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Show i t -.. , THOUGHT IS NOT REALLY RAPID comparative slowness of then -lit waves Is to assume that n man had nn arm T5 miles long and thai, when he wns n't lonklng a friend should rrn-p Ids hand. Before the owner of that arm liooatne conscious that h's hard had boon tnium-d. the friend wmihl have ri'h-aed it. and had time to walk four t . . i ) ( or eat a very ex-ensivo ex-ensivo dinner. Ki.oRas City S'nr. Mind Moves Comparatively Slowly, Notwithstanding Expression That Has Become Common. "As quick as thought" Is nn expression expres-sion much itsed to denote the acme of speed in action, but. like so ma'iv popular exprps'on, this one Is mis leadlnc. Thought, or at lea-M the men tal rectsterlnu of a sensation. Is not an exceedingly speedy process, the thought Impulse moving at tie coin pnnitlvely slow spi ed of 110 feet a second, or "") miles nn hour. Light travels nearly nl"e million times as swiftly. Thought would be hopeles-ly beaten In a race with n motorcar. Perhaps a good Illustration of tie |