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servative mind. Even now, efforts are
being made to develop an Independent
action of mind and will outside OF the
body, so that while the body Is sleep
ing or reposing in one place the mind,
or double, may visit friend or local.
ity, at great distance, and return
with the knowledge which IL went to
seek. Indeed, several schools Of hypno-
tism claim this faculty for some OF their
pupils. What this means may be con-
jectured If we consider for moment
the possibility of mind gifted in this
way setting to work to discover the Sc
crets of some great chemical business
or political intrigue. We are at the pc
ginning of a cycle of invisible forces;
the coming age will be one of Invisible
action. The submarine torpedo boat
typifies the development of the century.
| Life as well as destruction Will be
dealt out by invisible forces and invisi-
bic methods. This is pre- eminently the
age of mind, as the past century was
the age of matter So far as we know,
electricity is the soul of visible form.
What we call brain waves have an
analogy to electric waves.
1t is no eXaggeration to say that the
discoveries and inventions of the past
ten years have made child's play OF
every known system of philosophy.
Never again will any man be able to
build UP a philosophical system which
will stand the assaults Of the new sci
ence for the space Of single year. NO
one reads philosophy now, because the
simple but amazing facts disclosed DUR
ing the past five years render the
dreams, the speculations and the guess
work of the past absurd. The little
that we now know in a practical way Is
more than all the philosophers Of the
past knew, from Aristotle to Lebnitz.
The absurdity of the old system may
be summed up in the positivism OF Au-
guste Comte, which aimed at hard-and-
fast rules of life and conduct, as II
| such things could ever be in a world
| in its infancy. Every fresh discovery
delivers blow at the old and fixed for
| mulas: every disclosure of mental pow
err bids defiance to some stereotyped be-
| lief But the most wonderful fact of
| the present is that we are being ruled
| by the seeming impossible. Some Of the
| most successful inventors of the pres
ent day would have passed for madmen
| twenty years ago The so-called
| dreamers are now the men of action:
| they are the ones we swear by; and
thinking people turn to them for more
miracles of discovery and invention.
The time is not far distant when sci
ence Of the mind will treat material
| science as If 1t were a. plaything. The
| f,,+,, NO a a
| themselves visible in public; their work
will be done il silence and secrecy;
they will command from distant and
| isolated places. Material riches will
play but a secondary part. Mammon
I will be forced under by purely intel
| lectual pressure. Many of the self
made milionaires I have known were
| deeply interested in some religion or
ism. out of which they expect some
enlightenment and consolation. No
people are more conscious of limitation
than millionaires. But the day is com
ing when the psychic power of the in
tellect will kill milionairism. The two
cannot exist together. There will be no
| battle, no strife, no cunning display of
intrigue, the blows will be delivered 81
lently, like the stroke of an electric
bolt. Brute power will succumb to soul
force Now, the, modern millionaire Is
not wholly a fool, The moment he sees
that destiny is against him he Will de-
liver his money bags for the universal
good, and be very glad to live and
work in the world like other mortals
Fear and respect will at last compel to
give way to intellect.
Everything has its own time. Phe-
nomena come and go in cyclic order
| There is nothing before or after the
proper time. We know what scien-
tific mind meant thirty years ago; and
the thinkers of to-day are as far re-
moved from the thinkers Of 1870 as
electricity is from steam. We Know
steam to be crude and clumsy thing
compared with electricity, and to-mor-
row we shall awake to the fact that
mind is just as superior to the crude
electric current-Francis Grierson In
| Westminster Review.