The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-10
REACTION FROM RWINISM

fold than seats in the cabinet.
REACTION FROM DARWINISM.
The cele brated Charles Darwin, the
English philosopher, gave a great i'm
petus to ''materialism;" is, to a
belief that man is nothing but the &C
cidental coming-together of atoms-a
mere dust-heap; and that life was
result OF this aggregation of the dust
heap.
There is no doubt that the higher
life OF this earth has moved upward
through the lower life; and Darwin
helped to trace the steps Of this
ascent; and therein he did a great
work. But having caught some
glimpses of the processes whereby
God developed his mighty scheme,
(Which is not yet worked out to COM
pletion), the shallow ones cried out
''There is no God!'
1t was a gross 4,on-sequitur. The
humblest blade OF grass proves the ex-
istence of an intelligent Creator as
clearly as does the solar system.
We take the following from recent
journal:
London, Feb. 1.-The theory of
brain-wayes, as accounting for tele-
apthy or thought transference or
mind-reading, is beginning to get
scientific standing. Professor William
Crooks, whose name is so well-known
in connection with "the Crookes
tubes and the x-ray, delivered the
presidential address last week before
the Society Of Psychical Research. Be-
fore launching his theory, he entered
upon an elaborate calculation as to
the vibrations which produce sound
and light. Then he applied similar
law to the subject Of thought trans
ference, and suggested that it is con-
ceiveable that intense thought con-
centrated by one person upon another,
with whom he is in close sympathy,
might induce telepathic chain along
which brain waves could 60 straight
to their goal without loss of energy
due to distance. Such specula tion,
was, he admitted. new and strange to
science. 1t was at present strictly
provisional, but he was bold enough
TO make it, and declare the time
might come when it could be submit
ted to experimental tests.
The professor spoke of the work
which is being done by the society as
likely to form no unworthy preface to
prOfounder science Of man, OF ma
ture. and, OF worlds not realized. He
said he could see no reason why any
man of scientific mind should either
shut his eyes to or stand deliberately
aloof from it. He endeavored in a
long argument to clear away the
scientific supers titions" which pre-
vent many from venturing into re.
search which might in time dominate
the whole world Of thought.
One of the greatest thorns in the
path of this society, he said, was the
fact that many people started with
certain decomposition. depending up
on too hasty assumptions. For
instance. among those who believe
with him in the survival Of mans in
divduality after death there ~as the
widespread illusion t@v ETHEREAL
bodies, if such there were, must
correspond to the earthly bodies in
shape and size. The human
body, it was true, was the most per
feet thinking and acting machine vet
evolved on this earth, but its excel
lence, for its varied purposes. depend
ed upon the conditions by which it
was surrounded.
Its action, for instance, was entire
ly governed b. the strength Of the
force Of gravilation, which had not
apparently varied during the ages in
which animated, thinking beings had
existed. Were the force OF gravitation
to be either doubled or decreased
there would be remarkable changes in
the type Of humanity, to suit the al
tered state OF affairs. Yet popular
imagination, taking no heed OF this,
presupposed spiritual beings to be SUI
perior to the laws OF gravitation ORR
ginally determined. His own D: cture
OF the constitution of spiritual beings
would make them centers Of intellect,
will, energy and power; each center re-
tanning its individuality, persistence
Of self and memory, and each mutual
ly penetrable. while at the same time
permeating what we cali space.
Professor CrOOkeS' tentative specu.
lations must, perhaps, be accepted as
the latest and most liberal dictum of
science with regard to the existence Of
a possible world which is beyond the
ken Of ordinary senses, but his address
as a whole is calculated to give keen
stimulus to the serious investigation
of pSychical phenomena.
man, can pass outside Of it's bony
temple, nd,-without the use OF the
senses, -communcate with the thing
which thinks ia another man.-as is
done every day in mesmerism and
Approximation it follows that we
have within us something more than
dust-heap,-that we are spirits cap
able of acting without the dust-heap
And thence it follows that there are
probably, outside Of the flesh,-di-
vorced from the aps,-million
upon millions, trillions upon trillions,
Of other spirits. And this visible
world is dwarfed into insignifica nee;
and we are lost in awe before the pres
ence Of the Tremendous One, who
made it all and holds it all together.
GEORGE TAYLOR CAUGHT.
landlord, Cal, Feb, 1.-While ad-