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We further understand how un- Thif* being adm itted, m any ohjec-
I have b e e n the reservoir of the shall we find the key to these in
conscious cerebration is able to per- lions to the Scientific theory of a sorrows of so m any wives and strum ents by which we m ay draw’
form such a heavy piece of work consciousness-phenom enon fall to m others of intem perate men, that our loved ones at m idnight to th eir
noislessly and, presently, after a the ground of themselves.
The my soul cries out fos some new homes? Should not the m others
very long incubation, w ill reveal theory is com pleted, without having power to rescue these degenerates of the race have a voice in the out-
itself through unexpected results,
been weakened.
from slow but sure destruction.
ward conditions our cities, and in
Every state of consciousness repre-
We must bear in m ind th at to
all the disappointm ents of all the influences th a t lead our sons
gents only a very inconsiderable UH consciousness is not an entity.
bone can equal that of
a to the h au n ts of vice? Would not
portion of our psychic life, because but a sum of states of which each m other, as she watches a son, day their opinions give us a higher
every in stan t it is supported and, ¡g a phenom enon of a particular by day, on the downward
path to moral code in governm ent, religion
as it were, impelled by unconscious kind, bound up w ith certain con- ruin. H er sorrow is more hopeless and social life? To this end, we
states. Each volition, for exam ple ditions of the activity of the brain, than th a t of the artist, who sees m ust train women to a higher self-
dives to the very depths of our he- which exists when they exist, ¡g his picture or statu e destroyed by respect, and their sons to a greater
ing; the motives th a t accompany )acking when they are absent, some reckless hand, for he can pro- reverence for their m other’s charac-
they dissappear.
duce another. W’e pity the Presi- ter and opinions. Women m ust be
and apparently explain it, are nev- disappears when n they
dissappea
er but a feeble p art of its true Hence it follows th a t the sum of dential candidate in a heated elec- em ancipated from the bondage of
cause.
The same takes place in a |be states of consciousness in man ' tion, in his defeat, but he may have the past before they can exercise
great num ber of our sym pathies, ¡s very inferior to the sum of the another o p p o rtu n ity ; and the arch- their highest influence in guiding
and this fact is to such a degree nervous actions [reflexes of every Meet of some beautiful vessel or their children arig h t, in the educa-
m anifest th at even m inds com plete order from the most sim ple to the i m agnificent cathedral, suddenly tion of the rising generation, and in
ly d estitu te of observation, will of most com pound.]
To be more wrecked by flood or fire, hut hecan regulating the conditions of the
We m ourn with outside world.
ten wonder at being unable to ex precise:
during the lapse of say build another.
As D ante says; “ To woman alone
plain to themselves their aversions five m inutes there is product d in the rich man who, through sad re
or sym pathies.
us a successive series of sensations, verses, is reduced to poverty, hut belongs the moral power to draw
W e m an from the hells to heaven.”
Consciousness in itself,
and feelings, images, ideas, acts.
It is he may redeem his fortune.
through itself is really a new fac possible to count them , and to de sym pathize with the young girl,
Sand H ills and Religion.
tor, and in this there is nothing term ine their num ber with tolera whose affections have been wasted
either m ystical or su p ern a tu ral, as ble certainty.
D uring the same on an unw orthy object, hut she may
BY LUTHER L. BERNARD.
love
again
;
but
what
are
all
these
will presently be seen.
lapse of time, in the same m an,
In itself, indeed, it is but a light there will be produced a much disappointm ents to the love of a
Old Ben Johnson, speaking of
without efficacy, merely the simple greater num ber of nervous actions. m other, who has gone to the very certain m atters philosophic, once
revelation of an unconscious work; Conscious personality, accordingly, gates of death, to give life to an said: “ F oods throw up heaps of
b u t in relation to the development cannot be a representation of all im m ortal being—-the ohject of her sand, hut other floods come and
of the individual it is a factor of th a t takes place in the nervous constant care day bv day and tear them dow n.” And we m ight
the first order. W hat is true of the centers; it is but an extract, a syn m onth by m onth— w atching his apply this to religious and other
growing intelligence, wi’h intense great world influences ju st as well.
individual is also tru e of the spec opsis of it.
ies, and of the succession species.
The unity of the ego, in a psy satisfaction, with all his promises Since man began an intelligent his
From the sole point of view of the chological sense, is, therefore, the of b rillian t youth and successful tory, how m any religions he m ust
survival of the fittest, and irrespec cohesion, during a given time, of a m anhood, and lo! all is suddenly have had! We can see the rem ains
tive of all psychological consider certain num ber of clear states of dashed to pieces; a dem on, stronger of them w herever we can find the
Perhaps the most
ations, the appearance of conscious consciousness,
accom panied
by than m o th er’s love, or m anhood’s relics of man.
ness upon earth was a fact of the others lees clear, and by a m u lti am bition has turned her hopes to conspicuous thing to us now, in u n
earth in g antique evidences of h u
greatest m agnitude.
Through it tude of physiological state, which despairs, her joys to miseries.
In my early m arried life I had a man life, is the evidence of relig
experience, th at is, an adaptation without being accompanied by con
of a higher order, became possible sciousness like the others, yet o p dear friend, who watched in suc ions, everyw here present. Most of
to the organic anim al.
erate as much and even more cession three sons, in tu rn , dying the relics of prehistoric men in
The
I t is probable th a t consciousness than the former.
U nity, in fact, with delirium trem ens. I was with America are religious ones.
has been produced like any other m eans co-ordination.
The con her on the last sad occasion and m ounds are supposed to have been
vital m anifestation, at first in a clusion to be draw n from the above witnessed the agony of the poor temple seats, and the designs on
rudim entary form, and apparently rem arks is nam ely this, th a t the sufferer torm ented with horrible their pottery are illu strativ e of re
without great efficacy.
But from consensus of consciousness being visions, crying in agonized tones, ligious rites and performances. E s
the moment it was able tc leave be subordinate to the consensus of the “ O! save me, m other; Oh! save me pecially do we see this in E gypt
hind a vestige, to constitute in the organism , the problem of the unity m other,” the erv growing fainter and India.
But nowhere do we now find the
anim al a m em ory for the psychic of the ego, is in its ultim ate form, and fainter until the gloom of
sense, utilizing its past for the prof a biological problem .
To biology night was lost in the dawn of day. sam e religions th at were in exist
its of its future, from th a t m om ent pertains the task of explaining, if when the voice was heard no more. ence contem porary with the earliest
T he religons
a new chance of survival was crea it can, the genesis of organism s In the longtw ilight of th at m other’s relics now ex tan t.
ted. To unconscious ad ap tatio n , and the solidarity of their com pon life, there was naught to alleviate now existing in China cannot, any
blind, incidental, dependent upon ent parts. Psychological in terp re her sorrows, naught to com pensate of them , go back farth er than 2500
years, and yet the Chinese say they
circum stances, there was added a tation can only follow in its wake. her loss.
Nicola Tesla says, the tim e is can trace th eir history 25000years.
conscious ad aptation, uniform, de T his we have attem pted to dem on
pendent upon the anim al, surer strate in detail by the exposition not far d ista n t, when with two in No early or superstitious nation
and more rapid th an the other; and discussion of morbid cases. stru m en ts perfectly attu n ed , plac ever did w ithout religion; then how-
and the latter has shortened the At this point then, our present ed on the shores of China and the m any religions, indeed, m ust China
task ends.—[‘‘The Diseases of P er United States, we shall he able to have had up to 2500 years agol
work of selection.
sonality.”
telegraph w ithout a wire, m ind to But a few hundred years before,
To repeat once again our former
to mind and th o u g h t to thonght. In d ia found her own dogmas so
statem ent:
consciousness itself is
A Spiritual Telegraph.
W hy may not the tim e come, when outgrown and useless, th a t she was
but a phenom enon, only an accom
waiting, w atching, weeping wives constrained to accept Buddhism
panim ent. If there exists anim als,
BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
and m others, at the fireside can from a newer and more progressive
in which it 'should appear and dis
A distinguished G eneral in the with perfectly attu n ed spiritual in faction.
appear at each in stan t, w ithout
E g y p t’s theology died a long
leaving any traces, it would be array told me, long ago, th at in his strum ents, call home their hus
strictly correct to call such a n i youthful dissipation, he often heard bands and sons from their mid- while ago, and yet she has been
mals spiritual autom atons; but if his m other so distinctly calling him night carousels, touching a respon- termed the very cradle of dark and
the state of consciousness leaves frora his m idnight festivities, in a sive chord, heard only by the lov- m ysterious beliefs; in fact, the foun
a vestige, a registration in the or- voice heard by him alone; that he ed ones of their tender care. W hy tain-head from which most of
ganism, in such cases it does not laid down his cards and glass, and may not scientists in due tim e, Greece’s antiquated m yths sprang,
act merely as an indicator, but as hastened home, m aking some hur- discover th at there are moral and But the religions of Egypt had
a condenser.
The m etaphor of an ried excuse to his comrades for his sp iritu al laws corresponding with 1 changed, and even the beliefs of
autom aton is no longer acceptable, sudden departure.
i those in the m aterial world? W here different castes were not the sam e.