Illustrations of mind-work occur continually in literature. A recent instance is in the new tragedy by Edgar Fawcett, called The Earl. The hero has allowed his taunting brother to perish in a cave, from which he might have rescued him. Ever after he hears his dead brother's voice cry Help,—so plainly that he wonders others do not hear the sound; yet this sound is wholly in the Earl's own mind; as the jingle of bells, in the famous French play, by Erckmann-Chatrian, is heard only by the innkeeper, Matthias, who has assassinated the Polish Jew in his sleigh. The sounds within the mind are as real as those heard from outside.
Editorials
SOUNDS FROM WITHIN
From the May 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal