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judge and jury. Guilt will proclaim itself and 

 stand confessed before those it has wronged. 



Science is anticipating this era when Truth shall 

 stand unveiled (and incidentally preparing the 

 minds of men to receive that Truth graciously in- 

 stead of doubting the testimony of their own eyes) 

 through the invention of instruments of wondrous 

 delicacy that ingeniously enact the role of Grand 

 Inquisitor, but without putting any screws on defy 

 man to conceal the nature of his thoughts, whether 

 he be guilty or innocent, angry or calm, melan- 

 choly or gay, studious or idle. And all this, note 

 well, is achieved through registering the vibrat- 

 ing currents of the unspoken thought as well as of 

 the speech of the subject. 



Moreover, that these thoughts take body and 

 form as they arc sent forth, is proved by Dr. Bara- 

 duc's clever use of the camera. He has seized 

 upon the photographic plate the exact form of 

 these invisible emanations radiating from the hu- 

 man being. Dr. Baraduc calls his photographs, 

 " Portraits of the Soul " ; but it were better to rec- 

 ognize them as indisputable, permanent pictures of 

 all the activities of the human subject, whether 

 they be on the lowest physical plane or aspirations 

 of the soul. It is a most important service that 

 these photographs fully establish by material proof 

 the fact that every thought has its distinctive form. 



That the rays from the human being are further 



