Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-01-03


vocabulary, grammar used in learning new language
but he wishes Ellen would tell exactly this principle of SEN
saon works. by which may be introduced into an entirely
sphere where apparently only customs but things
are dferent the atmosphere, perhaps living
well as the language" '"r
1--WE have already SEEM she answered. sensations are
the dictionary through which information of new world is to
be got And they entirely sufficient for the purpose and
can be used with comparative ease.
1--WE have that their use is the machinery
of the body The thing be studied is the cause of
any particular sensation usually entirely independent of the
learning The method of operation as Ellen has said
is Of universal teegraphy And it the system pro-
vded by the Power that universe for the educa
ton OF the intelligent beings inhabitng it.
"Thee is thinking substance capable of KNOWLEDGE This
thinking substance principle intelligence provided
with body which makes for while body lasts habta
ton and Ellen has sad furnishes with the necessary
means of using its faculties, and accumuan information
And this soul has faculty of learning And it has faculty
of feeling which perhaps that instinct stronger
than that of learning and from which, the superstruce
of knowledge may be built That the nuive feeling may
be used for the beginning of thought.
thus the girl Helen Keller who both and blind
and lived till seven DID, entirely ignorant first taught
the word water by pouring upon her hand at same time
tracing the word on her until she had learned that what
caused this sensation called water The names
of things words she got holding her fingers on the ps
of repeating them With preliminary steps of this
kind her education n rapidly
"And Ellen the old Pine to remember that existence
the existence of soul consists power of acquiring know
edge necessarily Ellen Thinks in that of retaining and
thus accommodating it, although provisions are made for
this and perhaps ultimately with any sufficiently DEVELOPED
in all its these become permanent the power of
atinOD is
quite different thing.
Ellen thinks that the old Pine that system of
signals from small beginnings by the aid of feeling or
instinct which is active in the soul whatever be its chance Of
location could be established which commences
the accumulation of knowledge by each individual soul And
Ellen feels sure that this is what takes place
But there has to be sign for every outside thing that we
become acquainted WITH And may realize the
sy of the machinery the body it is evident that the
soul cannot directly recognize material things Apparently
lives in another that is belongs another sphere where as
Ellen thinks they don't have material things but however that
be- representation of each thing has to be
brought into the immediate presence SOUL in order that
it may perceive it.
Here is introduced the principle we'll known in material
philosophy that things affect each other only by contact
And this, Ellen thinks regard to the soul 1t per-
ceves things only directly indirectly they are brought
into intimate relation with this is accomplished with
all material things whether the uhest the nearest
pebble by the sensations That is what they are for
"The old Pine and Ellen when they examine into if
what wonderful universe this is how complete all its parts
and how infinitely removed those parts would appear to be-
These things that is every material thing, cannot be
brought whole every personality, any of
them. And therefore did become essential to arrange
system which would accomplish this in all Hence that
OF sensations; which, like the quality of mercy strained
but falls equally upon the just and the unjust"
The old Pine sees said "that this system brings certain
knowledge to myriads of beings thus enabling them live
ntelgeny in material conditions, and he imagine that