Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-11-29
AN AGE OF DOMINANT MIND.
This Is the Beginning of u Cycle of
InvisibIe FOrcen.

Invisible Forces.
TyndaIl, Haeckel and Huxley all did
work which had to be done. But that
work was limited to chemical and biolog-
ical demonstration. 1t was science, bur
science Of the old school, Just as the
reign of a man of genius like Goethe
makes thousands of intelligent men APP
pear like pygmies, so the revelations in
the domain of light and sound, electric
transmission and mental suggestion make
the discoveries of Darwin and all his CON
temporaIies appear trivial in comparison.
The simple fact that thought can be
transmitted, Us well as electric currents,
without wires is enough to stupefy the
conservative mind. Even now efforts are
being made to develop an independent ac
ton of mind and viii outside OF the bo:
SO that while the body is sleeping or IL
posing in one place the mind, or double
may visit friend or locality at a great
distance and return with the knowledge
which it went to seek. Indeed several
schools of hypnotism claim this faculty
for some Of their pupils What this
means may be conjectured if we consider
for moment the possibility of a mind
gifted in this way setting TO work TO dis
cover the secrets Of some great chemical
business or political intrigue. We are at
the beginning of cycle Of invisible
forces; the coming age will be one Of in
visible action. The submarine torpedo
boat typhes the development of the CEN
fury. Life as we'll as destruction will
be dealt out by invisible forces and invis-
ible methods This is pre-eminontly the
age of mind, as the past century was the
age OF matter So far as we know. cleo
tricity is the soul of visible form. What
we call brain waves have an analogy to
electric waves.
1t is no eNaggeratiOn to say that the dis
coveries 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 science for the space
of a single year. No one reads philo
sophy now, because the simple but amaz
ing facts disclosed during the past five
years render the dreams. the specua
tons and the guesswork of the past alb
surd. The little that we now know in
/ practical way is more than all the philos
ophers of the past knew, from Aristotl,
to Leibnitz. The absurdity of the ole
HeHAthAH may W SuAltllltu up Ill the DOSl
tiviSm of Auguste Comte, which aime,
at hard and fast rules of life and conduct
as if such things could ever be in a worl,
in its infancy. Every fresh discovery de
livers a blow at the old and fixed for
mulas; every disclosure of mental powe
bids defiance to some stereotyped belief
But the most wonderful fact of the pres
ent is that we are being ruled by tn
l.
successful inventors of the present da
would have passed for madmen twent
} years ago. The so called dreamers ar
} now the men Of action; they are the one
: we swear by; they have proved thei
power and competence, and thinking pee
: pie turn to them for more miracles of di.
; cOvery and invention.
= The time is not far distant when sc
= ence of the mind will treat material sc
, ence as if it were plaything The ruler
: of the future need not make themselvt
I visible in public; their work will be dor
. in silence and secrecy; they will cOmman
= from distant and isolated places. Nj
D terial riches will play but a secondai
!, part. Mammon will be forced under |
:. purely intellectual pressure. Many of Il
self made milionaires have known we
deeply interested in some religion or isl
out of which they expected some enligh
- eminent and consolation. No people a
= more conscious of limitation than m
n lionaires. But the day is coming wht
the psychic power of the intellect will k
\ mllionairism. The two cannot exist t
gether There will be no battle, no strif
: no cunning display of intrigue; the blow
h will be delivered silently, like the strOl
) of an electric bolt. Brute power will su
cumb to soul force. Now, the mode
r. millionaire is not wholly fool! The IN
J, ment he sees that destiny is against hi
4 he will deliver his money bags for t
universal good and be very glad to Ii
: and work in the world like other mOrta
= Fear and respect will at last compel hi
:, to give way to intellect.
e Everything has its own time. PhenOl
!, ena come and 90 in cyclic order. The
is nothing before or after the proper tin
Il We know what a scientific mind mea
:, today, and we know what a scienti
n mind meant thirty years ago, and
is thinkers Of today are as far remOv
=, from the thinkers of 1876 IS electricity
= from steam. We know steam to De
:, crude and clumsy thing compared W
- electricity, and tomorrow we shall ava
- to the fact that mind is just as super
to the crude electric current.-Fran
Grierson in Westminster Review.