DIVINER'S MAGIC

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23106, 4 February 1937, Page 7

DIVINER'S MAGIC

10 THE EDITOR Si r —I agree with what your correspondent " Lux " has to say with regard to Dr Henderson's remarks in connection with divining "that, except for searching for water, its use was now generally abandoned." It seems to me only a few years ago that the scientist ridiculed the man who set out to divine even for water. Our scientific dignitaries move very slowly, let me tell you, on account, I think, of their efforts ever being so closely connected with earth. "Lux" finishes his letter with the well-known lines from " Hamlet." I prefer to turn to " King Henry VI. wherein we find the following lines (Act 2):—

No, no, I am but shadow of myself. You are deceived, my substance is not here, For what you see is but the smallest part And least proportion of humanity. I tell you, Madam, were the whole frame here

It is of such spacious lofty pitch, Your roof were not sufficient to contain it. When mankind is sufficiently far advanced to be able to read the foregoing literally, he will have some realisation of how very, very small is this—the manifest form—of the Real Individual, and have much greater appreciation of his possibilities. Have these possibilities any limit? I do not know, but I doubt it.—l am, etc., Nemo.