The ability of the human mind to think double is remarkable. I know experienced speakers who speak altogether from manuscript who will be d ing one part of their speech with great carnestness and passion, seeming to look straight at their audience, while at the same time they are reading the next section to delivered, Judge Henry Neil tells the "Daily News.'
My own mind seems to me to be divided into two compartments, because I can keep one part at work on the speech am delly ing and at the same time be think: ing out another speech to be delivered a little later on. I was rather startled the first time this became apparent to me. I was speaking at one meeting, while an automobile was waiting to take me to another, and I found that I was speaking to the first audience and at the same time thinking out my speech for the second. It was just as though I bad two minds; and the working of one did not in the least affect the working of the other.
I know many very rapid Court stenographers that have this double mental faculty very highly developed. While they are takin; down a rapid speech in shorthand, they are also thinking of what they intend to do after the Court adjournns. After they have taken down the speech their mind does not retain anything that was said, Tt seems that the words of the speech go into their ears and out through their fingers. They scarcely remember what the speech was about, and if asked a question they have to refer to their notes, This double mental faculty is possessed by everyone, to some extent. Anyone can talk about one subjex 11 be thinking about
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