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to her developed sixth
sense by way of her hair
and delicate instruments
strapped to her ears the
scientific Prophetess of
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0 lesi a scientist tban Sir Hiram
Muhn, the greatest gun Inventor Id
the world and a pioneer of aviation,
declares that man must develop a
sixth sense In order to grapple with the com
plexities of modern civilization.
The sixth sense is needed to enable the
aviator to perceive the air current that con
stantly threaten his safety and life, to enable
the submarine navigator to perceive the un
seen obstacles and dangers that threaten him,
to enable the automobllist to perceive the
presence of unseen cars that, are coming
round the corners, and to enable man to dis
play new forms of sensibility In a thousand
ways made nece&Bary "by modern civilization.
We can easily conceive the existence of
senses different from those now possessed by
iman from, the example of animals and exist
ing scientific Instruments. Sir Hiram Maxim,
t in fact, was led to speculate upon the possi
bility of a sixth human sense by a scientific
Instrument which he had jiiftt Invented.
This Instrument is intended to enable a
ehlp to detect the approach of an iceberg.
Vibrations quite Imperceptible to human
senses are sent forth by this instrument.
When they strike an iceberg they are echoed
back to the ship, and strike a kind of dia
phragm, which repeats' them in a form audi
ble to the human ear, although otherwise they
would be inaudible.
Now, if this Instrument can perceive vibra
tion imperceptible to man, wliy cannot tfte
human ear be trained to perceive them?
It can be provod that many animals are
possessed of sense perceptions bo far beyond
those of man that tbey almost amount to ad
ditional senses.
Dogs can recognize a scant which is abso
lutely imperceptible to man. There is a kind
of blind bat Which is the most expert fly
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catcher on earth. Evidently it la able to tell
the approach of flies by gome sense which la
not possessed by man.
The cat animals use the hairs on their sosea
to detect the approach of enemies or the
vicinity of obstacles in the dark. It may be
argued that this is a development of the
sense of touch, but if so it is a development
entirely unknown to man.
This fact about the cats jias led Sir Hiram
Maxim to the idea that the newest sense of
man-may be located In the hair. Apparently
our hair has certain sense possibilities hith
erto neglected. We have heard that the hair
will stand on end from terror, and it is also
said that it will droop from fatigue.
If the new sense Is to be located In the
hair, then it seems probable that women will
possess it more generally than men. Men
are too frequently bald or losing their hair.
It is scarcely to be expected that a new eenee
will show Itself in a part of the body that is
falling into decay.
The development of this sense In woman
would be in line with an observed tendency '
of modern evolution. As brute force becomes
less and less a factor and delicacy of sense
perception a greater factor in human affaire,
then the role of woman must grow relatively
more important
We can Imagine an exquisitely sensitive
woman, with abundant 'highly vitalized lhair,
occupying the directing seat in one of the
newest scientific devices, which requires for
its guidance keener, faculties than anaa has
hitherto possessed. The services of a woman
are. even now essential to the operation of a'
telephone exchange, and they will be even
more necessary with complicated machines of
the future, requiring the perception of vibra
tions beyond present human senees.
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