We take a piece of wrought iron which weighs one pound, and place it upon a block of steel which weighs three thousand pounds; it does not adhere in the least. We then place it in an electro-battery, under certain conditions, and on removing it, find that its weight has not been increased in the slightest. This proves that not a particle of matter has been added to it. Next we place it upon the same block of steel, and discover that it adheres with so much tenacity that it will raise the steel bodily, if sufficient power is applied. Here is a wonderful force which cannot be termed a material force, because it cannot be weighed. Some philosophers declare that it is not matter. Then what is that force? It is invisible and imponderable; whereas matter can be made both visible and ponderable. A million of materialists might swear that the force was material and ponderable, but their oaths would only be "authority" against a fact in nature; and authority is not proof. Again, we find that the electric forces that pervade the air are different from the electro-magnetic forces that pervade the earth; that run from the poles to the equator.

If the skin be touched repeatedly with light from a small hammer, the brain will distinguish the fact that the blows are separate, and not a continuous pressure, even when they follow one another as rapidly as one thousand in a second. Mental progression is slow because of the barriers placed in our path by hereditary conditions. When we cry aloud in our ignorance, at the injustice of fate in depriving our life of the glamour of falseness, then we should glance down the columns of time and study the advance of mental and moral progression. Hepler avowed himself in a mad ecstacy when he wrung from the planetary system a profound secret. The Syracusan philosopher was overjoyed by the solution of no very considerable problem. From the fog and sea Columbus wrested this western world and laid it - as a proud trophy - an ocean gem - at the foot of the throne of Castile and Leon. Self-suggestion, as all know, is capable of producing the most extraordinary effects on the nervous system - so extraordinary that mere "orating" is, in comparison, quite a trifle. "Men," says Professor Huxley, the noted scientist, "can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually by dint of intense thinking mental conditions, hardly distinguishable from monomania." On one occasion when Professor Huxley had lectured on the nervous system, a city lady came up to him and said: "I am so much obliged for your charming lecture; so very interesting and clear.

But there is one point I did not quite understand." "Thank you, madam, I shall be pleased if I can explain to you any point I may have insufficiently expressed." "Well, Professor Huxley, what I want to ask is about what you called the cerebellum. I did not quite gather whether it is inside the skull or outside." The brain is a complex and fragile structure, curiously and wonderfully made. The fine and delicate cells in. which the soul thinks its thoughts are liable to disease which no physician's skill can reach; but which hypnotism can reach. In the light of advancing knowledge and the new discoveries which hypnotic science is unfolding, the thinker is dumbfounded. Veiled in a mystery, impenetrable alike to the acutest intellect and the clearest intuition, is the origin of man. The causes of all phenomena, the sources of all life, intelligence and love, are to be sought in the internal - the spiritual realm; not in the external or material. A man is considerably out of date who says he does not believe a thing, simply because he cannot do that thing or does not understand how the thing is done. There are three classes of people - the "wills," the "won'ts," and the "can'ts;" the first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything,, and the third fail in everything.

The work of investigation of hypnotism, animal magnetism, somnambulism and telepathy has at least and at last begun in America.