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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.