The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15
~ Dr. LEONARD kEENE HIRsH-
BERG.

~ DP. LEON AND n ENE UIRSu-
BERG.
ROF. HENRI BERGSON and DR..
- Sigmund Freud. both non mate.
i REALISTIC in their proud scientific
positions, are ranged on the side
Of science in respect Of the new proof
that telepathy Is a humorous myth. per-
petuated like phrenology and astrology
and other pseudo-sciences by the, defects
in common school education.
George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert X
Chesterton. on the other hand, have
ranged themselves in their usual para
doXical way against science. They say
that telepathy is n real thing. To prove
their case they cite the fact that even
inert material things such as a stone, a
piece OF wire, a lock and "A key all have
memories
\ piece of wire once turned and
twisted remembers" enough of each
turn to be more easily twisted each sue
ceedlng time Thus 1t remembers" and
forms a habit" \ new key In a lock
is hard 10 turn, just as a new thing read
or a new lesson learned is hard to re
member" After you read the lesson
twice or study your sums several times
you begin to form the habit to remem-
her, Ia understand them.
Ii is the same with the new lock and
key. II Is hard to turn the first time
but 1t grows increasingly easy each sub
sequent time Thus the metal and the
mould remember"
Music when soft voices die.
Nibrates in the memory.
Odors. when sweet violets sicken.
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves when the rose Ia dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed,
And so thy thoughts. when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on
Therefore according to these believers
in telepathy the slightest material or
immaterlal movement between your SEN
sation and my sensation. between Jim
Green's thoughts and Mary AIMS ideas.
can stretch Itself through space and
be understood by another without speech
Space is nothing but the outwardness.
upwardness and sidew seness of your
body, which your senses-hence COM
mon sense-and your feelings inform
you about.
When you are born you do not
know that YOU ARE" You do not know
that you are alive. Your body is
utterly unknown to you. although it is
known to everybody else above nine
months old present at your birth.
You must know about up and down
side to side. forward and back ward
which Is three dimensional space
before YOU can know your own body
This comes only with crying. bawling.
kicking and the other manifestations.
Perhaps the difficulty OF understand
nj
living bodies were really superior to
Iron. lead or mineral matter. That Is
to say II you could remember the first
of each thing or experience which hap
pened to you in the first six months OF
your life; II you could recollect the
single, pure and isolated details which
acted upon your skin eyes, ears,
muscles and taste those first days, that
most crowded period Of your life would
explain much that Is mysterious and
seemingly occult.
What is to be done? An imaginative
reconstruction OF those early days has
been attempted by experimental psy-
biologists. DR.. knight Dunlap and
DR.. Sigmund Freud have each in a
different way attempted to bring this
infant life into use.
Close your eyes. stand still and out
OF reach OF everything. Make random
movements with hands and
arms Try to focus your attention
on the feelings OF length, breadth and
height. In other words, think thus Of
space.
Now try to imagine your clenched
INST as next to your forehead or the
back ~ your neck, 1t Is almost un.
| canny, is II not?
Yet the infant does this very thing
every waking hour of the day and
night for months and months. Now
actually In that same blank position