The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-20
WITH THE PSYCHOLOGISTS

There are in various parts of the word many hundreds of men and wo-
men who ire devoting their lives to the study of what we call the min
ons of certain minute fbres The in N mn has a unusual spot here and
he Genius has another pot there. These scientists show us that we are
er tic control Within the last few years they have been taking a great IN
terest in what they term metempsychosis, and Al of the world should a
INST as ep interest in it even if the nam does sound a little terrifying
without attempting to define in detail all the lateral angles, the funda-
mental principle OF the belief is that the soul o. mental life passes from
one living being to another.
1t is thought that the soul is eternal, but that it changes its home
from M animal house to another when the first structure is no longer Of
use. In India where certain scient SITS and philosophers are Jar nead ~
brother students OF whittier skin, they beheve TIT soul passes 10 the oodles
Of alma 8 from ths dead human body, n vice versa. Thus comes what We
are won. to call reinearnation and thosophy. However tina may be, there 10
ground for behe1 aside from all religious instruction OF any sor, n at
mentality is not buried in the grave o. destroyed n the remation stat.
when you gay the ocean fr. the first time, did it strike you IS any,
thing exceedingly new or novels In your mind, you knew what the sea
vas like probably before you saw it. Have you evr been travelling
OIL a train or walking over the hills when you say a piece of scenery that
IA familiar to you and that you knew you had vel seer previousiyf
Have o been in conversation and felt you had heard the same person
say the amt thing in the same way before, when you knew the o
trary al the case Have you yer seen complete strangers on crowd d
rences like these, that give ONE ground for wonder if this transmigra
ton of mentality may not take place.
Only a few years ago a boy in an eastern institution of learning was
ent ring upon a course in Greek. He learned the alphabet and then began
to repeat words by direction of his instructor, using the Erasmian method
OF pronunciation. In a week, he more Greek than he had everk known
of English. In a period O. a month and a half, he had settled perpdexing
questions or ola college professors. He ws repeating words and phrases
imprinted in text books nd interpreting the meanings If others which
could only be guessed at before by the grammarians. 1t RAJ expected that
he nt only would have solved nos of the problems connected with the
scientific study of Greek, but that he would have been able to tell how he
knew it.
Unfortunately he met with a accident from which he died, but all
who had known Of his uncomfortable knowledge of Greek were convinced
last fifteen hundred years Instances of the f@ek knowledge in mn and
women multiply although striking casesh like that of the student are very
rare.
We shall probably have to leave it to the psychologists to solve this
question and when they do it may be in generations far ahead up the
ladder of history. 1t is pleasant, however, to think this may be true, that
the grave does lot hide all, or that a life beyond the grave may contain
something besides harps and mamma and subtle perfumes. Such a belief
now we struggle in mystery and doubt. Let us hope for rapid progress in
the science of metempsychoss-Sierra Daily Times.