TELEPATHY.

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 3

TELEPATHY.

TO THE EDITOR. . r > The article on ‘Telepathy,’ appearin'' m your issue of this evening, indicates clearly that some of the greatest of modern scicntilic thinkers are of opinion that thought can bo transferred from mind to mind quite independent of the brain. If that be into certain inferences appear to bo inevitable! ihe brain is but the physical instrument of the nv.ncl. The mind is controlled and directed by the man—the thinker—through the instrumentality of the will. Now, who or what is this “controller,” this “thinker,” tms wilier . Does transient physical mat ter generate an intelligent and conscientious loice, which dominates and survives it 5 van a mere instrument evolve a skilled user 3 Lau the eye produce a seer, the ear a hearer the vocal apparatus a full-souled singer 3 Hi other words, does an “immortal soul” come _ info being” at physical birth? To my mind that is quite unthinkable. This inudtbcd, vesture or decay” is, life afte'me, ‘but the stuff to try the soul's strength ou aim, as Wordsworth finely expresses it: T w ro” 1 , th , at , ris rt with us—our life star—rtath bad elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar. T ' E ' B “' IVAIPORI. TO THE EDITOR. , Slr >—l don't profess to know verv much aoout electricity in genera], and very little else concerning IVaipori, which is’ about the sum total of the knowledge of some of oiu City councillors on the same subject, but I do know this : that IVaipori will one. ot these days stagger this City by the shock that it will inflict unless our City Council call a halt. The return obtained from the present colossal outlay cannot from a commercial standpoint lie looked upon as assuring, and if the City of Duneain has to look to a small, struggling seaside hamlet like Port Chalmers to help it out of the rut, well—we ratepayers are in for a real good time. I our enrrespondev, 1 . “Ratepayer” says that ho hopes that an emphatic "No” will be the council's answer on Wednesday night,_ when the matter comes up for discussion. I am of the same mind, too. and, like many other ratepayers. am watching the attitude of certain of our representatives in this matter. I am, etc., Another Ratepayer. January I. TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—Your correspondent “ Ratepayer ” struck the mark when he said that enough of the City's finance has been, expended in the past on useless projects without further saddling the City with further liability over this IVaipori scheme. It is, indeed, a pity that certain of our councillors do not assert themselves. I, like " Ratepayer,” appended my name to the petition, and 1 too am watching what our council intend doing. Hoping that the proposal will be defeated at to-morrow's meeting—l am, etc., Pull Up. January 7.