"We may indulge in some conjecture based on
what we know of the wireless waves, which, as I have
said, are all we can recognize of a vast cell of
vibrations which theoretically must exist. If the
thought subway are similar to the wireless waves, they
must pass from the section and flow endlessly around
the land and the universe. The corpus and the skull
and other solid prevention would model no deferment to
their passage, as they pass through the ether which
surrounds the molecules of every substance, no matter
how solid and dense.
"You ask if there would not be constant
interference and confusion if other people's thoughts
were innovations through our brains and landscapes up
thoughts in them that did not originate with ourselves?
"How do you know that other men's purposes are
not interfering with yours now? I have noticed a good
many phenomena of mind sickness that I have
never been able to explain. For instance, there is the
inspiration or the discouragement that a amplifier feels
in addressing an audience. I have experienced this
many times in my life and have never been able to
define exactly the physical causes of it.
"Many recent scientific discoveries, in my
opinion, affair to a day not far distant perhaps, when
men will read one another's thoughts, when thoughts
will be conveyed directly from brain to section without
intervention of speech, orbit or any of the present
known furniture of interaction
