“TELEPATHIC MAN”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 3

“TELEPATHIC MAN”

VISION OF THE FUTURE

FOSS IBL E DE YE LOP M E NTS

REVIEW BY SCIENTISTS

LONDON, Sept. 12

A vision of "telepathic man, a bigbrained inhabitant of the world in which thought transference may be as general a, means of communication as is the telephone. was conjured up by Professor .filljail llnxlev. addressing the Zoological Section of the British Association Conference at Blackpool. ‘‘There are faculties, the bare existence of which is scarcely established, said Professor Huxley. ‘‘Those might develop until they are as commonly cl is, tributed as. say. musical or mathematical gifts to-day.

“1 refer’to telepathy and other extrasensory activities of llie mind, of which the work of Rhine, Salter and others is now forcing recognition. “The main pail of any large change in the future must lie- sought in the improvement of the lira in. It we were to adopt some system lor using a lew highly-endowed individuals, directly or from’ tissue cultures, to produce all of the next generation, then all kinds of possibilities would emerge. “Man might develop castes, some ot which at least might lie endowed with altruistic impulses. The conference.' which 2800 scientists are attending, discussed peace and war. health, conscience, diet, the passion lor riches, and the danger of the “old school lie.” with delightful frankness. DEMOLISHING BABEL Professor William Cramp declared : “Kiigiiteering is the greatest, instrument of civilisation the world has ever seen. The. engineer, if left undisturbed by the, politician, the scaremonger, and tin, patriot, would demolish the Tower ot Babel anil render war impossible, ‘lie would build a channel tunnel, making Calais and Dover neighbours, and improving Anglo-Prnieh understand ing in all senses. •T,v the placing of transmitters for television in the trenches and the settingup of receivers at home, war could lie made unthinkable." Dr. William Brown, of Oxford, discussing conscience, advanced the theory that the sense of moral guilt may prolong physical illness. He quoted the ease of a patient with kidney trouble, which dal ed from imagined neglect of filial duly. Another patient suffering from rye ulcers, laboured under the idea that, blindness was the penally of his blasphemy. The condition disappeared after a talk with a sympathetic physician. Sir Daniel Hall (London) pointed out,, that the value of education was that it encouraged or created the habit, of acting on reason rather than on emotion. “Party, country, and religion are (motional issues, constituting the false money with which politicians buy power. HI eu by step, the habit of illusion is Imilt up in -education—the ‘old school tie,’ the club, the regiment, the social class, the nation-—these loyalties are in the.msch’es; excellent; their dangerous, i

f side:is that they breed hatreds of the lessor breeds.” How passion for wealth may lead toil! ness was described by Dr. 11. E. Collier, Birmingham, who remarked “The most important of potentially-dangerous' emotional urges are the lure'of high wages, the fear of unemployment, self-regard, and hvpcrconscientiousness.”