The Washington herald., 1915-12-12
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~ JOHN Is. hAiemv.

lyet We know that we are often deceived ExpcrI
Ience keeps telling US that sense perception is
nereiy relative All about us there ,ust be forces
at work that our senses are not aware Of. For
iexampIe. this morning, as was walking over the
hills, saw dog eagerly shifting. Through the
sense OF smell he was evidently receiving multi
fude OF suggestions, to me denied. Close as we
were. We lived in worlds far apart. His world
fairly scethed with adventure opened up 10 him
through his fine perception But for his presence,
! should be unaware of its existence
We all realize the unreliability OF hearing We
are likely to be slow in locating the direction
OF certain sounds. Now they may seem to come
from one direction and now from another. The
saying, common among us, that our senses have
deceived us applies with particular force to this
sense There those whose hearing is marvel
Iously acute. Sometimes we say that thev have
sharp ears. But hearing is by no means related to
the ears alone as. after brief reflection we shall
agree. 1t is, somehow related to our whole being.
There are sounds that apparently enter through
every pore, even between the pores, that invade US
from outside and from every side, like flood,
The teeth, closely related to the ears deaf peo-
PIE have found great aids to hearing Perhaps
there Is no part OF the body that Is unrelated to
this sense. And then we know people who can
hear sounds from distance SO phenomenal that
1t would seem as If the sounds must reach by
some supernatural power. Often those highly de-
veloped psychcalIy will receive messages Of dis
tress. like cries. from those dear TO them in other
parts OF the world In such cases we are inclined
to think that the message comes, not by hearing
not by -means of the car but by a power that
transcends sense and that is related to the mind
or to the soul or to both Is it not possible that
surh frSfa IL
ton between human beings, of bond that shall
annihilate space?
Hearing obviously is related to feeling So in |
deed are all the senses. Tasting and smelling at |
once create feeling. Seeing and hearing may seem
slower IN their effect feeling in some instances.
Now we can understand what certain philosophers
mean when they that all the sensations of life
arc related TO touch, which is, Of course, feeling
But by torch is meant something far more subtle
and profound than physical contact Per-
haps the truth is that all life is intimately related
that IS. all life is in touch II could only escape
from the limitations OF the senses we might find
That they wtsc mere clues to universal harmony
And as Tor seeing. marvellous sight is how
huch H. too must miss. Even among people there
IS startling difference. 1t exists not merely in II
is relation TO space Those who sec farthest NAV
really sec very little, and those who arc short
sighted may million things denied to the
others. What rcproach TO our ewes the micro
cope is and how it suggests the marvcls that even
with ITS aid VIC cannot Sight, indeed seems so
closely related to the mind as to be more than
sense But the most gifted human beings in the
way OF sight, those VIC call sccrs those who see
lot merely things but the meaning of things, and
y Who see things denied to our sight and meaning
osed to our understanding realize that there arc
greater marVels still beyond their, reach. II
IN able man, associated with great parsonage II
las been telling me stories about the parsonage II
bout his simplicity his sympathy, his wisdom ali III
intimate little expressions, full of character These
ot The man would feel that | had betrayed both
us confidence in me and the confidence given him e
y the parsonage. So have been trying to think ?
# Some one who could give me virtually the same {
ecount without violating confidence. But where /
hal! hnd another with similar power of ap- b
reclation, with the capacity to see? 1t is Ip
ot merely s that the parsonage is great Ny infor-
nant mad TO possess greatness of his own to I,
each those fine and searching perceptions h
- Similarly ii our eyes were not so limited w. 8
,orld as an individual We should become really n
live to the truth that now perceive so dimly o
hat we were all related. Our special advantage 4
'e should discover to be involved in the universal
dvantage. We should the body polite as ;.
nglc thing an organism. as definite and as dis :.
net as human body. the i'll health of one part c.
Lated 10 inc condition OF the whole system, send a
lg poison through the veins How alert We should Sc
c to give treatment and to save ourselves our q
lives really being all the others, too. IN
However, we surely ought not to be pe.simist;c a
we can't see we can reason. Perhaps, indeed tr
'asonng is a kind of seeing Already we know a,
lat those plague spots called sluns are a menace
us all and we arc doing best to put them out
existence Unfortunately however. we are neg Ga
citing the causes behind them The sIu,ns may II
nd new expression not visible to our eyes and as as
" this reason the more nsidous and dangerous ~ ~
. III
Navy, Not Diplomacy. in
According TO the New York World, no Ameri- Of
!. "ds d HSht 10 attack the Presidents policy of
Hess he IS prepared to demand war in place of in
c slow processes OF diplomacy" This amounts fe
saying that there is n6 diplomacy but Mr. VII nr
ltute for war. Yet it might be argued with force J.,
at Mr.. Wilson avoided war not through diplo- IMa M
acy but through luck, and that different dinlo NJ