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
This book was planned and promised tothe publisher more than three years ago.Exacting duties have compelled the writerfrom time to time, to defer the completionof his undertaking. The delay has beenprofitable in that it has afforded opportunityfor the study of recent works on kindredtopics, which in some respects has modifiedand in some enlarged the original conceptionof the subject in hand. A long oceanvoyage at last has provided the quiet inwhich to write out these thoughts.
SS. Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Gulf of Aden, 8 January, 1911.
| 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 |
By the Sixth Sense I mean the MysticSense, or that inner perceptive facultywhich distinguishes man from the highestbelow him and allies him to the highestabove him. So distinctive among createdobjects is it of man that it might, not inaptly,be characterized as the HumanSense. It is used for no one exclusivepurpose; on the contrary it is only underits operation that man’s activities, one andall