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out o£ work.What Will Happen Then?Mark Twain calls for the invention of the phrenophone, an instrument which will enable mankind to read one another’s thoughts through infinite distances, directly, without need of cable, telephone or telegraph. He would have a sort of psychic telegraph, so to speak, which could utilize the thought current whose existence many begin to believe in —tap it and make it carry instantly thoughts from one brain to another, howsoever far removed the other brain might he. The famous humorist himself has had experiences in which, without the aid of any instrument, the thoughts of his own bruin have flashed into the brain of another, even to the very words Mr. Clemens was about to utter. In the new psychic developments which the race is expected to attain there is reason to fear this kind of thought reading may become common, terribly common. What then is to become of civilized man? *Civilized speech is a method of showing to others largely what we do not think. If you believe in your soul a raau is a liar, but do not dare tell him so, what will you do when ho reads your mind like an open book? When a fashionable woman treats cordially a dear friend whom she instantly falls on and talks about horribly the moment the dear friend is out of sight, how will she feel to have the lady suddenly open the door and repeat out of her own thought reading consciousness every word that has been said? Terriblo times there will be then. The only safety will bo in never thinking a wrong thing about anybody. In view of the possible near approach of this new psychic development, perhaps we might begin now to think only such thoughts as wo would bo willing to have all the world read.That Voice Again.A fatal objection has been brought against the possible candidacy of Cardinal Gibbons for the papal chair in case of the death of his holiness, Leo XUL The objection is brought by a European writer, R, de Cesare, and it is this: Cardinal Gibbons speaks 110 langtiago but English, and the enormity of the offense becomes double dyed by the announce ment that ho “speaks it with a misal twang, like all North Americans.. This is indeed terrible. If that nasal twang of us of the United States is going to keep Cardinal Gibbons from bo ing pope, then are wo far gone indeed, Cardinal Gibbons, good, honest American that he is, so offends the sensitive foreign ear by his nasal twang that it is mentioned as a serious reason why ho should not bo pope. “It. do Cesare, who evidently would fight bitterly agaist any American candidate for the papal succession, seems a bio to find nothing graver than this to bring against the Baltimore cardinal, which is a compliment indeed to him.But is not this the place to draw the lino about that “nasal twang in the American voice? It is there, no doubt of that. It is as certainly there as the misplaced li’s of the British cocknoy. But it is nothing that we cannot get rid of, and that easily. When it is brought forward as something which should keep distinguished gentlemen from preferment, then it is time to take leave of it at onco and forever.It is cheerful to note a prospect that
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Carroll Sentinel
Carroll, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 11, 1891
Page 15
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