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HE METAPHYSICAL MAGAZINE, as its name implies, is devoted to a scientific examination of the laws of being; to a study of the operations and phenomena of the human mind; and to a systematic inquiry into the faculties and functions, the nature and attributes, of the spiritual man. Its principal aim is to aid in the development of a better understanding of those higher phases of activity always involved in the life of a human being. In the forced attention to the plain sense requirements of material life, the finer and really most important of man's faculties, powers, and energies are apt to escape observation. For the recognition of these finer faculties and of their natural action in every-day life, both in social and scholastic channels, we earnestly plead, feeling sure that powers unrealized, and for the most part undreamed of, await such recognition of natural law. To this field of activity in life, and for the purpose of uniting both phases of existence in one on the basis of the principles of the higher, we are pledged in the work herein undertaken. It is our intention to treat all such matters from their higher (or metaphysical) side, with the view to bring out more clearly their full ethical value for the permanent benefit of humanity.

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MORE THAN MINERVA'S: A Studio Experience, Lucy Cleveland,

IT is a trite observation that in union is strength. This fact is illustrated in Æsop's well-known fable of the bundle of twigs, which probably is a reproduction of a much older expression of popular wisdom. The value of union is based on a physical fact which has a deeper significance than that of the simple fastening together of several bodies. These, like the twigs, may be placed side by side, but this position is not the best fitted to give the greatest strength under all conditions. The round column

gives a stronger support than a square column of the same diameter, because its particles are more concentrated; that is, they are arranged with reference to a common centre around which they are collected in a series of concentric circles. It is true that a hollow iron pillar is supposed to be at least as strong as a solid one; but in the former case the particles have reference in their arrangement to the centre, and it is on the circular form rather than on the mass of the pillar that its strength depends.

The real principle of strength, therefore, is concentration, the value of which is manifest when we consider its opposite, radiation. This may be illustrated by reference to a beam of light, which, as we know, is composed of a number of colored rays, each having its own special properties, but none having the complete series of properties possessed by the beam of white light formed by the concentrated rays. Newton showed that

the beam of light may be analyzed by prismatic radiation into its constituent rays, the synthesis of which is a process of concentration. The result is more than a simple addition of similar qualities. It is a composition of different qualities, each of which may be possessed in some degree only by one of the rays; thus the white light is endowed with the special qualities of all its component rays, and in the greatest strength, that is, the highest degree of perfection.

What is said here concerning the properties of the colored rays of light and their combination is applicable also to the special senses of the animal organism. It has been noticed that when the organism has been deprived of one of the special senses, the others exhibit an increased activity, as if to make up for the injury to the organism caused by the deprivation. As Dr. Miller very aptly puts it, "when one sense is lost the other senses seem to struggle forward with absolutely headlong haste to act as a kind of crutch to their disabled sister. The deaf child learns to hear with its eyes. The blind child learns to see with its fingers." The remaining senses cannot, however, make up perfectly the loss sustained; but as they all possess the fundamental property of sensibility, they are able to make a very fair semblance of what would have been under normal conditions just as white light is formed by the combination of only two or three of the color rays, although not with the perfection of property possessed by the white beam containing all the color rays.

Organic sensibility, in order to give the highest result, must have all its avenues of communication with the outside world in perfect condition, and the special senses must be thoroughly co-ordinated. In this case not only will the organism be endowed with the particular function of each of its special senses, but it will obtain the highest benefit from them, as in their union they develop a perfection of sensibility which otherwise could not be attained. This is true also of the organism in its relation to the special organic functions. On the other hand, if any one of these is out of order, that is, not in a normal condition, the whole organism suffers, and disease is the result. The