Natural Telepathy 



sure ; when in its darkness it knew of an external 

 world only by its own tremblings, in response to 

 vibrations which poured over it from every side. 

 Something made it tremble, and that "something" 

 had motion or life like its own. Such, imagina- 

 tively, was the sentient cell's first knowledge, the 

 result of a sense of touch distributed throughout 

 its protecting surface. 



Long afterward came a time when the living cell, 

 multiplied now a millionfold, began to develop 

 special sense-organs, each a modification of its 

 rudimentary sense of touch; one to receive vi- 

 brations of air, for hearing; another to catch some 

 of the thronging ether waves, for seeing; a third 

 to register the floating particles of matter on a 

 sensitive membrane, for taste or smelling. By 

 that time the cell had learned beyond a perad- 

 venture that the universe outside itself had light 

 and color and fragrance and harmony. Finally 

 came a day when the cell, still multiplying and 

 growing ever more complex, became conscious of 

 a new power within itself, most marvelous of all 

 the powers of earth, the power to think, to feel, 

 and to be aware of a self that registered its own 

 impressions of the external world. And then the 

 cell knew, as surely as it knew sound or light, that 

 the universe held consciousness also, and some 

 infinite source of thought and feeling. Such, ap- 

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