Brain-Waves: A Theory - Knowles

1869

“[Brain-Wave] will but be a vague, dim way, at the best, of communicating thought, or the sense of human presence, and proportionally so as the receiving brain is less and less highly sensitive. Yet, though it can never take the place of rudest articulation, it may have its own place and office other than and beyond speech. It may convey sympathies of feeling beyond all words to tell,—groanings of the spirit which cannot be uttered, visions of influences and impressions not else how communicable, may carry one’s living human presence to another by a more subtle and excellent way of sympathy.”

James T. Knowles, “Brain-Waves—A Theory,” The Spectator, January 30, 1869, https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1869-01-30_42_2118/page/136/mode/2up?view=theater