The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-06-09
DEVELOPING SIXTH SENSE.
Human Race Is Unconsciously Using
Mastery and Forcefulness.
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The most amazing development of
the twentieth century So far has been
the realization hat a sixth sense"
that Is to say. some other than
taste, smell, touch. hearing and sight,
is beginning to operate powerfully up
on our lives. 1.-The influence Of mind
over matter" has come to be a catch
phrase. and people are greatly inter-
ested in discussing the several ways
in which this curious influence shows
itself. but strangely enough. little at
tention is given to the idea why the
human race is developing the sixth
sense.
Without going into biology closely,
1t may be remembered that touch was
the first sense to be developed, then
taste and the other sense in varying
order in different organisms. But at
the same time it must not be forgotten
that all these senses came in response
to a need. Touch. for example. de-
the requirements of a diet that had
to be selected. So this sixth sense
does not spring from nowhere. but
is Developing steadily in response to a
need, and is produced by that need.
The one force that is creating this
sense is social intercourse. Gestures
sufficed in the days of primitive man,
for his wants were few n h mat
tiers which his neighbors could COM
municate to him were fewer still. A
little later words came n they were
necessary because abstract ideas came
which gestures could not express. The
sense Of hearing then became highly
acute. 80 that not only could words
which souned much alike be distin-
guished, but even the same word in
different tones conveyed a different
meaning. Now. thought processes are
So rapid and the urgency Of communi-
cation is S great that words seem
cumbersome and slow. People who
quick witted can often tell the end
Of a sentence their companion has just
begun.
This is especially true in business
life. The good salesman is by no
means always the most fluent talker,
but is the nan who car project into
the mind of the man to whom he Is
trying to sell goods the general idea
of his purchasing the same. The big
master not by his oratory, but by his
sense Of mastery thing projected
by the mind. There are men and wo-
men who simply cannot help making
love OF being made love to. but be-
cause OF anything they say, but be-
cause either their charm or their
forcefulness operates consciously or
unconsciously by the sixth sense
Each year sees this sense growing
stronger. because every year the circle
Of social intercourse increases. Not
long ago It was rare to know people
of different nationality than ourselves.
and a century ago any person who had
been on two continents was a wonder
full traveller. The literature Of foreign
nations then was little translated. Now
all great writer's can be read in the
principal tongues. no matter what the
language in which their work were
written: now, nearly every American
counts among his or her friends people
Of a dozen different nationalities, with
different points Of view and thought.
The world is growing wider. bigger.
more engrossing. and 1t is In order to
keep pace with advancing needs Of
communication that a new sense route
10 being opened. America has the
greatest opportunity and the greatest
need. and 1t Is in America that this
great new mind development should
reap its finest fruit.