action. Each part of the mind diffuses a particular influence all over the constitution, and the influences that have emanated from all the parts constitute "sensation," or the lightning of the nervous system; and, inasmuch as human beings are organized upon the same principle, so it happens that an influence imparted to another awakens in that other effects analogous to those felt by the one who imparted it. Thus a combative person, on imparting his organal influence, will cause another to experience identical sensations. The same is true of every organ.

These facts are familiar to modern psychologists. They stand in the gateway between heaven and earth-preventing at once too great credulity and too much doubt-for such facts demonstrate, not only that the nature of man is double, but also that he is not the cause of all spirit phenomena. The automatic hemisphere of mind is quite as marvellous as is the counterhemisphere of voluntary powers; and, when truly studied, man becomes as much of a wonder before death, as when he returns in the estate of spirit.

It would seem that man's own spirit ofttimes continues the process originally instigated by invisible intelligences. They may diffuse an influence upon his nervous system, which, entering into chemical combination with the sensitive elements, they (the spirits) can neither control nor extract from their sub ject. It is evident that many spirits have little knowledge of their own abilities to control the influence they cast upon their fellow men. The consequence is, that what should be voluntary, and under the control of the wishes or will of the subject, becomes, instead, automatic and beyond management.

Man's Telegraphic Power.

The question is: Can the spirit within the earth body converse with another spirit in earth body without regard to distance of separation; and, if so, under what conditions?

ANSWER. The sublime science of spirit telegraphing is yet hidden in the laws of action and reaction, which pervade, and more or less obviously govern, all forms and gradations of matter. Every organ in the brain, and every ganglionic center in the visceral department, has its own peculiar sympathies. These sympathies are distinct and available. The superior organs generate exalted and expansive influences, which radiate over all other organs in the same body, and outwardly, also, to immense distances; and these influences are positively certain to touch and affect, in a similar manner, the corresponding organs and centers in other persons, whether they be absent or present.

The entire history of mankind demonstrates the foregoing principle. When a kingdom is involved in war, or when a people cherish combative and warlike feelings, the populations of both foreign and contiguous kingdoms are certain to realize a corresponding moral, and perhaps political disturbance. Thus, too, a frightful murder committed in one part of a great city, or small village, is almost certain to be immediately succeeded by several crimes of like magnitude and corresponding severity. Of rapes, suicides, accidents, robberies, treachery, falsehoods, mistakes, errors, &c., the same is undeviatingly and irresistibly true. The murder mania is thus explainable on philosophical principles. Not understanding this law of action. and reaction, an exchange says: "There must be some evil influence in the air, spreading murderous contagion, for murder has become epidemic. Besides the home tragedies that have recently appalled our city, the telegraph brings us intelligence of others perpetrated at the same time in various parts of the Union. Every day brings its record of fresh murders and attempts to murder, and it is a noticeable characteristic of the present bloody mania, that women and children are the most

frequent victims." Now it is plain that the author of the foregoing remarks did not realize the law of social sympathy that underlies all social phenomena.

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'Behold what a great fire a little matter kindleth!" A turbulent and wayward character in the habitation of angels, would excite like feelings, and provoke like conditions in the most amiable and lovely. Reason, on this law, appeals to reason, love to love, hate to hate, disease to disease, health to health, virtue to virtue, vice to vice, crime to crime; for the laws of social intercourse and brotherhood are universal, and it is folly of the sickliest kind to expect harmony in a part of the world, while all other parts are telegraphing the messages of discord into the finest deeps of the sympathetic soul.

Unlimited mental intercourse and social sympathy, therefore, are productive of either pain or pleasure. Effects will correspond to the generative conditions. We are desired to define the conditions. Nothing is easier, or more simple, or more certain of demonstration. What is true of two individuals, will apply equally to any two kingdoms or nations. The psycho-telegraphic law of one isolated soul, in the secrets of its own dual constitution, is the law of telegraphing between any two souls through any distance. What is the law, and what the conditions of its operations, in the individual? Briefly these:

Feet telegraph their sensations to the brain. There are hundreds of material obstacles and prominences between them, yet they sympathize and converse. Foot says: "I am lame and sore from over-walking." Brain receives the telegraphic message, and responds: "You shall be comforted." Foot replies: "Thank you-hope you'll keep your promise." In this familiar manner each organ converses with every other organ, and then they all, individually and collectively, report

at headquarters-at the universally acknowledged seat of government-the mind, which is enthroned at the mountain top of all organizational existence.

What are the conditions? Manifestly these: that foot and brain be connected by some subtile cords of sympathetic contact. The same cords are necessary between all other parts and extremities. But how can these conditions exist between two congenial souls, "wide as the poles asunder," and in the external world? Thus: by a mutual understanding that, at a given hour of the day or night, when all the rest of the world is shut out of the charmed circle, each will think a certain kind and number of thoughts with reference to the other, with all that distinctness and earnestness which would naturally characterize a familiar face-to-face conversation. The amount of time to be consumed in thinking such thoughts, and the exact method of arranging them into sentences, or questions and answers, should be a matter of prior mutual understanding. Note down every thought that bolts in upon the mind while so telegraphing. In this way a melodious concert of sweet sympathies will be organized; after which, notwithstanding the immense distances, the twain may commune on the principle of the magnetic telegraph. We will cheerfully give more on these important points, if it be desired.

In one short sentence let us commit ourself to the longcherished conviction that, in the not far future of this life, mankind will enjoy telegraphic intercourse independently of physical agents and machinery.

Nature's Progressive Energies.

Nature's heart is filled with forces and principles of perfection, and nothing can resist their ultimate manifestation. A strongly constituted man, for example, will recover from sick

ness in spite of blue pills and the lancet. So the whole body of mankind, being filled with every adequate energy, and with conquering principles, will make progress in spite of earthquakes, epidemics, bad religions, oppressive governments, and destructive wars.

It is true, however, that sections of Nature (below the spiritual Man) constitute a kind of War Department—a West Point Academy-where the quadruped brain (which yet remains in some men) acquires the art of living by means of violence and bloodshed. Life feasts upon death. Construction employs Major-General Destruction to superintend the progressive advancement of organic existence. That which lives in the world depends upon that which dies in the world. Destruction spreads the table for the support of construction. All departments of Nature, therefore, are regulated by the mutually operative wings of Progress, viz: Destruction and Construction, or Death and Life, or War and Peace. The bird eats the fly, the owl eats the bird, the hawk eats the owl, man kills the hawk, and so all the way up the steps of the organic growth; and yet we hold that Human Beings are not designed to be influenced and educated by our inferiors-by the fish, and birds, and animals, that live and breathe at the foot of the throne on which mankind sits-" a little lower than the angels."

Minerals, vegetables, and animals, climb up to the production and position of Mankind by means of force-won possessions. Beasts have war establishments in their brain, and teeth, and claws. Race eats race, as streams run into streams, to make the ultimate. Force and violence are natural, until the spiritual is reached; then the spiritual is the natural, and force and war are monstrous and unnecessary. Let each reader ask himself this question: "Is war congenial to my reason and affections?" If the spirit within shall whisper "yes," then