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Show TAKES IS8UE WITH UPTON SINCLAIR. On Tuesday, the Standard presented the study by Upton Sinclair of the subconscious mind, which has brought forth this comment: "Editor Standard In your editorial of Tuesday evening on "What the Subconscious Sub-conscious Mind Can Do," you quote Upton Sinclair as saying. 'If a aur geon cuts out some diseased flesh and leaves interstices, they will be filled up with new tissue, and there will be nerves in that tissue.' which is not true and Upton Sinclair ought to know better than to gull the people peo-ple with such stuff. "It is true that Interstitial places (gaps) that are made by the surgeon's sur-geon's knife, or otherwise, will grow again, but a self-creating organ never, and a nerve is an organized entity The gap, or wound, grows, or heals, as the ca3e may be, by a proliferation, prolifera-tion, or cell-genesis of its own kind, but cannot create anything distinct from itself, but it must be Bui generis, like Itself. This explanation is not a 'proliferation' of my brain but the voice of science sounding in the ears of the listening world, including those of Upton Sinclair. (Signed), A S CONDON, M. D." We are not prepared to either affirm af-firm Upton Sinclair's statement or dispute with the doctor, and yet, as a whole, Mr. Sinclair's article im pressed us as a most Important con tribution to the subject of mind cure and the part played by the subconscious subcon-scious mind In the directing of the nerve forces of the body. Mr. Slnalairs Illustration of the point he sought to make, as to the wonderful influence of the subconscious subcon-scious mind over the organs of our body, may have been amiss, but that fault simply robs his 6tory of some of its impressive embellishment, embellish-ment, and does not disprove the contention con-tention that many bodily afflictions can be dispelled by the mind. Upton Sinclair, by the way, Is directing di-recting the present campaign, known as the "mourning picket," which Is intended to force upon John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, Jr., a realization of the horror of the labor war In Colorado. Mr Sinclair Is a Socialist and an active worker in the cause of the oppressed. He Is an author of great ability and a man of high principles, though he may be too impressionable in temperament. tempera-ment. no |