Consciousness after Death.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3116, 30 January 1889, Page 3

Consciousness after Death.

Under the above heading a writer in last Monday's H.B, llerald quotes the following: -"A workman in the upper story of a woollen factory bad his le? 60.badly | mangled in the machinery that a! fellow workman cut it off with a hand eaw, and so placed it on the mantelpiece that its thigh lay "right under and near a stove pipe, while its foot hung over the end of the mantelpiece. Tho man whose leg had - been cut off was taken below, where he presently • complained that his amputated thigh ; was scorching, but the foot was 1 freezing. Said tho operator: 'The obvious cause was tho 1 stove-pipe heating his thigh and 'the cold winds freezing-his foot,' I Changed -it, and every timohetold wbioh part was under the stove-pipe and winch towards tho door. Bound to make assurance doubly sure, I thrust a pin into his.amputated tbigli abovo stairs, and that moment he screamed, swearing that they wevo pricking 'his amputated leg. I know it was cruel, but I wanted to test it, and three successive times the moment I pricked above he screamed and'swore below. A relation of sensation therefore existed botween 'liis etit-off leg above and himself .below, which ®fit down through .floors, ceilings, and stories something whidu told him below those changes "fP- instant transpiring in his leg above, How told him? Through this spirit leg. His leg must die. Its spirit l must leave its materia 1 , which it can no longer use. This'severing process takes six or more hours, during which this spirit leg, which is the real leg, its bones .and-muscles being mainly its agents, uncut by knife and saw, must needs Ahold-double connection with both dying leg above and living man below, thereby telling him its changing states." -Professor .1< owler.