The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-07
AN AGE OF DOMINANT MIND. This Is the Beginning of Cycle of
 InviSihla Eorces.

Frances Grierson in Westminster Review Tyndall Haeckel and Huxley all did
 work which had to be done. But that work was limited to chemical and biolog- ical demonstration. It was science, but science of the old school. Just as the reign of a man of genius like Goethe makes thousands of intelligent men ap- pear like pygmies so the revelations Tn the domain of light and sound, electric transmission and mental suggestion make the discoveries of Darwin and all his con- temporariss appear trivial in comparison. The simple fact that thought can pc transmitted. as well as electric currents. without wires Is enough to stupify the conservative mind. Even now efforts are being made to develop an independent ac-
 tion of mind and will outside of the body,
 so that while the body is sleeping or re- posing in one place the mind. or double.
 may visit a friend or locality at 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 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 a cycle of invisible
 force; the coming age will be one of ln- visible action. The submarine torpedo boat typifies the development of the cen tury. Life as we'll destruction will
 be dealt out by invisible forces and invis- ible methods. This Is pre-eminently the age of mind, as the past century was the age of matter. So far as we know, cleo tricitv is the soul of visible form. What
 we call brain waves have an analogy to electric waves.
 It is no exa ggera ton to say that the dis coveries and inventions of the mast ten years have made child's play of every known system of philosophy. Never again will any man be able to build up
 nhilosophical system which will stand the
 a,tIf fS If 10 sCipnpa for the of a single year. No one reads philo- sophv now, because the simple but amaZ- ing facts disclosed during the past five wears render the dreams. the specula-
 surd. The little that we now know in a practical way Is more than all the nhilos- ophers of the mast knew. from Aristotle
 to Ileibnitz. The ahsurdity of the old svstems may be summed up in the posi- tivism of AuRIiste Comte. which aimed at hard and fast rules of life and conduct. as if such things could ever he in world
 in it's infancy. Every fresh discovery de- hvers a blow at the old and fixed for mulas: every disclosure of mental oower bids defiance to some stereotvned belief
 But the most wonderful fact of the pres
 ent is that we are being ruled by the | successful inventors of the present dav | would have naesed for mad1nen twenty years ago. The SO called dreamers arc now the men of action; they are the ones
 
 | power and competence and thinking peo- | ole turn to them 'or some miracles ot dis | covery and invention.
 | The tim is not far distant when sci 1 ence of the mind will treat material sci | ence as if it were plaything. The rulers of the future need not moke themselves visible in public; their work will be done | in silence and secrecy; they will command | from distant and isolated places Ma | terial riches will play but secondary | part, Mammon will be forced under hy i purely intellectual pressure. Many of the | self made millionairos I have known were | deeplv interested in some religion or ism.
 out of which they expected some enlight- | enment and consolation. No people are
 more conscious of limitation than nil | lionaires But the day Is coming when | the psychic power of the intellect will Kill gether. There will be no battle, no strlte, no cunning display of intrigue; the blows will be delivered silently like the stroke of an electric bolt Brute power will sue cumb to soul force. Now the modern millionaire is not wholly q fool. Ihe mo he will deliver his money bags Tor the universal good and be very glad to live
 and work in the world like other mortais.
 Fear and respect will at last compel nm to give way to intellect.
 Everything has its own time: Phenom-
 ena come and go in cyclic order. mere mere is nothing before or after the proner tune
 We know what a scientific mind means
 today. and know what sclshtlhc mind meant thirty years ago. ana the thinkers of today are as far reHoNeu
 from the thinkers of 1870 as electrlcIty IS
 from steam. We know steam t9 ue ,.I
 crude and clumsy thing compared Wlth electricity. and tomorrow we snail awake to the fact that mind is just as superior to the crude electric current