The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-28
Amputated Hands.

Amputated Hands.
ED TOR HERALD:-Prof. Kelly seems
| to think that L was wide of the mark
when l said that "all authenticated
| works on Physiology taught there
were sensational feelings in amputated
| limbs" The Prof. no doubt put an IN
| depreciation on my language That dlu
| Lot intend to convey, for he quotes an
eminent authority who says "only
about five per cent of those who suffer
| amputatiOn lose the feeling of the part
| taken away" which is the idea L in
| tended to convey.
| Are the nerves which terminates at
the end of the stub a sufficient cause to
send sensational feelings into space
| where the member before it was de-
tached occupied? If a material sub
| stance, as the nerve, has the power to
send sensational feelings one inch into
| space, pray tell me by what logic can
| you circumScribe it's power by any dis
| lance? If Mr.. HAIRS, uIIlGr nerv u t
| left elbow was struck against SOME
thing, where would the tingling ST :; =
] ton terminate? L venture the asseI-
| ton that it's terminus would be in pace
where the third and fourth fingers foi =
merly occupied.
We will now bring the psychological
| TELESCOPE of Substantial Philosophy to
bear upon the phenomena, in order If
possible to make the readers and editor
| OF HERALD understand the teaching of
| SubStantialiSm in such cases.
| Man is dual being; the inner man IS
| a perfect counterpart of the outer man I;
| that is he, the inner man, has all the SEN
suous organs that are ascribed to the
outer man; again, the inner man, has
eyes with which to see, ears with
smell, mouth with which to taste and
| hands with which to feel; hence it is a
perfect organism with all the functions
| which we credit the outer man with.
n a 90 in he
natural realm may be both material
and immaterial, but they can only eff
| feet our sensuOuS consciousness
| through the regnant life-fOrce which
| perYadeS every animal organism
| which force of vitality is correlated to
the mental-fOrce of all organic beings,
upon which consciousness of either
pleasurab g or painful sensations can be
predicated." All force, physical,
in God himself, the original and only
self existent and uncreated entity from
whom as the universe personihed, all
| eXiStenceS, material and material nave
evolved" All force comes from Him
and acts onlv by es ablished laws
which lie has ordained. God gave to
the mental, intellectual and rational
| force in man the power to act, as much
as He did to electricity, heat. light,
| gravitation, vitality or animal instinct;
but having made man alone in his own
image that rational form of force only
had delegated to it the independent
power of becoming, like the fountain
whence it was derived, responsible for
is own dOihgs.
Life is the basic force of all oraganic
beings, by which nature carries ON it's
vital functions, by which it appropri-
| a-eS the material elements and then as
| Stimulates them, whereby to build up
and then to keep up the physical struc-
ture, and by which the higher grades OF
| organic beings not only move there bo-
dies, but by which also, in correlation
with mental force, the same vital or
ganism is enabled to design and per-
| form Intelligent work.
This vital force is the substantial
messenger which hurries To the seat OF
| consciousness every SenSuouS effect,
| produced by external substances upon
| physical organism, using the sense
| nerves as trauIways and telegraph wires
| for hurrying such impressions to the
| mental labratory for analysis. Odor,t
most attenuated material substance, by
| contact with the nasal membrane, pro-
| duces an effect on the Olfactory nerve
and is seized upon and hurried by sub
| stantial life force along this nerve tram
| way to the mental workshop here
tins odorouS contact, though material lis
| translated into the sensation of smell. A
| hot iron, and one of same temperature of
our body may touch our flesh and those
| sensations, one OF material iron and
| the other of Immat6rlal h6at-fOrce, are
| both carried together by the sHbstan-
tIal though immaterial vital messen
gar to the seat of CONSCIOUSNESS, where
| Lney are anaiyZed into their distinct
| sensations. The favored particles of
matter touching the palate produce an
| appropriate affect upon the guStatoIy
membrane, which effect, substantial
! life force takes up and hurries i'll like
manner to the seat of consciousness,
to be resolved into different taste sen
| sation by the mental force of the
| organic being.
| The immaterial light substance itself,
| by it's contact with the retinal nerve
| membrane, does all the work of the SEN
suous impression for life force to carry
| away to the mental work shop and have
| translated just as the contact of Odor
| completes it's work when the particles
strike the nasal membrane, where the
substantial life-force takes up the inn
| preston and conveys it to the seat of
| consciousness for the translation, pre-
cisely as in the case of taste, touch,
seeing, hearing &c.
| Might we not ask why should the
| Psy cology of Prof. Kelly give only eyes
to the mentality of man and forever de-
| bar that mental force from a complete
organism by withholding from it the
other organs, such as ears, nose, mouth,
etc?
Hence we believe that a sensuous, vi
| tai and substantial organism perVadeS
| the whole physical structure and every
part thereof and when physical ma
y
| tated, this only partially removes t g
| v tai hand, an attenuated form of it 70 =
! rowing the material hand but vastly
| more dense form remaining in the arm.
Such view gives possible explana-
| ton of the oft asserted fact that the
cramped position of an amputated limb
has been uncomfortably felt by the suf-
ferer till the separated member had
been favorably and comfortably djuS-
ted.
If the facts are as delineated by Mr..
Harris and others, what PHILOSOPHY so
fully accounts for them as the one here
suggested; namely that a portion of the
vital limb remains with the amputated
portion of the physical limb, causing a
sympathetic relation to exist between
the two separate forms of this vital or
gaI.ic member?
The vital Incorporeal hand must re-
main in dense form attached to the
material living arm, we prove, l think,
since amputated members (Such as
been perfectly reproduced after having
been separated. What philosophy can
We vague solution of this pnenome
non.
Readers, 1 suspect that substantial
PHILOSOPHY is the only one that ever
offered a solution of that class of phe-
nOmena.
In brief, the explanation is this: "The
vital finger of the child remains in its
perfect form attached to the hand after
the material finger has been amputated,
and being very dense or concentrated,
as it is claimed to be in the infant, it
forms an invisible outline-pattern tor
the vital and physical bioplasts of the
chlld's hand to work by, and thus be
guided to deposit the material mole
cules in such positions as to restore the
finger exactly as it was before amputa-
ton. But for this actual, substantial
but immaterial pattern of a finger,
along and around and through which
the dual biOplasts are guided to work,
no reason can be given in science why
IL thumb should not be produced, in
stead of the Identical finger as before,
nor in fact why a regrowth of any kind
could or should take place."
| might further cite you to the repro
ductiOn of the salamanders' leg, the life
development of the Polyp by segments,
and that each division of the ndiS worm
where every section retains enough of
life force to develop into a worm.
There are other phenomena that can
only be explained by acknowledging as
a theory or fact the dual nature of man.
presume this article is rather long,
hence 7 will have to defer until some
future time the answer to the Editor rel
alive to the synchrOnism of unison
tuning forks, thunder and window
panes, and bells and dogs.
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