The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-30


saind you. within twelve years. To-Day
the stsaS mstes are reapsng ne BENEFITS
Of this discovery In Australia. Euror.e.
India ard every place Ia which the r.iy-
@ssoA OF the age has planted IT. foot
so' my friend. We hare reached period
~ tne progress Of events whea ne cam
hot anSru to be too skepticaL DO not
cry absurd It Is absurd 10 say absurd.
II one tells yoa that ire moon u mass
OF green cheese. and that the tasaklsng
stars are but heavens fIrsaies. do not an
sEer absurd. Rather exclasm. Prove it,
PARTON the parenEheSzs." continued
Prof- Currisr; s.we win u0w return. we
nave shown that there are latent sens.-
oaitses OF the paralyxsd auditory nerves
winch are susceptible 20 development
through exercise. What We want, then,
- the knowledge a. 10 how these latent
sensibiIEsses can be developed the most
rapidly and the most successfully. Now
let as see what hypnotism will do. I am
not . master of hypnotism. ard make no
claim to the ability 10 produce these re-
suits myself. speak. therefore. as one
who accepts the known results CT recog-
Hized hypnotic experiments and seeks
only 20 learn how similar experiments
may be utilized successfully In the work
OF assisting In the development. OF the
latent sensEbiiities OF this siumbering
nerve. Now. mark you. You and every
one else will acknowledge that Infinitely
greater results follow where the method
OF exercising any stuEsed muscle or
nerve OF the system is natural rather
tnan ARTIFICIAL II YOU can exercise the
muscle or nerve yourself much more is
70 6e hoped for than IL the exercise was
forced 10 be conveyed n an exterior and
ARTIFICIAL way. IL can send commune
cation over sleeping nerve from the
source from which TIRE communication
should by natures laws enanate. I
thereby give that nerve a bit OF exercise
which will tingie 1t into activity and use-
fulness with much more rapidly. and
with much better permanent results, tran
would be the case by forcing it into exer-
else by the use Of artificial means from
without. Now, WILL hypnotssm do this?
Let Us see. AL those who are familiar
with the subject. and who can speak
with authority. tell Us that the hypnotic
operator has, while the subject Is In the
hypnotic sleep. absolute control OF the
mind OF the subject. Now do YOU see
what am driving at? We are forced TO
operate now in exercising the paralyzed
nerve Of the deaf mute while the brain
Is busy with all the other senses. TIE
nerves OF vision are busy ticking off their
messages as 70 what the eye sees, and
the brain Is replying what to do about il
and what to look at next; the sense OF
touch is engaged in the same way: the
smell. the taste are sending their little
paragraphs of news, and that wonderfully
busy brain up there near the caransum
must record all the messages 1t receives
and so on sending its replies. Only the
nerves OF hearing cause this brain no ex-
penditure OF energy. The hypnotic opera
tor, as soon as he places the patient in
the hypnotic sleep. does what?
why, he proceeds at once to give or
ders to the nerves OF taste and touch and
sight and smell to go on a vacation.
take a rest. / shall need you again. he
says To these nerves. When / do / will
call YOU And then-why, you see IL all,
of course. The entire energy of the brain
let of from It's occupation with the other
senses is put to work TO bring TO this
nerve OF audience a command that shall
wake it from its iethargy. Wake up.
you lazy ras AL says the concentrated
brain power acting under the command
OF the operator: what do you mean by
sleeping when all your comrades are at
work? See, have given them rest IN
order that / may give You the fiogging
your worthiessness deserves. Wake up
and busy yourself with the work for
which ysu were brought into existence.
You were born a cripple, you claim. Ell?
Oh. you only need TO have your legs linz
hered up Come. hop. skip. jump; there.
don't you like it? Why. already / hear
your shouts CT i,y'
"yes, my friend. . think that through
hypnotism all this may be accomplished,
and yo,l--swhst do you have TO say about
Ii now?' said Prof. Currier, once more
addressing me directly.
What can any one say except that there
IL evidently too much in this to allow it
10 be r1ithiessly thrust aside? Prof. Cur
rler believes II. No better authority than
he on this usbJect is alive today. and
now, having heard him and the reasons
for his faith, believe Ii too, don't you?
GEORGE RUSKIN PHoEBuS.