KNOWLEDGE 



hydrogen, but rather makes me cons 

 It may be eaid that there ii n^ 

 idea, and that we cannot think of < 



think, picture that particular act b 

 person; nevertheless, in every caf( 

 the thought reader apparently picti: 

 • "■ Uet 



lethin, 

 a little 



is very like a key." All the cxpcrira 



and that' the experiments were scloc 

 like to know what the experiments i 

 unworthy of record." It would h 

 pose that, it this rudimentary i 

 few possess it. If it eiists in 

 degree as thought-reading exper 

 ordinary individua" 



and g' 



s them to a: 



1 the 

 ! perso 



a word unless he Sf 

 personal experience is, th.it I can gus 

 properly seen all the letters, or 1 must 

 arranging the letters according to their i 

 I need to think t 



any i 





themselve 



particular 



suggested a particular word 



the arranging themselves un( 



explained. But si 



of i 



the ) 

 isible, what otliei 



asly into 



the i« 



ment of letters does go on 

 instance, frequently when a 

 remember is the lirst letter, th 

 not all, of the letters, but v 

 of the answers gi\en by the 

 is produced, I'or example, tha 

 "Albert Snelgrove," but the ans« 

 and " Albert Grovcr." Here the 



ngly a 



thought-reader ii 

 clear that no progress can I 

 readmg phenomena until it 

 the ordinary brain. In my ( 

 of picturing the thought, I 

 convey the idea, but this i-, 

 I suspect the thought-re;id< 

 having taken in the id.i, 

 idea and not the idea fr. 

 thinking that when . , 

 thought immediai ' 



recall S( 



find 



he word before I have 

 it out mechanically by 

 probable combinations, 

 iiiise before I had time 



ing the word was thinking 

 and thought-transference 

 is explained. Nevcrthe- 



'en are "Albert yingrove" 

 must be different, for in 

 I have forgotten, but the 



of I 



)t preo. 



mple ideas 



led cithei 



motion a particle. A', in a brain, ] 

 r to idea, C ; that A B and C s ta 

 dC. The main dil 





•thre 



persi 



ring a 



seems to 

 I experi- 



but th 



e, and how does the thonght-reader select the right one ? 

 ibly tliis is the explanation of thought-reading. Thought- 

 s not a particular or peculiar power of reading thought, 



i list 



3 pers. 



their a 

 )wd of talkers, w 



dar 



in one should produce similar mole- 

 e colours different shades with my 

 my left. Mr. Proctor somewhere 

 short-sighted and the other long- 



nilar idea 



;nty per; 



the BJ 



nilar as the theor 



of dirt 





quite 



explai, 



3ms to 



physiologically the fact of a certain molecular 



cmg a certain idea will ever be demonstrated or not, 



rtaiii that for every thought there is a corresponding 



tion in the brain. 



lating boys work out sums nnconsciously, which 

 ns require pencil and paper for, seems more easily 

 a theory of thought-reading than in any other way, as 

 t ns the intellect grows.* How we are able to follow 

 the argument of a lecturer on a difficult subject by means of our 

 ears alone (in some of us very imperfect organs) I do not know, 

 unless our brains get into accord in someway; for frequently I 

 have known the meaning of what a lecturer has said, and yet when 

 I have trifd to catch his exact words have found I could not dis- 

 tinguish them. On the other hand, I have frequently read a 

 sentence over and over again without getting any meaning out 



Any one playing with young chess-players must have noticed 

 how often, after waiting ten minutes or so for his adversary's 

 move, which eventually is the wrong one (say lea 

 prise), that the young player, just as the hand is s 

 take the piece without ever having touched the men, shouts out, 

 te, please, I see a better move," and immediately 

 nut nf danger. Of course, some one may say it is no 

 1 tliaii seeing a revoke the moment you have exposed 

 -■ .11' iitunato trick of young whist-players — but 

 I some one else sees the revoke first. I 

 ' •transference is admitted, it will explain 

 '. Ii are now either called coincidences, or 



LKTTER.S KECEIVED AND SHORT AXS^YEKS. 



mg a pie( 



" Wait a 



me, therefore, for the 11 



should bo a simjile one. 



produces a certain ide; 



[• 1 am entirely in 

 nphorism of Lord Bacon 

 hit than when tliey mis 

 gatioDs as those on whit 



i> MoRG.\N Brown. 



[* I think ii u.... L. .\:^.v,..„ 

 of calculation rathir pointed to 

 of numbers j perhaps akin to Ic 



