Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) The Art of Life Series _The Sixth Sense_ THE ART OF LIFE SERIES _Edward Howard Griggs, Editor_ The Sixth Sense ITS CULTIVATION AND USE BY CHARLES H. BRENT AUTHOR OF “WITH GOD IN THE WORLD,” “LEADERSHIP,” “WITH GOD IN PRAYER,” ETC. NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1911 BY B. W. HUEBSCH PRINTED IN U. S. A. TO R. C. AND E. M. D., DEAR FRIENDS INTRODUCTORY NOTE This book was planned and promised to the publisher more than three years ago. Exacting duties have compelled the writer from time to time, to defer the completion of his undertaking. The delay has been profitable in that it has afforded opportunity for the study of recent works on kindred topics, which in some respects has modified and in some enlarged the original conception of the subject in hand. A long ocean voyage at last has provided the quiet in which to write out these thoughts. _SS. Prinz Eitel Friedrich_, Gulf of Aden, 8 January, 1911. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTORY NOTE 9 I THE SIXTH SENSE 13 II IN RELATION TO HEALTH 35 III IN RELATION TO THOUGHT 52 IV IN RELATION TO CHARACTER 69 V IN RELATION TO RELIGION 86 _The Sixth Sense_ CHAPTER I THE SIXTH SENSE By the Sixth Sense I mean the Mystic Sense, or that inner perceptive faculty which distinguishes man from the highest below him and allies him to the highest above him. So distinctive among created objects is it of man that it might, not inaptly, be characterized as the Human Sense. It is used for no one exclusive purpose; on the contrary it is only under its operation that man’s activities, one and all, become human. In its nature it differs essentially from the bodily senses though we are justified in thinking of it as a sense because its function is, like them, to perceive and to afford food for thought.