22 feet.

"The wave length is commonly designated by {~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}. If _V_ is the velocity, and
_t_ the time of one vibration, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~} = _Vt_."

[ A graph, showing five wavy lines, labeled "a", "ou", "r", "E", and "a".
"Vibration records produced by the voice: 'a' as in 'ate'; 'ou' as in
'about'; 'r' in 'relay'; 'e' in 'be'; and 'a' in 'father'. The tuning fork
record, frequency 50 per second, gives the vibration frequencies." ]

"Vibration records produced by the voice: 'a' as in 'ate'; 'ou' as in
'about'; 'r' in 'relay'; 'e' in 'be'; and 'a' in 'father'. The tuning fork
record, frequency 50 per second, gives the vibration frequencies."

This last drawing may help to visualize the fact in what manner wrong
expressions and untrue teachings hamper the true progress of humanity.
Every word has its energy and produces some physico-chemical effects in
the time-binding apparatus in accord with the idea which we associate with
the sound of the word. If we teach ideas which are untrue, then the
physico-chemical effects produced are not proper--in other words the human
mind does NOT WORK PROPERLY, that is, it does not work _naturally_ or
_normally_ or true to the human dimension. There is every reason why the
standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a
literal sense of the word, our minds with the physico-chemical effects of
wrong ideas. This correct NATURAL APPROACH to the "Time-binding" energies
will make it obvious how unmeasured is the importance of the manner in
which we handle this subtle mechanism, as the poisoning with wrong ideas
or with careless or incorrect words does not in any way differ in
consequences from poisoning with any other stupor-producing or wrongly
stimulating poison.

Monographs on Experimental Biology and Physiology

LOEB, J.: "Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative
Psychology." New York, 1900.

LOEB, J.: "Studies in General Physiology." Chicago, 1905.

LOEB, J.: "The Dynamics of Living Matter." New York, 1906.

LOEB, J.: "The Mechanistic Conception of Life." Chicago, 1912.

Selection from contents: I. The Mechanistic Conception of Life. II. The
Significance of Tropisms for Psychology. III. Some Fundamental Facts and
Conceptions concerning the Comparative Physiology of the Central Nervous
System. IV. Pattern Adaptation of Fishes and the Mechanism of Vision. V.
On Some Facts and Principles of Physiological Morph