Evening star., 1922-03-26

tho senses. II seems to me that no
fair-minded scientist now can dare to
assert that all the records of such
phenomena are false and call the
many men of eminence who have sub
scribed to them victims of deception
or delusion.
THE acceptance of telepathy car
ries with it no necessity of belief in
any supernatural agency. go a man
blind from birth human communica-
ton by gesture would seem to be un-
thinkaole. Have We all been blind
to some extent? Are we beginning
to find better sight:
Personally. hold it possible that
physical channels for human COM
municAtjon may exist, though neither
the senses nor common experience at
present are able to identify them.
Are we to find them in that vast
scientific field opened by the discov-
cry OF radio activity?
In addition to the so-called wire
less waves used in radio telegraphy
and radio telephony, that field in
cludes literally thousands of physi-
cal realities hitherto unsuspected by
any one.
The some times unweicome convic-
tion that science is on the edge of
wonders beyond our present imegin-
ing has made all advanced investiga-
tabltshed rules and so-called facts
are vanishing by degrees.
For instance, there Is now a dis
tinct possibility of the artificial dis
integration OF the atom, and, if ac-
complished, this might solve not only
all problems Of power creation but
those Of the transmutation Of metals
dream OF tho searchers for the
philosophers stone
uEURTHERMoRE, it might in
crease human energy unimagin-
ably by doing away with the necessi-
ty for food such as now is depended
on. Sir Oliver Lodge says, also. that
the disintegration Of one atom might
be communicated from that atom to
tho next and thus spread like an cpl
demic through all those in the ter
restrial structure. utterly dislnte-
grating. destroying the world on
which we live.
These things are beyond my field.
I mention them casually, not learned
ly: but they bear upon our general
subject Of discussion.
Add the fact that medical science
seems to be approaching the secret
Of prolonging life. and many others
developed or developing. and we must
realize that the age we live in is
fraught with wondrous potentialities.
that this generation or the next may
be held certain to md simple some OF
those things which have been re-
garded AZ complex, to hnd explicable
and manageable some which have
been regarded as beyond mans
power to understand or to control.
PLAINLY there is tho suggestion Of
q possible physical basis for the
theory Of telepathy. 1t may be
drawn from the known facts Of the
nature Of nerve impulses, il, in the
Investigators mind, they be associ-
ated with tho known facts Of wire
less.
Psychologists now agree that
nervous energy is electrical in nature.
Burn your finger or move your toe
and all authorities admit that the
sensation Of pain or the directive
signal passes over or. through your
nerves In the form OF some very fec
bio kind Of electro impulse.
$50 much for the nature Of nerve
energy. Now notA the relation Of
this to wireless. In practical wireless
telegraph and telephony rather pow
erful electrical disturbances must be
employed and sometimes sparks in
yolving hundreds or even thousands
Of volts. Tho strength OF wireless
waves is in accordance with the
strength Of the electrical disturb
ances which set them IN motion. .
X X X
THE practical problem Of wire
L less is the creation Of a wave
strong enough to be felt at dis
tancs by man-mads instruments.
which are crude and comparatively
unssnsitive. Therefore the spark
which 70 to travel far and still AFFECT
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