Goethe on Thought-Reading
I A correspondent of a home paper calls attention to the following passage from Goethe's prose works apropos ot thought reading: — "One soul may have a decided influence upon another, merely by means of its silent presence, of which I. could relate many instances it had often happened to me that when f I have been walking with an acquaint--1 ance and have had a living ima.-e of something m my mind,, he has at once ' begun to speak'" of that verj thing. I have also f known a man who withj out saying a word* could suddenly • silence a party engaged in cheerful ! conversation by the mere power of his mind. Nay, he could also introduce atone which would . make everybody feel uncomfortahie. We have all something of electric and magnetic force within us. ... It is possible; nay even probable, tha!; if a young- girl were, without knowing it, to find herself in a dark chamber with a man who designed to murder her she would have an uneasy sense of his unknown presence, and that an anguish would soon coire over her which would drive her to the family parlor." _______^__ t
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 81, 18 December 1884, Page 3
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