The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-19
The Wonders of the Mind


able to learn the least thing about the earth
While depicting this planet as "a square raft
floating on top great, lmitless ocean, with
Hydrologic regions bounding it in each direction
he mapped the celestial regions and unravelec
Astronomy the first science and astronomy
is the science of the farthest away.
Psychology is almost the last science, ye
psychology deals with the human soul itself it:
functions, powers and laws. Himself was manI
more about the movements of the planets thar
the tides of his own blood, was better acquainted
with the solar system than with his owl
stomach.
Psychology is the youngest of the great sci
ences, younger even than sociology which is thu
most difficult of all, for it was established only
about fifty years ago. But even then it remained
academic and sterile until the present decad,
when for the first time the psychologists hav,
begun to use the precise instruments of measure
ment, comparison and description that are s,
essential to any science.
But even in so brief period revolutions hav,
been wrought in our view of human existence
revolutions so profound, so far reaching, tn
masses will not even begin to realize them for a
least hundred years
Some glimmering of this new knowledge will
be gained from the article by Sir Oliver Lodg
which appeared in the Palladium Monday even
ing. If that escaped you fish it out from behint
the kitchen stove and read it.
Sir Oliver deals with telepathy, the psyche
logic doctrine that Individual minds able t.
communicate at distance without any visible
means of contact. Alongside this fact, which i
indubitabe, Marconi wireless telegraphy dwin
dies to insignifcance.
But telepathy is not the only wonderful pow
er of the human soul. Each new year, almost
brings some new glimpse of those wonderful in
visible regions.
The psychologists believe, at least many O
them that the mind never surrenders a singh
possession, but clings to it forever. In othe
words, has perfect memory. No man ever for
gets anything. He may not be able to recall
matter at some particular time, but the thing i
there and may bob up on some other occasion
When man realizes that every feeling ever.
thought, every word, every action continues t.
live always in the memory's mysterious stor
houses, he will probably be little more careful
what he permits himself to feel, think, say
and do.
A number of the very greatest of the psy
biologists are convinced the mind has power t.
move objects at distance without visible mean
of touch. This faculty they call Telekinesis
Prof Flournoy, in his extraordinary book, "Spr
itism and Psychology" gives abundant proof O
this power.
The mind has peculiar ability to foretel
events that lie in the future. Forecastng is nov
accepted as scientifically proved fact.
A more popularity known faculty of the sou
is clairvoyance, the ability to things at dis
lance far out of the reach of the physical eyes
This is worked as a graft by scheming trick
sters for personal gain, but is veritable fact O
the mind just the same That many fraudulent
ly claim to possess abnormal mental powers
doesn't prove for moment that no abnorma
powers exist. The best things are the mos
|counterfeited
Some of these days when we have more
carefully explored the interior universe we will
awaken to the truth that man carries within hin
an infinity alongside which the outer infinity O
space and time and stars shrinks to nothing
81 will confront these shows of the day ant
night" said old Walt Whitman, land see if b,
not as great as they" What wonders lie buried
under the threshold of mans normal conscious
ness balks the imagination. We can only sa,
with Shakespeare, How divine thing is man =
And when skeptics, like the famous Frenchman
ask with fine scorn, How can man live in
future world? He will have no body to live with
How can one see without eyes, hear without ears
feel without nerves, achieve without hands .
the reply will be: Even now we see without
eyes. hear without ears, feel without nerves ane
move without feet or hands,
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