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Mental Telegraphy.Under this head Mark Twain writes tor Harper’s Magazine what is for him an unusual kind of article. He declares that in his estimation the Psychic society has done mankind an incalculable service in hunting up and recording truthful stories of haunted houses, clairvoyance, visions and ghosts. Mark Twain’s own queer experiences hnvo been in various directions, but in nono inoro remarkable than in the matter of letters “crossing.” It has happened to him so often to write after long delay to some person from whom ho wished to hear, and no sooner get his letter written than ha would receive one from the individual addressed, that lie lias become superstitious about it, He says now that when ho very much desires to hear from any person ho sits down and compels that person to write to him. Ho merely writes a letter to the individual, but does not send it. He tears it up after it is written and then waits. In due course abettor is sure to come.Among otiier startling experiences liu mentions instances in which precisely the sumo idea has occurred to two diifer* ent authors at the same time, and both have published their ideas. In such cases it is almost impossible to bolioYU that 0110 1ms not plagiarized from thu other, but in the instances uamed this Was plainly impossible.Mark wants this fascinating subject investigated. Wo want to understand how to transfer thought directly from onomimVto another a thousand miles away. We want, in short, a now invention:This idio does seem to lmvu exhausted invention nearly. .Still, It has ouo important contract on its hands yet, the invention of tin plirenoplione—that is to say, a method whcrebj tho communicating of mind with ntiiul may be brought under command and reduced to certainly and system. Tho telegraph and the telephone are going to become loo stow and wordy for our needs. Wu must have thlt; thought itself shot into our minds frum a dis-tuncu; then, if wo need to put It into words, wc can do that tedious work at uur leisure. Doubtless the something which conveys oui thoughts through thy air from bruin to braiu Is a finer ami subtler form of electricity, and all wu need *hi is to iliul out how to capture it and how to foreo it to do iu work, iuj we bavu hud to do in tho case of electric currentsbill'll isll itto- H lTlinco
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Carroll Sentinel
Carroll, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 03, 1891
Page 3
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