The Washington times., 1914-11-18

Can Be Explained.
l have been on committees to investi-
gate the alleged instances of thought
reading by all of the known telepa-
thists, and even those of Eusapia Pala-
dino are easily explained as sunlight
or ice formation. The Prescott broth
ers alone have a 'mind-reading" eXhi-
bition that can only be explained by
themselves. The trescotts, however
admit smilingly that they know what
they are doing. that there is nothing
supernormal in ii.
Since thoughts are merely the images
of the real, physical world which have
impressed themselves upon living It's
sues. they are, after all, the results of
vibrations or movements of matter.
Your mind is. then, the sum and sub
stance OF what is actual and physical.
III IL so happens that Jimmy Jones
thinks of the same things simulta-
neously with Bill Thomas, it may be
that electrons-the vibrating particles
world other than yourselves, impinged
themselves upon your senses al the
same time. This is not a coincidence in
the usual sense Of the word, but a
mathematical preponderance OF certain
chances over others.
Reading of Muscles.
There has been and is a standing Of
fer in London of 5000 for each and
every authenticated and proved ex-
ample OF mind-reading which will with
stand judgment Just as wireless teleg-
raphy, X-rays, radium, air-flight, mi
crobic life. ultraviolet rays, and other
universally accepted facts have stood
the test of mere disbelief and prejudice
This offer has now been repeated for
five years, yet no jot or title of evi-
dence has been adouced even to make
serious claim for the money.
Mind-reading means that the thoughts
IN one person brain can be conducted
by unseen, unknown, or seemingly inn
possible ways into some other think
ing person, and there produce other
thoughts identical or related to those
which are present in the first individual.
Briefly, the faithful maintain from a
few occurrences which appear to be
''mind-reaoing,' that there is such a
thing. This is as much as to say when
an owl or two wakes up. blinks its eyes
and sings tu-whit too-who, on a cloudy
day, that it must be night.
True enough, almost any one may cite
instances of human beings, separated by
distances who have two minds with but
a single thought, two hearts that beat
as one The myriad shafts of chance in
a world of thousands of millions OF peo-
pie would inevitably bring about occas-
fonally similarities or analoeies. just as
homesick swallows may begin 10 fly
athist would in such a case refrain from
saying IL was now summer.
The only possible way for rnind-read-
ers, spiritistic believers, and other ad-
herents of occultism to come into court
with clean, unprejudiced hands. is in
tentionally TO reproduce with precision,
under open conditions above board. any
alleged example of mind-readine or
'thought-transferren
DR.. J. d. Quackenbos and other be-
LEVERS such as Camille Flammarion and
Sir William Crookes, say that ole
patfic action is characteristic of animal
nature and explains certain methods OF
brute communication" This was ex:
ploded by Prof. John 4. Watson, Of
the Johns Hopkins department Of eX-
perimental psychology.
He has proved that, not only with
brutss. but also in men, all so-called
telepathic communication is really mus
cular movements caught by the
distant animal In other words, every
little movement has a mind-meaning OF
its own. Language may be one way 10
express thoughts, but the muscles and
activities are equally as good. If a let
ter does no: come; II any regular me-
Chanism, started by an acquaintance
ten thousand miles away, is interrupt
ed. you have ''transferred-thouSh
that something is al fault. This is the
most popular type Of "mind-reading.'
Copyright. 1914. Newspaper Feature Service