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Lest childless couples disbelieve that experience, Dr. Perkins cited another experience "which is frequent enough to be called common." "I refer," wrote Dr. Perkins, "to the stimulating effect upon the nervous centres controlling the reproductive apparatus which is experienced as a result of the proximity of a little child. The maternal instincts, not quite the same as but certainly very closely associated with the reproductive urge, are definitely aroused by this contact. Perhaps the reason why it has not been brought to general notice more forcibly is that the people who have experienced this sensation are a little ashamed...
...long been my opinion that we are all educated, whether children, men or women, far more by personal influence than by books and the apparatus of schools. If I could be taken back into boyhood today, and had all the libraries and apparatus of a university, with ordinary routine professors, offered me on the one hand, and on the other a great, luminous, rich-souled man, such as Dr. Hopkins was 20 years ago, in a tent in the woods alone, I should say give me Dr. Hopkins for my college course rather than any university with only routine professors...
There is no question that levitation and other tricks can be performed on the stage, provided arrangements can be made for the necessary apparatus. In India, all the "tricks" are done in the open air with the audience all round the performer. In the case of the holy man referred to what your readers will not realize is that such a man is not out to do stunts. His chief business is with God, and night and day he lives practically in the open with his disciples. The idea that he should have had the apparatus described by your correspondents...
...King Leopold III candidly faced Europe last week with the fact that its entire post-War structure of pacts and apparatus to keep Peace has now virtually collapsed. Spunky little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty...
...confronted with much paraphernalia that Shakspere never dreamed of. The staging of a play in the Bard's day was a simple matter. Now, however we have to decide what he would have done had he had the use of the apparatus which we have," explained Mr. Howard...