MEDIUM 231 



Man 



Knowing that colours are different modes of 

 vibration, one can understand Dr Eamon y 

 Cajal's meaning when he says that the senses, 

 especially the hearing and the sight, are definite 

 collectors of undulatory movements, and why Max 

 Nordau calls them registering apparatus. 



Hence one can see with all its consequences the 

 relation between the external and internal, and 

 that man is a product of universal mechanics. 



Let us take the case of a painter : in order that 

 he may be able to reproduce colour with accuracy 

 it is necessary that his eyes be good specific 

 collectors of those different rhythms that constitute 

 all the varied scale of colours, without which 

 requirement he will not be able to represent these 

 colours as they are. A painter will be all the more 

 accurate in his colours the better his adaptation to 

 light, that is, the external to the visual centres of 

 the artist, the internal. To be a good colourist 

 depends on this aptitude of the eyes to be good 

 specific collectors of movements. 



Man, to be healthy, must live in harmony with 

 the natural laws ; otherwise he degenerates as an 

 individual and as a species. 



It is established to-day in biological science that 



