ing. The riddle will be read by some thinker outside, and
when the bread-and-butter purveyors of theology, science and the
schools have become indoctrinated, and prefer to pay their money
for the new instead of the old--then these self-constituted
teachers of humanity will all know that the cow was to eat the
grindstone--and teach the fact. We simply state a fact, known to
history, that the progress of the world is due to the inventor
and discoverer, and not to the schools. Every single thing, from
the advent of modern astronomy to the electric light, has been
from the ranks of the people by discovery or invention, and had
to fight its way against the teaching class, from time
immemorial. The circulation of the blood, which every
pig-sticker knew since knives were invented, had to be forced
upon medical science by a quack. And now, although the phenomena
we refer to have been before the teaching class since history
records anything, and although Mesmer taught it experimentally
eighty years ago, science has now only got so far as to admit
the existence of the phenomena.

"Why have not the professions given these things more attention,
and why have they in these modern days for three quarters of a
century practically denied their existence? That question is a
legitimate one. And at the risk of being charged with
unfriendliness, it must be said that it was either from an
inability to think or from a narrow creedism that will not
accept a truth from outside discovery. The effect of this, and
what constitutes a crime in the teaching class, is, that it has
for all these long years shut out this now accepted knowledge
from the masses of humanity who look to this teaching class as
authority,--and to use a business form of speech,--pay them for
finding and teaching the truth. And so the learning of the world
and the common mass of mind has, after nearly a century, to
begin where the ostracised Mesmer left off--a long, dark, weary
denial of the truth by the simple refusal to investigate. This
is a serious arraignment, but it is admitted to-day by the
scientific world to be but the simple truth.

"And what do we find now? Why, these same men who, for more than
eighty years, have been denying this truth, now whistle down the
wind as fanatics, dreamers and cranks, those who all the tim