The Press., 1915-01-06
An Indication
 Of Greatness
By OSCAR COX

My uncle, Dr James I'ulsifer, was d
 great scientist and an original thinker
 He died d bachelor and left me all his property. After his death l examined every paper of his l could find, es-
 pecially his scientific writings, think ing to publish them. Among an earlier
 batch written very soon after he grad
 uated in medicine found narra tive
 which as l read on interested me in
 tensey. Here it is:
 we all know that many things exist of which the human mind has not yet any conception. go further than
 this. I believe that anything of which
 the mind can conceive, however i'm
 probable. may exist.
 Some years ago il certain noted au-
 thor wrote q story-'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde'-suggest-
 ing that two different personalities might exist in the same man. 1 be- lieve that the day will come when it
 will be demonstrated to the world that some, if not all, of us are con- posed of more than one being. Indeed, not only believe it; know it. If you ask me why I know it. this is my re- ply:
 There was something about Jennie Hatch that impressed me the first time I met her. She was what most per sons would call odd Perhaps one req son for my becoming interested in her was that l was recent graduate of medical college and had taken post graduate course on the physiology of psychical conditions. It seemed to me that Miss Hatch was abnormal-not that her body was abnormal, but the spirit within 1t. For am not so given to materialism as to believe that our spiritual and physical parts are one.
 Whether Jennie Hatch mistook my scientific interest in her for love don't know, but she came to look upon me as a lover. I did not either en- courage or discourage her in this. permitted the relationship between us to drift on without definition. One thing I noticed which I set down to a certain fiickleness or apparent fickle- ness consequent upon the physical makeup of women. I would go to see her, say, on Saturday night, an evening I usually lodged my patients if could do so without injury to them. She would receive me kindly and be a de lightful companion. I would visit her the following Wednesday and she dered why I had called. During the first visit she would be a girl, during the second a woman. During the first would seem to be proper compan- ion for her-that is, person of about the same age. During the second she made me feel that I was boy at tempting to entertain a woman who had learned wisdom.
 My observations indicated to me that Jennie Hatch embodied two personali ties. My deductions were not based alone on such differences as have de- scribed. There was another and far more important symptom. I became convinced that Jennie sometimes loved me and sometimes did not love me. Not only this-I came to suspect that there were times when she loved some one else.
 "On the theory that she embodied two. persons 1t seemed to me that Jennie No 1 might love me and that Jennie No. 2 might love another. It was not conducive to love, or, rather, comfort. to be interested in one whose other self loved some other person. Never theless. I found myself growing fond of Jennie. My theory did not admit of Jealousy because I had no affection for Jennie No. 2. Yet, singularly enough.lwas jealous of her lover. 1 suppose 1t was on account of the two spiritual personalities occupying the same body. Scientifically expressed, my jealousy should be represented by No. Uennie of the fesh) plus zero (Jennie No. 2, to whom I was indif- ferent), the product being one-half.
 Nevertheless l was in love, and one evening while thinking the matter over 1t occurred to me that I could study the case better as Jennie's-I refer to Jennie No. 1-fance than as we were. On the impulse of the moment l went to her house for the purpose of mak- ing a declaration.
 II saw the moment she entered the room that she was her other self.
 q once heard a woman say that if man has made up his mind to a pro- posal nothing that she can say or do will stop him. I had gone to Jennie's house to propose to her, and somehow I could not resist the impelling force. 1 asked her to be my wife. She hesi- tated, then refused me, telling me that she loved another.
 "I had begun this affair with purely scientific motives. Here was an end to 1t. based on human reasons. left tom had dropped out of the universe"
 Here the paper ended abruptly. was much disappointed, hoping to find some confirmation of my uncle's the ory, based on his singular love affair But not another word did I meet with on the subject. One day I was talking about him to a chum of his youth, whom I asked how the doctor came to be bachelor. The reply was that when very young man he had been fin love with a Miss Hatch, who mar ried an old fellow double her age.
 This revelation gave a shock to my for my uncle's scientific until I remembered that when he mistook a girls indicision be- tween himself and another man for a duplex being he was very young. Nev- ertheless. the incident indicated his mental bent and foreshadowed his fu- ture remarkable career as a scientist,
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