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Identify Your “Why”
Catagory:Reading
Author:Dean Graziosi(Millionaire Success Habits)
Posted Date:04/15/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Let’s move on to the next key component; the piece that makes your vision become your reality. This is the step you must complete to make it real: Understand your “ why”! Here are critical “why” questions you should answer:  Why do you want to take your income from where it is to a “next level”?  Why do you want to start your own business?  Why do you want your company to evolve, or to quit your job, or to rise up through the ranks at your current job?  Why do you want your parents or your spouse to retire?  Why do you want to lose weight, have more intimacy in your life, have more passion in your actions, have more joy on a daily basis, and live a life with more smiles than frowns? I bet when you think of having all of these things you say to yourself “Hell, yeah!” But why do you really want them? I know for a fact that the reasons you want them are deeper than you think, and I’m going to show you how to dig those reasons out. And when you do, be prepared to be unstoppable. Maybe you’ll shed a few tears as well; I know I did. The issue with most people is that they simply don’t go deep enough into their hearts and souls to find out the truth about why they want what they want. It’s unfortunate that our brains can so powerfully obscure what’s in our hearts and souls. When you ask people what their “why” is--and I have asked thousands of my students--most people will say, “I want more money to have financial freedom” or they will say “I want more money to eliminate debt” or even things like “I want to lose weight so I look good”. And yes, these are all good answers, but they’re not sufficiently deep ones. Without a depth of purpose, you can’t push through your most challenging times. If the struggles of life are pouring down on you like a rainstorm, is “I want a new house” a strong enough motivation that you’ll ignore the storm to get what you want? Is “I want abs” a strong enough “why” to get you to the gym after a long day at work? I doubt it! But when you can attach a much deeper meaning to “why”, it all changes. Let me stress how important this is. Throughout this book I promise to deliver success habits that will wow you and have you eager to put them into play in your life. But if you don’t have these fundamental habits to start, then nothing else I share with you will matter.So get ready to be honest with yourself on even a deeper level than before, because together we are going to dig out your true purpose. The question we usually don’t ask ourselves is “What is the purpose behind our actions?” Which is crazy, because it’s a question we should be asking ourselves daily. When we can uncover our true “why”, our driving purpose in life, and translate that into our actions, we provide the momentum we need to push forward, faster than ever.


Type:Technology
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Galileo Galilei
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:04/15/2025
Posted By:utopia online

An astronomer, mathematician, inventor, and author, Galileo Galilei was a rebel genius in the 1600s who was sentenced as a heretic by the Catholic Church. He’s been called the father of modern astronomy, the father of modern physics, even the father of all modern science, but Galileo Galilei (who is known by his first name only) was a rebel. He did not set out to turn the science world and the Roman Catholic Church on their collective ears, but that’s what happened. The son of a musician in Italy, Galileo was a naturally curious man with a great gift for mathematics and invention. When someone told him that a scientist in Holland thought it might be possible to use a tube with glass lenses to see far away, Galileo sat down and built the first modern telescope. Sea captains and others loved his invention, but it was when Galileo turned one of his telescopes towards the sky that he began to get into trouble. In the Europe of the early 1600s, the Catholic Church was the ultimate power. People who questioned its version of the world risked being labeled “heretics,” and arrested, tortured, even killed. The Church insisted that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the planets were perfect spheres, and anyone who tried to contradict these ideas was in great danger. The problem was that Galileo’s telescope had shown him that the Church’s teachings on this matters was wrong. Galileo proved that the Earth orbited around the Sun, not the other way around. He foundmoons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, when the Church said everything was supposed to revolve around the Earth. And Galileo even measured the mountains and valleys on the Moon, showing that it was not the perfect sphere the Church claimed it to be. Galileo not only made these discoveries, he also published them in widely popular books that often made fun of the ignorance of his critics. Even though he tried to tiptoe around the Church’s positions, everything Galileo did proved them wrong. It was only a matter of time before Galileo was put on trial and sentenced as a heretic. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest, and all of his books were banned. A true scientist to the end, Galileo kept experimenting and writing in secret, even as an old man. It was only long after his death, when there was so much proof that his findings could no longer be ignored, that Galileo’s work was fully recognized. In 1992, the Catholic Church apologized and admitted he had been right.


Type:Technology
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The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Part 7
Catagory:Fiction
Author:Thousand Nights and One Night ( POWYS MATHERS)
Posted Date:04/15/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Part 7 The grace of Allah be upon you, good master!’ answered the venerable Husain. ‘Your hospitality is a great hospitality but I cannot accept it, for I made a vow before heaven many years ago never to eat meat flavoured with salt or to taste that substance in any form.’ ‘Surely that is no difficulty,’ cried Ali Baba. ‘I have but to give orders in the kitchen and our repast will be cooked without salt or any savour of the kind.’ Thus he wrung an acceptance from his son’s friend, and hurried into the house to tell Marjanah that all salt must be left out of that evening’s meal. This condition greatly surprised the slave, but she handed on the command to the black woman who did the cooking. When night came and the guest sat with Ali Baba and his son before the well-piled cloth, Marjanah and Abdallah waited upon them, and the former, with the natural curiosity of a woman, took every chance she could get of examining the old man who did not like salt. Yet, when the meal was over, she went forth and left the three men to talk together at their ease. At the end of an hour this delightful girl entered the hall again and Ali Baba was astounded to see that she was dressed as a dancer, her brow starred with gold sequins, her neck hung with beads of yellow amber, her waist pressed in a supple belt of gold, and having sounding gold upon her wrists and ankles. From her belt hung a jade-hilted dagger, as is the custom with dancers, so that the long blade may swing out and mimic the figures of the dance. Her dark, deep, glittering eyes had been heavily lengthened with black kohl, and her brows met in a threatening passionate bow. Behind her walked young Abdallah, holding a tambourine with metal castanets, upon which he beat a gentle rhythm to the paces of the girl. When she arrived before her master, Marjanah bowed gracefully and then, signing to Abdallah that he should a little quicken and louden his measure, began dancing like a happy bird. She danced tirelessly and with all perfection, as the shepherd David danced before the black sadness of Saul. She danced the kerchief dance and the dance of veils, she danced after the manner of the Jews and of the Greeks, Ethiopian and Persian figures she danced, and the figures of the desert, as light and beautiful as Bilkis who loved Sulaiman. When the hearts of the three men waited upon her feet and their eyes were fixed in dream upon her body, she danced the swaying dagger dance. Drawing the gilded blade from its silver sheath, she swayed and leapt with blazing eyes, on wings that might not be seen. She balanced like an angry snake, darting her point in every quarter of the air and then turning it against her own sweet breasts. The three men uttered frightened cries when they saw the white roses of her bosom menaced by the dagger’s silver; but in a moment Marjanah turned the blade again, and reeled about and about, stabbing her imagined foes ever more quickly. Suddenly she sank to her knee and signed to Abdallah to throw her the tambourine; she caught it in her hand and, again after the fashion of dancers, presented it to her master for a wage. Ali Baba was a little offended that she should carry the imitation so far, but he could not resist her appeal, and therefore dropped a gold dinar upon the sounding parchment. His son did the same, and the venerable Husain was feeling in his purse for money when lo! the dancer cast herself upon him and stabbed him to the heart. He opened his mouth and shut it again, gave a half sigh, and fell dead among the carpets.Ali Baba and his son thought that their slave had gone mad; they threw themselves upon her to restrain her, as she stood there wiping the blood from the dagger on a silken shawl. But she spoke to them calmly, saying: ‘O my masters, let us give thanks to Allah that He has strengthened the hand of a weak woman to save this house. This offal is no more a venerable Husain than it is an oil merchant.’ So saying, she snatched the long coarse beard from the face of the corpse and showed the astonished Ali Baba the features of the robber chief. When Ali Baba recognised the oil-seller and the captain of the thieves in that one body, and realised that Marjanah had saved the house a second time, he kissed her between the eyes and took her to his breast crying: ‘Marjanah, my child, my daughter, will you be my daughter in very truth, will you marry this handsome young man, my son?’ ‘Be it upon my head and before my eyes!’ answered Marjanah, as she kissed her master’s hand. Marjanah was wedded to Ali Baba's son on that same day; there was feasting and rejoicing in the house. Late that night the woodcutter buried the robber chief in the ditch which had served for his band. May Allah have him never in compassion! At this point Shahrazad saw the approach of morning and discreetly fell silent. But when the eight-hundred-and-sixtieth night had come SHE SAID:After his son’s marriage, Ali Baba kept away for a long time from the secret cave, for Marjanah feared that he might meet the two thieves whom she supposed to be alive. But we know, O auspicious King, that they had been beheaded for failing to mark down Ali Baba’s house. At the end of a year, however, the woodcutter set out, with his son and Marjanah, to inspect the place. The girl, who had quick eyes for anything upon the way, noticed that shrubs and tall grasses had overgrown the little path which led up to the rock and that there were no traces before the rock of man or beast. Therefore she concluded that the place had been abandoned, and said to Ali Baba: ‘We may enter safely,O my uncle.’ Ali Baba stetched out his hand towards the invisible door of rock, crying: ‘Open, Sesame!’ and again the door gaped, as if by the impulsion of an unseen hand. Ali Baba soon saw that the treasure was untouched since his last visit, and it was with some pride that he pointed out this vast inheritance to the two young people. After a delighted examination of all the marvels, they filled three large sacks with gold and precious stones, and departed for the city. All the people of that house lived together in happy peace thenceforward, prudently spending the fortune which the Great Giver had sent to them.Thus it was that Ali Baba, from being the owner of three asses only, became the richest and most honoured man of his town. Glory be to Him Who gives to the humble without counting! And that, O auspicious King, is all that I know of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. But Allah knows all! ‘Indeed, Shahrazad, the tale is both excellent and astonishing!’ cried King Shahryar. ‘There are no girls like Marjanah in these days. I ought to know, who have had to cut off so many women’s heads.’Seeing that the King began to frown at his memories, Shahrazad hastened to begin …cont


Type:Technology
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Change yourself first
Catagory:Reading
Author:Chandler, Steve.
Posted Date:04/14/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Don't change other people. It doesn't work. You'll waste your life trying. Many of us spend all our time trying to change the people in our lives. We think we can change them in ways that will make them better equipped to make us happy. This is especially true of our children. We talk to our children for hours about how we think they should change.But children don't learn from what we say. They learn from what we do.Today's children, upon hearing us talk to them about how they should change will often say, "Yeah, right." I think they got this phrase from Bart Simpson. It's shorthand for "I'm not listening to what you say, I'm listening to what you do."Gandhi was especially tuned in to the futility of changing other people. Yet Gandhi was probably responsible for more change in people than any other person in our era was. How did he do it? He had a profoundly simple formula. People would often come to Gandhi to ask how they could change others. Someone would say, "I agree with you about nonviolence, but there are others who don't. How do I change them?" And Gandhi told them they couldn't. He said you couldn't change other people. "You must be the change you wish to see in others," said Gandhi. In my own seminars, I probably use that one quotation more than any other. I am always asked, "How can I change my husband?" Or, "How can I change my wife?" Or, "How can I change my teenager?" People who take the seminars on self-motivation, at some point during the workshop, agree completely with the principles and ideas. Then, they start to think about the people who don't buy in. In the questionand-answer period, their questions are about those poor people. How do we change them? I always quote Gandhi. Be the change you wish to see in others. By being what you want them to be, you lead by inspiration. Nobody really wants to be taught by lectures and advice. They want to be led through inspiration. Sales managers often ask me how they can get a certain salesperson to do more self-motivated activities. I tell them that they have to be the salesperson they want to see. Take them on a call, I say, and let them watch you. Don't tell them how to do it, inspire them to do it.I once attended a concert given by my daughter's fourth-grade chorus, which sang a song called "Let There Be Peace on Earth." The song's words went, "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me...." I beamed when I heard it. It was such a beautiful expression of being the change a celebration of self-responsibility that rarely is portrayed in young people's lives today. What you tell people to do often goes right by them. Who you are does not. *** “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” Elbert Hubbard writer


Type:Technology
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An Ancient Computer?
Catagory: History
Author:Brian HaughLon (HIDDEN HISTORY)
Posted Date:04/14/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The Antikytheran Mechanism is on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Detail showing central gearhouse. On Easter of 1900, Elias Stadiatos and a party of Greek sponge fishermen were fishing off the coast of the tiny, rocky island of Antikythera, between the southern Greek mainland and Crete. Surfacing after one of his descents, Stadiatos began babbling about a "heap of dead naked women" on the sea bed.Further investigation by the fishermen revealed the 164 foot long wreck of a sunken Roman cargo ship, about 140 feet down. The buried objects from the ship included first century B.C. marble and bronze statues (the dead, naked women), coins, gold jewelry, pottery, and what appeared to be lumps of corroded bronze, which broke into pieces shortly after being brought to the surface. The finds from the wreck were subsequently examined, recorded, and sent off to the National Museum in Athens for display or storage. On May 17, 1902, Greek archaeologist Spyridon Stais was looking through the odd lumps from the shipwreck, covered in marine growth from 2,000 years beneath the sea, when he noticed that one piece had a gear wheel embedded in it and what looked like an inscription in Greek. There had been a wooden case associated with the object but this, as well as the wooden planks from the ship itself, had subsequently dried out and crumbled. Further examination and meticulous cleaning of the corroded broonze lumps revealed additional pieces belonging to the mysterious object, and soon an elaborate geared mechanism made of bronze, and measuring about 33 by 17 by 9 centimeters, was revealed. Stais believed the mechanism to be an ancient astronomical clock, but the prevailing opinion at the time was that the strange object was too intricate to belong to a wreck dated by the pottery on board to the early first century B.C. Many researchers thought that the mechanism was the remains of a medieval astrolabe, an astronomical device for observing planetary movements, and used for navigation. (The earliest known example of which is from the ninth century A.D. in Iraq.) But no general agreement on the date or purpose of the artifact was reached, and the enigma was soon forgotten. In 1951, Derek De Solla Price, an English physicist, and at the time professor of the history of science at Yale University, became fascinated by the complexity of the shipwreck mechanism, and began what was to be eight years of detailed study using x-ray photography. In June 1959, the conclusions of his analyses were published as an article in Scientific American entitled "An Ancient Greek Computer." X rays of the mechanism revealed at least 20 separate gears, including a differential gear, previously thought to have been invented in the 16th century. The differential gear allowed the rotation of two shafts at different speeds, as used on the rear axle of automobiles. The Antikythera mechanism, a calendar computer from ca. 80 B.C. Price's further study showed that the ancientscientific instrument actually contained at least 30 gears, although most of them were incomplete.The astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes (c. 190 B.c.-120 B.C.) is credited with the invention of trigonometry and was the first to scientifically catalogue the positions of the stars.


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Alfred Nobel
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:04/10/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Can you imagine reading your own obituary in the newspaper? What would people say about you? Alfred Nobel got the chance to read his own death notice, and he didn’t like what he saw. lfred Nobel was a very wealthy and successful man. He had become an expert in chemistry and invented three of the most commonly used explosives in the world - dynamite, gelignite (used in mining) and ballistite, which is still used as a rocket propellant today. With the huge fortune he made from these inventions, Nobel bought an engineering company called Bofors and turned it into an arms manufacturer. He made another enormous fortune designing cannons and guns and selling them around the world. Then, in 1888, Alfred’s brother died while visiting France. A French newspaper thought it was Alfred who had died and they published an obituary that began like this: Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday…. Alfred Nobel was shocked. Was this what people thought of him? Was this the legacy he would leave to the world? That’s when he decided to use his vast wealth to make a positive difference. Nobel set up a foundation with $250 million dollars in funding. Every year the foundation would consult the leading experts in the world and hand out prizes to people who had made great contributions to humanity. There would be prizes for sciences, for literature, and for promoting peace. Today the Nobel Prizes are probably the bestknown and most prestigious awards in the world. They have been awarded to great scientists, authors and activists and helped draw attention to many outstanding works and worthy causes. Nobel set up his foundation in 1895: just in time to influence his own obituary. He died only a year later. The Nobel Prizes accomplished his wish; they created a very different legacy for him than a reputation as “The Merchant of Death.” He is not remembered as an explosives inventor or arms dealer, but as one of the greatest philanthropists of all time. He is also a great example of how it is never too late to change your life and help make the world a better place.


Type:Technology
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The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Part 6
Catagory:Fiction
Author:Thousand Nights and One Night ( POWYS MATHERS)
Posted Date:04/12/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The robber captain did what he had to do, and then went to each of the jars in turn, whispering into their mouths: ‘When I throw a pebble against your jar from my bedroom window, come out speedily and run to me, for there will be killing.’ Then he returned to the house, where Marjanah lighted him to his bedroom with an oil lamp and wished him good night. As he felt that he would need his full strength for the great vengeance which he had in mind, he lay down and was soon snoring like a washerwoman’s copper.While Marjanah was washing the dishes in the kitchen, her lamp went out for lack of oil. As she had forgotten to lay in a fresh provision that day, she called her fellow slave Abdallah and explained the difficulty to him. But Abdallah broke into a laugh, saying: ‘In Allah’s name, my sister, how can you say that we are out of oil, when there are thirty-eight jars full of it in the courtyard? And good oil, too, if I can judge from the drippings! I do not seem to recognise the resourceful Marjanah to-night…. I must go back to sleep, my sister. I have to be up early in the morning to accompany our master to the hammam.’ He returned to his chamber, which was near that of the oil merchant, and was soon snoring like a marsh buffalo. Marjanah, who had been a little put out by Abdallah’s jesting, went to one of the jars in the courtyard, removed the palm fibre from it, and plunged the measure through the gaping mouth. But—O wide eyes, dry throat, and working bowels!—instead of reaching oil, the measure bumped against something hard, and a voice came forth from the interior of the jar, saying: ‘Pebble did he say? I should call it a rock. But, be that as it may, now is the time!’ And a bearded head appeared above the rim of the jar.Any but Marjanah would have shrieked aloud; even she allowed herself to think: ‘Now I am dead!’ In a moment, however, she collected all her faculties, and said coolly: ‘Not yet, not yet, my man. Your master is still asleep. Wait till he wakes.’ She had already divined the whole plot; therefore she visited each of the jars in turn, to count the number of her foes, and bade each head, as it appeared, have patience.When she had counted thirty-seven thieves and one full jar of oil, she returned to the kitchen, lighted the lamp, and set about the execution of a project which she hoped might save the house. She lit a great fire under the cauldron which was used for washing clothes and then, going backwards and forwards with the measure, filled the cauldron with oil from the thirty-eighth jar. As soon as it boiled, she brimmed a large stable bucket with the death-dealing stuff and, going softly up to the first jar, snatched away the palm fibre from its top. Relentlessly she poured the boiling oil through the mouth on to the thief’s head, so that he swallowed death with the cry which rose to his lips.With sure hand and unhurried pace Marjanah burned and stifled the rest of the thieves to death; for no man, though he be hidden in a sevenfold jar, can avoid the Destiny which hangs about his neck. When she had completed her work of destruction, she put out the fire,stoppered the jars, and returned to the kitchen to wait in the dark for what should come.At midnight the robber chief woke and put his head out of the window. Seeing no light and hearing no noise, he supposed that all the house was plunged in sleep. Therefore he took a handful of pebbles which he had brought up with him and began to throw them dexterously at the jars. He could hear by the noise they made that they had reached their marks; but there was no answer, no rushing of armed men, no sign, no sound at all. ‘The dogs have gone to sleep,’ he muttered, as he ran down to the courtyard; but there the smell of burning oil and roasting flesh took him by the throat, and his heart misgave him. He set his hand to one of the jars and found it surface as hot as an oven; he ventured to kindle a handful of straw and, examining each jar by its light, found every man of his crouched down smoking and lifeless. Realising that he had terribly lost his band, he reached the top of the courtyard wall with one prodigious bound, leapt down into the road, and took to his heels. He fled among the shadows of night till he reached his cave, where he sat to brood sullenly upon the next step he should take. For the moment, so much for him.At this point Shahrazad saw the approach of morning and discreetly fell silent. But when the eight-hundred-and-fifty-ninth night had come SHE SAID: Marjanah, knowing that the house was safe, waited calmly till the morning, and only woke her master at the time appointed. Ali Baba dressed himself and came down to the courtyard; not till then did Marjanah hint to him of her adventure. She led him up to the first jar, saying: ‘Good master, I pray you lift the cover and look inside.’ Ali Baba did so and recoiled in horror; but when he had heard Marjanah’s story, he wept joyful tears and cried: ‘Blessed be the womb which bore you, O daughter of benediction! Surely the bread which you have eaten is a little thing compared with this. Henceforward you shall be our eldest child and the head of our house.’With Abdallah’s help, Ali Baba buried the thirty-seven bodies in a great pit in his garden, and was rid of them for ever. Then all the household returned to their quiet life and continued to make much of the astute Marjanah. One day, Ali Baba’s eldest son, who now looked after the shop which had been Kasim’s, said to his father: ‘I do not know how I can make a return to my neighbour Husain for all the favours which he has shown me since he took a shop in our market. Five times I have shared a midday meal with him, without returning his hospitality. I think you will agree that we ought to give some fine feast in his honour.’ ‘That isbut fitting, my son,’ answered Ali Baba. ‘You should have spoken of the matter earlier. To-morrow is Friday, the day of rest, and we cannot do better than ask the excellent Husain to take bread and salt with us in the evening. If he is inclined to make excuses of politeness, press him strongly, my son, for I am sure that we can entertain him in a fashion not unworthy of his generosity.’So next morning Ali Baba’s son invited Husain, the new merchant, to walk with him, and took him towards his father’s house, where Ali Baba waited smiling on the threshold. The young man led his longbearded friend up to his father, who thanked him with great civility for his many kindnesses, and pressed him to feed with them that evening. …cont The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty


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Organized Knowledge
Catagory:Reading
Author:NAPOLEON HILL
Posted Date:04/12/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Here I am laying the foundation for one of the most important hypotheses enumerated in Lesson Three. This is a lesson on organized knowledge. Most of the useful knowledge to which the human race has become heir has been preserved and accurately recorded in Nature's bible. By turning back the pages of this unalterable bible, we have read the story of the terrific struggle through and out of which the present civilization has grown. The pages of this bible are made up of the physical elements of which this earth and the other planets consist, and of the ether that fills all space. By turning back the pages written on stone and covered near the surface of this earth on which we live, we have uncovered the bones, skeletons, footprints, and other unmistakable evidence of the history of animal life on this earth, planted there for our enlightenment and guidance by the hand of Mother Nature throughout unbelievable periods of time. The evidence is plain and unmistakable. The great stone pages of Nature's bible found on this earth, and the endless pages of that bible represented by the ether wherein all past human thought has been recorded, constitute an authentic source of communication between the Creator and his creation. This bible was begun before humankind had reached the thinking stage; indeed before life had reached the ameba (one-cell animal) stage of development.This bible is above and beyond our power to alter. Moreover, it tells its story not in the ancient dead languages or hieroglyphics but in universal language which all who have eyes may read. Nature's bible, from which we have derived all the knowledge that is worth knowing, is one that no one may alter or in any manner tamper with. The most marvelous discovery yet made is that of the recently discovered radio principle. Imagine picking up the ordinary vibration of sound and transforming that vibration from audio frequency into radio frequency, sending it to a properly attuned receiving station and there transforming it back into its original form of audio frequency, all in the flash of a second. It should surprise no one that such a force could gather up the vibration of thought and keep that vibration in motion forever.The instantaneous transmission of sound, by means of the modern radio apparatus, makes not only possible but also probable my theorythat thought vibration can connect mind to mind.


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