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Show JjOUGHT WE BELIEVE IN PROPHECIES --By Doctor Maxwell Associate Editor of Le Matin" n vin A ' thi: ri. i,r p,,,.,., r MS A tU' ;,IM'--iraP. e of :i -frane fa WJJ ' !"i ''-al of the almanacs .fee Tne prophets were among cjltlte nr.. cMonipn. of Gutenberg. jUrin'p. " projno.st i. ations" have ap board i i ('.i rmnn;. ; ,,i Tlal.v , in Frin. -p '-ii..-. tl-,.. beginning of the fOfJj li.l.e.-tit h icntiii;. i uurtig event- rrPre ' j forr,nld i.v en -nt astrologists, among -I'f "bom .Tean - Montercggio was tho 1 1" iOsl lamous. Uookhr, pfs will rouiPin-retUTB rouiPin-retUTB ber the sensation caused in the six-f6.Wl six-f6.Wl Fent" ''eiuinw I- the aiinouncpment V the coming end of the world. The :l Crr diction aroused much .strife among I the prophets. S J 1 -'usi-i nti i- i.-rhap.s u.-.Me.-s. for we . E8 u n '.t .juute a .-me,, important pie j fiction which has hr-en fnlfjlled. There WPa'v',' n"r'i "lauv curious coi ih idences rfj f'vrr N'ostra.J.ninu.s and the revo f, bit ion ... 17vi. William l.illv and the trc"1 London tire !n loiiii. The mean-SSI mean-SSI ng r,f uu. prophecies has, however, never been found out until after their m. li'-ation, a fact which would be dis AEDn? Wu racing ,f, ,11HI1 r!ir)usity. were it &f( lot iiipxhaiiriilde. It resembles Stfy-jb Stfy-jb n h rhp m-i.ii. v. ho is am or die. a Pj5 P-'d though Ins vock always rolls; 1,0 S"k again. I'm- ibouuauds of years ophr..v and divination have occupied he human rnind. ClT One Urr)n ,i,c rfilKf,n wbv this KonC W' Tbe 8,,If1v of individual and w-jsaoA, w-jsaoA, ',al f'chologv revcalr. the action of entiW aws. which, though apparently very "ariyj fnhcateri, are reatlv exceedingly ,lfl limpb, ami which guide social evolu-ipsliSl evolu-ipsliSl ion' 'J'"'o facts reveal them; obser-ruy.-J fatioti and interpretation. Their svn- lUyJ lR fr"15 tho basi' of 'pnc6 ;lM ,-woru sreli a, , kp,t,i t m. who-h are. dit BliBjaWxent ouly in regard to simple varia tions in tbe quulity and quantity of tbe interpreting factors. rhere are two kinds of future events. Ope i-ind is apparently iuite indetcr minable 1 say apparently, for, coming vents are always dependent on those that, precc-ie (hem. and it is onh necessary nec-essary to know all their antecedents to be able to predict them with cer- j-aintv. Human intellect is. however, unanie to discover all active causes and consequently the future is an un-knowu un-knowu lo us as are its causes. It ih toe ignorance of these which prevents . "- ggg hioking into the, future There are case?, however, when the can es of a coming event exist and ar.- discovered. A sufficiently wide awake intelligence ir- then abb- to predict pre-dict them. Tho defeat of France m 1870 was foreseen bv oun of our military mili-tary attaches. The defeats of Russia in Manchuria were predicted by several sev-eral statesmen familiar with conditions in Japan. The future, iu these cases, wan deduced from tho present. The study of divination justifies this knowledge of contemporaueuiiH facts manifested by tho persons far distaut from the place where they happened Casca oi this kind are nowadays classified clas-sified under telepathy." They prob ahh const il ule a special class among an order of general facts connected with intuition, To this class belong presentments and premonitions, which play iuiie ,m important pari in the liTes of manj men. The demon of Socrates, who told the philosopher what he should not do, is a manifestation of these faculties of intuition which we al posses, to a more or les. marked extent. Phenomena of this kind if admitted as evidence, and it seems a" if the growing accumulation of observations makes such admission probable, permit us to form a rational conception of divination. In nearly all known oases of prophecies the predicted event iras a result of causes already realized and which might be known. Tt is to int.u-tive int.u-tive perception that divination or pie diet ion is due. The published eases aie numerous. Here is one found in the story of Do-guay-Trouin, the famous narigator, i ho. with ship which be commanded, cruised for a lOUg time in latitudes where be took no prizes. His provis. ions began to cjive oul and the eret wanted to return to port. DugUBJ- Trouin could not decide himself, to oo so. bui undoubtedly hi? staff and the crow wptp ri'lit. and tbe admiral had to promise to Bet his course towards Franco, l'urinc: the nicrbt he bad a dream, in whi.-h be saw himself at tacking ani capturing two boats. Tbe dream made such an impression ou him that he begged bis men to "0 on for another day, as be was sure be bail a prophetic ision. and, indeed, the same day the outlook reported two sailing vessels in siirht and Dugnay-Trooin's Dugnay-Trooin's dream was fulfilled. In this curious case Du guay-Trou i fl would have made a prediction if be bad told bis sailors of the ceming of R"' these (wo future pri.es, and still the Es" f-.'ls were on their way and tl-eii RfX course must cross that of their captors, &J ' The French r i lor would have been aide wCjJ to Bee them if his Mrrbt had heH pow Iw? erfni enough. The event which be. saw 13 -V Jin hi-; dream was dcYermined bj the course of tho vessels; it was inevita 6 Duguay-Trouin a adventure reminds l?y of that of Christopher Columbus, hut this latter arrive at the diseoverv of Kp America h other wat s, which are more fi& Inteiligible to us. The two eases, how- e or. brine forth the identical psyeh E' ologiea problem. BfV |