The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-17

New York Tribune. ss'l
Wireless teleSraphy IL as hard 70 believe
I'm as the chiid's story about the sseven
league boots" Why q little wheel that runs
along wire should gather power enough 70
lift three carloads Of people up a hill IL much
more difficult to understand than that the
door OF the robbers cave should swing open
when Ali Bahia uttered certain words. No
doubt a door could DO arranged with 30 dell
cate mechanism that on being affected by
certain vibrations Of the human voice Il
would open. But still II would only DO a
mechanism and would be no such miracle as
Is exhibited In teiesraphy. II belief In
thing means the understanding OF II We do not
believe In electricity. We only mako II, or
rather cduce It and guide 1t, and then use it.
But no one knowa what It is. When the
cable 10 laid from CANADA to Australia and
the old earth rcnews Its v.gor by wearing an
electric belt we shall be able to send mes
sases from our right hand to our left with
all tho world between And while one hand
ticks OF the sentence the hrst words OF 1t
will be coming to the receiver before the last
words Of 1t are sent of. In those two or
threo seconds the message will travel about
$4,000 miles, allowing for the great deviation
In the Pacific.
Y v v =
Now, let Il be noted that no ono under
stands this. Tho human mind can not fol-
low that message as It twists on the glasses
of half million telegraph poles and sweeps
across the valleys and climbs the great SUBJ
marine mountains. Ia man not forced to his
belief In the miracle of natures magic solely
by resuits7. This docs not differ from belief
in religious ereodf ~ believe in God. tho
Father Almighty. maker of Heaven and
earth!" So far as human understanding goes.
Is there any difference between the reasons
for belief In this creed and the reasons for
belief in electricity? Both come from noting
the results the causes OF which are undis-
covered. Both creeds are equally scientific.
ana It may be that we mako distinct gain
for ourselves when we refuse 10 confne our
beliefs to ordinary scientific limits.
For u quarter OF century science has
dealt with us In rather high -handed way.
Thou shalt not believe in anything thou
canst not eatl' This. crudely speaking, has
been one of the chief commandments OF the
last few years. Tho proofs OF tho doctrine OF
evolution. which on the whole have been sat
isfactory, have credited science with too
much. though the gains made through
that study have been enormous. These gains
are now being Incorporated In religion and AS
part OF the history Of man they were both
great and necessary. but further personal
gain may DO made IN the discovery that tho
world is not all pudding and can not all be
eaten and that there are many matters ano
conditions that can perhaps never be found
out through ordinary scientific methods OF
research.
What Ane chemists scales will weigh tho
impon6crable? What meier viii measure the
effect of will power on the mind OF another
There are more things IN Heaven and earth
: than are dreamed of In materaism, and
now that the more simple mental phenomena
exhibited by hypnotzed patients are being
taught and studied Ia New York there Is
= hope that The majority of mankind may soon
become aware of tho existence OF those parts
" of their general makeup which have 80 far
9 remained stcreted. In q book on the sab
e ject that appeared nome yeare ago It was
S said; ''The future OF science lies chiefly Ia
the religion that Ia now called unaclenuac.
and the further revelations In regard to re-
A lig.on must como from studying the inner
nature OF man. for is spirit and God
, IS spirit, and the need OF man is the ind
ing OF himself-the proving OF the imma-
teriai self which hungers for the spirit that
, IL tho father"
For those who have made some study Of
the subject, and who are aware OF the COM
monplace though seemingly miraculous of
focts OF mind upon mind, II will be interest
ing TO note the apparent analogy between the
workings Of the wireless telegraph and tho
wordless conveying of command TO the mind
Of the hypnotzed patient. In the two cases
the media utilized for the conveyance of tho
message may bo entirely different. but
Il Is Interesting 70 SEQ that in both cases mes
G cages arc sent through space that is not
bridEed by wire or by any other material
method tor contact, and that In both cases
h the message Is received through the use OF
n substance that is very sensitive to vibra-
3 ton In one case there are transmitter
y and receiYer--a crude APPARATUS, with wires,
that is worked with the aid OF electricity
and In the other care tho apparatus Is made
of flesh and blood and nerve pulp. which also
works, perhaps. with the aid OF eiectric''y'
One is admittedly machine. what Is inc
otherr
Every .xperimenter in hypnotism knows
4 that thought command and intention can be
4 transmitted from mind to mind without
n worap and that the will OF the mesmerizo'
nerson Is almost wholly possessed by that OF
/. ltba aetuator What does this meang Can
: The ordinary electricity OF the body be freight-
+, cd with concentrated thought and propelled
across space to hold control OF human re-
ce,vlna machine? Or is II one spirit con-
trolling another? That 10 question that may
y be us deep as the eternal seas, but human
research may plumb II before very LONG ros.
5 siblv there is a great future for the STUDY OF
: hvnnotic phenomena. Easily superinducea
II vision may be utilized; those blind from pA'A
: NAV see the gIories of the world. not win
their ewes. which are only an apparatus, OUT
: with the inner faculty which in reality does
r all our seeing. Perhaps even those VINO are
. ,tone deaf will be made TO hear delicious
o music. or at least be made to think tney
hear It, .n...
! In the desire for instruction along mess
: Inca the people Of America are Tar more a..
: yapoed than those Of any other region anu
d II "a time they got what they wanted me
4 study Of tho mind as related to matter snou'4
not be left to the men who have been makins
money BY providing an evenings amusement
hn, ahould be taken up by competent invest'-
rators. who might carry their faculty further
: and hold lectures and classes 20 that the NJ
IL nav know could be impaired 70 others
1870 AZ the clergy and In the medical proLes-