The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-25
FOR PSYCHoMETRIC EXCHANGE.
World-Embracing Scheme of a Northern
scientist.

! scientist.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
The premature disclosure of the char
| acter of the singular mission which Dr.
HJalWor Bisensen of Christiana has
| undertaken in America has not only
aroused grave apprehensiors among
certain large vested interests whose
ramifications are continental but has
excited the liveliest curiosity in scien-
tiflc circles of what may be termed the
33rd degree. Should the claims which
DR.. Bisensen so confidently puts forth
prove tangible of commercial demon
stration there would within less than a
decade be wrought an absolute revolu-
ton in all present means of communi-
cations between points remote from
each other. In brief. when once the
telemnemone of DR.. Bisensen enters in
to that common use which he asserts is
fully possible there will be no further
field for usefulness of the telephone
the telegraph, the carrier pigeon, the
courier, the mail. Ships can converse
with the shore. diplomats formulate
policies across intervening seas with
the secrecy now possible only to the
cabinet, lovers whisper signs through
mountains, men of affairs buy and sell
continents with the Ural or the Ganges
between them.
DR.. Bisensen, who is a grave and
bearded gentleman of middle age. and
is now the honored guest at the home
of a prominent Morse American citizen
of Chicago, who resides upon the north
side. does not hesitate to admit that he
believes he has the world by the hip.
But" says the doctor, Il desire moth
ing, nothing but glory. If l may have
the credit, if my name | may enroll
with those of Franklin, Davy, Far
quhar, Huxley, Siemens, Edson-that
is enough; that is all | wish: / shall be
satisfied in the full"
Here" he exclaimed. with beaming
animation. look! Ny prime idea is
simple, and yet how complex. The
brain, under my system, can and shall
be as easily measured as now is the
body. Measured, sized, weighed, put
in the balance, computed-understan
me- l do not mean at all as to quality.
This is cumulative, not qualitative,
analysis. Take a man. take yourself,
let me say. What do you know you
know? Nothing! That doesn't matter
Beneath the influence of my periplastic
chromimeteT a mans cerebral diver
gasations are mapped, outlined, record
ed. It's as if one We're being measured
for hat. The registration is absolute.
Under the workings of the telem-
mennonite exchange" the doctor went
on, IAN individual applies for member
ship, is measured, registered, given a
number. When he desires to communi-
cat with any other authenticated fell
low T. r. A. he simply bends his mind
upon that idea. Instantly the operator
at the central station becames per-
ceptive of this wave of intelligence, and
swiftly, silently puts the subscribers
brain in touch with the brain of the
person with whom he would think. Dis
lance lends no bar. 1t is an immaterial
matter Were our gross corporal be-
ings dissolved it would be possible and
easy to think from earth to star. The
conclusive proof of my theory Is that
the claims ! make have undergone
physical demonstration. | have, my
self. from Chicago. communicated with
and conversed with a friend in our
capital of Norway, purely aand simply
along those telemnemoic lines 7 have
endeavored to suggest to you. That is
conclusive.
When half the world has become
registered under our system" the doe
tor continued, the telegraph and he
telephone will be things of the last.
Thought transference is the inter-
change of the future between all men.
! no more doubt it than ! do my exist
ence."
Now, what do you think of that? Is
DR. Bisensen an amiable crank or IS he
a scientist of the higher type?