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H\x Month!....*............. 7$Three Months............... MWhat 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 be. The famous humorist himself has had experiences in which, without the aid of any instrument, the thoughts of his own brain 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 yon believe in your soul a man is a liar, but do not dare tell him so, what will you do when he 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 tbonght reading consciousness every word that has been said? Terrible times there will be then. The only safety will be in never thinking a wrong thing about anybody. In view of the possible near approach of this newpsyehio development, perhaps we might begin now to think only such thoughts as w© would be will-* ing to have all the world read.wid the plai of T the res’ raai hig Ha] bar it is iroi Ii fort bulj tho trat artr one ona exti will evei Stal of i poli poii acrlt; SouLwilwoiwriwo:colwhBufcizwrionprcpofnoou:letCO!
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Le Mars Globe
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 25, 1891
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Caroline A.
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