Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-10-12
LIMITATIONS OF OUR SENSES.
These Place Perfect Knowledge at an In
finite Remove from Us.

These Place Perfect knowledge at an In
finite Remove from Us.
We gain our experience of the world
through our senses. Man is born with
intellect, and through the senses the
intellect is trained. The newborn baby
possesses already some knowledge of
touch acquired before birth, and this
knowledge he afterward rapidly ex-
pands by constantly feeling his body
over and over, as if in exploration Of
unknown territory. Later he acquires
the faculties Of hearing and seeing,
and likewise of tasting and smelling.
Now, these senses, five IN number, are
they which train the intellect. They
are all very imperfect. Sight: but the
greater part of the solar spectrum is
invisible-that is to say, more rays
visible than those which our eye can
see: Hearing: but there are sounds so
low and sounds so high that they are
inaudible. Taste and smell: very i'm
perfect. Touch; but there are millions
of particles of dust to the square inch
of the hand which we can not feel.
Yet, even with these imperfect means
of education, many men have reached
the conclusion satisfactory to them
selves that they are clever; but the
wisest man knows nothing in COMPARE
son with perfect wisdom.
The whole of the known universe
consists of matter in motion. All SEN
sation, everything we know of the out
side world, comes to US through mo-
ton. The motion sets up movement
in the nerve ending, on the skin, on the
retina of the eye, or wherever the prop
err ending capable Of receiving the par
ticular motion may be situated. This
motion is carried from the nerve end
ing along the nerve to the special cen
trail organ of the brain where it is in
terpreted. Light, sound, touch, taste
and smell are the only forms of motion.
we are capable of appreciating, because
for each of these forms of motion we
have special apparatus which can re-
ceive, transmit and interpret. There
are other forms of motion which we
cannot appreciate magnetism, for ex-
ample-and this simply because we
have no nervous mechanism which re.
spends to that kind of motion. In like
manner there can exist around us.
forces in infinite variety of which we
have absolutely no knowledge what
5ever.-Prof Graham Lush, in Popular
Science Monthly.
"A Post-Prandials Failure.
A famous after-dinner sneaker had a.
curions experience 6ne evening last
spring. He had been invited to make
one Of a half-dozen speeches upon GER
tain occasion, but circumstances over
which he had no control prevented his
arrival at the board until the evening
was wellnigh at its close. He was
called upon to, wind up the evenings
festivities five minutes after his arrival,
and then he got upon his feet and made
the finest effort Of his life. Much to
his surprise, his best stories fell fiat,
and he was much disappointed thereat.
On his way home he unbosomed him
self to the toast-master in this wise:
That was an awfully cold crowd to-
night They didn't take my stories
swehat all Weren't they good stories7''
Yes, they were, ." replied the toast
master; but they had already been
told by the previous speakers. - Har-
per's Magazine.
An UNREASONABLE Quarrel,
She know I'm unreasonab bic! That
is q woman's privilege!
He hut !ian't II unreasonable for you
to want to be unreasonable?
She (hotly No; but it is unreason-
able for you not to want me TO be un.S
reasonab BILE! s5S
b He mildly sit strikes me that Is an
proposition.
She (triumphantly Of course il Is.
Tor !. made y! They kiss end maks
irienda: Puck.