Natural Telepathy 



tides into good and bad, or helpful and harmful. 

 A cell over which vibrations of air and ether were 

 continually passing might be forced for its own 

 good to develop an ear and an eye to receive such 

 vibrations as sound and light; and a cell over 

 which mysterious waves of thought and emotion 

 were ceaselessly flowing might be driven to com- 

 prehend that particular mystery by developing a 

 thought and emotion of its own. 



I do not say that this is the right answer; I 

 mention it merely as a speculative possibility, in 

 order to get our alleged scientific mind out of its 

 deep rut of habit by showing that every road has 

 two sides, though a man habitually use only one; 

 and that Reason or Law or God, or whatever you 

 choose to call the ultimate mainspring of life, is 

 quite as apt to be found on one side of the road as 

 on the other. Inner necessity is not a whit more 

 logical or more explanatory than external force or 

 compulsion when we face the simple fact that an 

 animal now sees and feels in the light instead of 

 merely existing in darkness, or that primitive cells 

 which were dimly sentient have now become as 

 thinking gods, knowing good and evil. 



What this thought of ours is we do not know. 

 Beyond the fact that we have it and use it, thought 

 still remains a profound mystery. That it is a 

 living force of some kind; that it projects itself 



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