UNOtRWOCD & UNCERWOOO, R V.
GENUINE GAINSBOROUGH COMES TO LIFE
An authentic portrait by Gainsborough, painted in the 1760’s, the redis
covery of which by Grovsner B. Clarkson, former Director of the U. S. Coun
cil of National Defense, has stirred the art world. The subject, Mrs. David
Garrick, wife of England’s greatest actor, was a friend of Dr. Johnson, Gib
bon and Horace Walpole. She is buried in Westminister Abbev. Valued '
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by experts at more than $20,000,the painting passed unrecognized through a !
New York auction sale and cost Mr. Clark less than $1,000. It was later com- ;
pletely authenticated.
Edison Believes Speech
With Dead By Special
Machines Is Possible
WIZARD DOES NOT DENY HE IS
TRAINING MEN TO TRY TO
COMMUNICATE WITH DEAD
ORANGE, N. J„ Feb. 24.—The sec-1
retary who arranged the interview j
with Thomas A. Edison volunteered
the admonition: “You mustn’t ask i
Mr. Edison about communication
with the dead. Mr. Edison has been f
so misrepresented in regard to that
delicate matter that it you mention
it ot him he will go right up in the
air.”
Despite this dire warning, the for
bidden question was the first one
ventured:
“Do you think it possible, Mr. Edi
son, that you may devise any
mechanism through which when we
have left this life, you may hope to
communicate with us?”
The wonder wizard of communica
tion did not go up in the air. He
answered graciously and fully. But
he was cautious against misquota
tion. He took a pencil and a pad
and wrote carefully this fundamen
tal part of his statement:
“If my theory is correct—that the
machine called man is only a mass
of dead matter and that the real life
is in the millions of individual units
which navigate this machine, and if
on the destruction of the machine
they keep together, including those
individuals, which have charge of
memory (which is our personality)—
then I think it is possible to devise
apparatus to receive communications
if they desire to make them. It will
be very difficult, as each individual
is beyond the limits of our having
microscope.”
Having thus marked securely his
metes and bounds, Mr. Edison re
laxed into frank talk. He stoutly
insisted that he be understood as not
meaning any such moot thing as j
“spiritistic messages, so-called.”
Real Messages Possible.
He means messages as substantial
and as susceptible of authentication>
as are those of the telegraph, tele
phone, phonograph and radio. There
shall be no “medium,” no mystery,
no superstition, no “autohypnotism
known as faith.” His method, to
serve it all, must absolutely guar
antee the integrity of the communi
cation it conveys and guard positive
ly against any possible doubt, dispute
or misconstruction.
It goes without saying that com
municatioii with the dead, thorougiiy
authenticated, as Edison says he
must have it, would instantly revo
tionize all generally accepted theo
ries regarding human existence, re
veal a new science of the essence of
life and open up vast newr visions as
to the nature and ultimate function
of matter.
“I see nothing of that sort in the
individual any more than in a hive
of bees or in a city; each is only an
aggregate of cells or individuals, and
the community itself, aside from the
aggregation and organization of
units, has no existence. The human
personality is not a thing apart from
the aggregate cells; and at dissolu
tion of the cells personally ceases.
“Then immortality is a myth?”
“1 see no reason to believe that
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I the human personality will be im
mortal any more then one of my
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! tal. But that is not saying that
death ends all.”
Edison’s theory of life, he says, is
his only through his acceptance of
much that has been developed by
many other minds. For some years
lie has beeu in accord with the ele
mcntals of Darwin, Tyndal and Hux
ley. He has carefully followed the
investigations and conclusions of
Prof. William H. Hyslop, Prof. F. W.
H. Meyers, Dr. Richard Hodgson,
Maurice Maeterlinck and others, and
sifted out of it all whatever appears
to be truth fitted to his own thought.
For this reason he dislikes to be
quoted directly regarding these ideas
as if they were strictly his own.
The prevailing theory that cells
grow anew every seven years is not
accepted by Edison. He says he
knows “the cell is not so simple a
thing as that, and does not totally
pass away in seven years or neces
sarily in seventy.” There is, he be
lieves, a central substance in the cell
—a germ plasm that never dissi
pates or dies during the life of the
body; it remains the constant recep
tacle of the psychic, or mental, forc
es that actuate the brain and body.
These ultra-microscopic substances
constitute the real life-essence and,
cooperating, form the seat of the
phychic activities such as thought,
memory, reason, will, heredity—per
sonality. Here is the center of man’s
individuality as well as of his life
and it is physical—that is, material.
It is this substance that persists
from day to day and year to year
as personality, and is transmitted
from generation to generation as
heredity.
“These life-essence particles—are
they immortal?”
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