36o PRESENT-DAY RATIONALISM 



about an enlargement of the muscles ; so thought causes 

 the brain to respond and develop itself accordingly. 



Conversely, disuse will cause atrophy of both the body 

 and brain. 



Materialists base their disbelief in the possibility of 

 immortality of the soul on its intimate connection with 

 the physical nature of the brain ; but they have nothing 

 to say about the possible existence of a " spiritual " or 

 more accurately "ethereal " body; to which I have alluded 

 in speaking upon " Thought Revealing". If the living 

 soul consist of ethereal vibrations, there is nothing to 

 disprove the possibility or probability of thought being 

 transmitted to a distance as ethereal waves of a peculiar 

 length, and thus establish telepathic communications, 

 somewhat like wireless telegraphy in physics.^ 



If the preceding be any approximation to the truth, 

 then the essential thing is that the soul and its ethereal 

 counterpart may be separated from the grosser material 

 one which it is obliged to have in this world in order to 

 hold ordinary intercourse with other souls and apprehend 

 all terrestrial phenomena. 



Rationalists and Monists would limit all possibilities 

 of acquiring knowledge to the senses ; and what they 

 cannot take in, they say, need not be believed in as true ; 

 but our senses are greatly limited. In sight we only see 

 a fragment of the spectrum ; a cat is better off than we 

 are. A dog's perception of smell is far keener than ours.- 



But there are higher perceptions than mere response 

 to sight, sound, smelling, etc. 



' The reader will find this discussed by Dr. Minot Judsoii Savage in 

 his Life beyond Deaths who " knows beyond question a case of telepathy 

 between the Indian Ocean and New York," p. 263. 



'^ As the authors of The Unseen Universe have replied to ten objec- 

 tions to an immaterial existence, I will content myself by referring the 

 reader to their refutation (pp. 202-210). 



