
persons are 100 miles apartP
II is fact, well known to tho British
government, that the natives OF India
have some means OF rapid commun-
ication with ono another, at great
distances, which outsiders have thus
far been utterly unable 10 fathom.
When the great uprising Of the Indian
scpoys occurred. generation ago, the
news OF tho spread OF tho rebellion
reached the natives Mt distant points
long before the British officers could