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WHAT IS.A
READ BETWEEN THE FINGERS
CHOST? POINTED BARGAINS
MAN NOT MEANT
TO KNOW
By DR. FREDERICK GRAVES
"What is a ghost?" I heard an inquiring young person ask the other day, and the answar was 80 Involved and vague that I could: make neither sensu nor reason of it. What the child made of It I could not imagine,
Is there really auch a thing as o ghost-apart from the phantoms of physical and physiological origin and beyond the figments of legend and the apparitions of disordered mind? Who can say?
We know the physicist and the illusionist can evoke extraordinary spectrea. We know the physioto-{ gist can produce things like the group of Purkinje spectrea, where images appear In the brain from reflections on the retina, and in the | auditory nerves, and which have often given the unscientific the iden of ghost. Doctors know that by holding a light at a certain angle when passing into a dark room a beautiful little ghost can sometimes | be seen to move and disappear into the shadows, and so on.
Then there aro the Armenia startling enough at times-of dis- ordered digestion and especially of certain disturbed and abnormal states, in particular in the raised temperatures and deliriums of cer tain fevers. But we know what they are, or, at all eventa, we do not take them serlously as ghosts.
FROM OTHER REALMS
It is not so many years ago that we might have scoffed at the idea keeping a little box in the sitting room from which we could evoke the conversation of a person speaking In another laud. May we not some day-if we go on at the rate we have the last few years in scientific progress and invention--produce an instrument that will capture and bring to us the emanations of forces from another realm, waves from a region that is at present un- known to us7
If there
ara xhosts-sur-
vivals of personnilty, manifestations
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open mind.
of disembodied spirits, persistences of mentality-may we not some day become attuned to the waves of thought or feeling they may set up? an
Our forefathers | the facts of life the more one is im-appear to be many different Ideas We know now that some of the were very caustic in their disbelief pressed every day that all in the as to what is meant by the term.. animal possess Renses or instincts in such things as telegraphs and universe is governed by the laws of whether there is such a thing as a we do not understand and by their railways; what they would have nature, our human mentality is so disembodied personality that wan aid perceive influences unknown to thought of the aeroplane, the X-ray, limited and tiny a thing we all mustdors about homeless and out of us. Some day we may develop some and wireless can only be left to con- realise that there must be many touch with the living though
the Buch powers us will enable us to jecture.
vast powers and forces it can never
spiritualista) (according to Intercept and capture "wireless" -NOT --MEANT TO KNOW -ALL understand or, for that matter, anxious to communicate, will pro from the spirit world. For though There are plored and charted, more highly organised creatures in because man is not meant to know some vague regiona even imagine. There may be far bably never be known for certain,
commonsense reasoning and science
make it more unlikely every day such as telepathy. Until these have como of those great planets and everything. When, you come to- that there are super-natural agen-been examined and we have climln worlds in space, creations that think of it, it is one of the winest cies abroad, such as the spiritualated all the physical, physiological, would look upon earthly humans as of the dispensations of Providenco 1st claim, still it is not safe to-day and psychological, we cannot say wo look upon mere germs in the that man may learn of the past, to say such things are not.
there is no such thing as a ghost. wayside puddle.
realise the present, but may not. We can only be humble and keep For though the more one delves into What is a ghost? There would penetrate the vell of the future.
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