Chapter V. [630 D, etc.]; also _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. p. 455

[630 F]; and _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. vii. pp. 325-329 [630 E]: _ibid._ pp. 234-237, pp. 299-306 and pp. 311-319; and vol. xii. p. 223 (March 1906).

[108] It is plain that on this view there is no theoretical reason for limiting telepathy to human beings. For aught we can say, the impulse may pass between man and the lower animals, or between the lower animals themselves. See _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. xi. pp. 278-290 and pp. 323-4; the same, vol. xii. pp. 21-3; the same, vol. iv. p. 289; and _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xiv. p. 285.

[109] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. pp. 25-422.

[110] See also _Phantasms of the Living_ vol. ii. p. 96 [§ 653], and for an auditory case, _ibid._ p. 100 [§ 655].

[111] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 78 [§ 645]. See also _op. cit._, p. 82 _et seq._

[112] _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. p. 306 [§ 646]. See also the case in _Phantasms of the Living_ (vol. ii. p. 217) [§ 647], where an apparition was seen _by its original_ and by others _at the same time_.

[113] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 144 [651 A] and _ibid._ p. 61 [§ 651].

[114] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 97 [654 A].

[115] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 194 [654 B].

[116] See Chapter IX., _passim_.

[117] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vii. pp. 30-99 [572 A and 573 B]; _op. cit._, 199-220 [573 C]; _Zoist_, vol. vii. pp. 95-101, vol. ix. p. 234, vol. xii. pp. 249-52; and Dr. Fahnestock's _Statuvolism_, especially pp. 127-35 and 221-32.

[118] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 31 [662 B].

[119] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 37 [662 D].

[120] See _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. vii. p. 25 [665 A].

[121] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 35 [662 C].

[122] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 265 [§ 664].

[123] For examples of various types see _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. vii. p. 25; vol. v. p. 68, and _op. cit._, p. 147 [665 A, B and C].

[124] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 162; _op. cit._, p. 164; _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vii. p. 41 [666 A, B and C].

[125] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 527, for example [667 A].

[126] For cases see the second edition of _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. lxxxi; _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. pp. 270, 273, and 418; _Forum_, March 1900; _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. iv. p. 217; vol. vii. p. 99 [668 A to G]. See also _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 103 and vol. ii. p. 675; and the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 307.

[127] Some such power as this is frequently claimed in oriental books as attainable by mystic practices. We have not thus far been fortunate enough to discover any performances corresponding to these promises.

[128] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vii. pp. 199-220 [573 C].

[129] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 231.

[130] Some word is much needed to express communications between one state and another, _e.g._ between the somnambulic and the waking state, or, in hypnotism, the cataleptic and the somnambulic, etc. The word "methectic" ([Greek: methektikhos]) seems to me the most suitable, especially since [Greek: methexis] happens to be the word used by Plato (Parm. 132 D.) for participation between ideas and concrete objects. Or the word "inter-state" might be pressed into this new duty.

[131] See for example Mr. Cameron Grant's case. (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 202.)

[132] _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. v. pp. 404-408.

[133] In some experimental cases, it will be remembered, the impression takes effect through the _motor_, not the _sensory_, system of the recipient, as by automatic writing, so that he is never directly aware of it at all.

[134] See, for instance, case 500, _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 462.

[135] I mean by "ordinary" the classes which are recognised and treated of in _Phantasms of the Living_. But if the departed survive, the possibility of thought-transference between them and those who remain is of course a perfectly tenable hypothesis. "As our telepathic theory is a psychical one, and makes no physical assumptions, it would be perfectly applicable (though the _name_ perhaps would be inappropriate) to the conditions of disembodied existence."--_Phantasms_, vol. i. p. 512.

[136] Certain statistics as to these time-relations are given by Edmund Gurney as follows (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. v. p. 408): "The statistics drawn from the first-hand records in _Phantasms of the Living_ as to the time-relation of appearances, etc., occurring in close proximity to deaths, are as follows:--In 134 cases the coincidence is represented as having been exact, or, when times are specifically stated, close to within an hour. In 104 cases it is not known whether the percipient's experience preceded or followed the death; such cases cannot be taken account of for our present purpose. There remain 78 cases where it appears that there was an interval of more than an hour; and of these 38 preceded and 40 followed the death. Of the 38 cases where the percipient's experience preceded the death (all of which, of course, took place during a time when the "agent" was seriously ill), 19 fell within twenty-four hours of the death. Of the 40 cases where the percipient's experience followed the death, all followed within an interval of twenty-four hours, and in only one (included by mistake) was the twelve hours' interval certainly exceeded, though there are one or two others where it is possible that it was slightly exceeded."

[137] The _Proceedings_ of the American Society for Psychical Research (vol. i. p. 405) contain a case where a physician and his wife, sleeping in separate but adjoining rooms, are both of them awakened by a bright light. The physician sees a figure standing in the light; his wife, who gets up to see what the light in her husband's room may be, does not reach that room till the figure has disappeared. The figure is not clearly identified, but has some resemblance to a patient of the physician's, who has died suddenly (from hemorrhage) about three hours before, calling for her doctor, who did not anticipate this sudden end. Even this resemblance did not strike the percipient until after he knew of the death, and the defect in _recognition_ weakens the case evidentially.

[138] The references in this and the two following pages are to _Phantasms of the Living_.

[139] See the cases of Major Moncrieff (i. p. 415); of Mr. Keulemans (i. p. 444), where the second phantasm was held by the percipient to convey a fresh veridical picture; of Mr. Hernaman (i. p. 561), where, however, the agent was alive, though dying, at the time of the appearance; see also the cases of Mrs. Ellis (ii. p. 59); of Mrs. D. (ii. p. 467); of Mrs. Fairman (ii. p. 482), and of Mr. F. J. Jones (ii. p. 500), where the death was again due to drowning, and the act of dying cannot, therefore, have been very prolonged. We may note also Mrs. Reed's case (ii. p. 237), Captain Ayre's (ii. p. 256) and Mrs. Cox's (ii. p. 235). In the case of Miss Harriss (ii. p. 117) a hallucinatory _voice_, about the time of the death, but not suggesting the decedent, is followed by a dream the next night, which presents the dead person as in the act of dying. One or two other cases might be added to this list, and it is plain that the matter is one towards which observation should be specially directed.

[140] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 305; _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 180; _ibid._ p. 194.

[141] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii p. 236 [716 B].

[142] See for instance _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vi. p. 20; the same, vol. xi p. 429 and _Phantasms of the Living_, vol ii. p. 208 [717 A, B and C].

[143] _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. p. 214 [719 A].

[144] _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 449 [719 B].

[145] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. v. pp. 422-26 [§ 720].

[146] The cases recorded in _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 216, and _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. p. 263 [727 A and B] may be regarded as deflected fulfilments.

[147] _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. p. 383. See also _ibid._ p. 371 and vol. viii. p. 214 [728 A and B and § 726].

[148] For the other case see _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i. p. 265.

[149] For cases illustrating this, see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. v. p. 409 [§ 734]; also _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 220; _ibid._ p. 218; _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 690; and _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. x. p. 373 [§ 736 and 736 A, B and C].

[150] See for instance _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. vii. p. 173.

[151] This analogy suggests itself still more forcibly in the remarkable case recorded in _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. xii. p. 17. Here the visions, seen in a mirror, were perceived simultaneously, though not quite in the same way, by four witnesses, and lasted for an appreciable length of time.

[152] See the _Proceedings_ of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. i. p. 446 [741 A].

[153] In the case recorded in _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 173 [§ 742], the decedent would appear to be satisfying both a local and a personal attraction. See also the cases given in _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 93, and vol. v. p. 437 [742 A], which are somewhat similar.

[154] See, however, Sir Arthur Beecher's case (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 110) where there was at least a rumour of some crime. In Mrs. M.'s case, too (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 178) and Mrs. Pennée's (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vi. p. 60) there is some indication of past troubles in which the percipients, of course, were in no way concerned. But in no other cases has there been anything, as far as we know, which could trouble the departed spirit with importunate memories of his earthly home.

[155] For a discussion of this problem, illustrated by a large number of cases, see my article on "Retrocognition and Precognition" in the _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. pp. 334-593.

[156] See, however, Mrs. Sidgwick's remarks (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. pp. 79-80), as to the rarity of any indication of intelligence in such sounds, and the possibility of reading more intelligence into them than they really possess. There is now, of course, more evidence as to these sounds than there was at the date of Mrs. Sidgwick's paper (1885).

[157] Thus Mrs. Sidgwick, even as far back as 1885 (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 142), writes: "I can only say that having made every effort--as my paper will, I hope, have shown--to exercise a reasonable scepticism, I yet do not feel equal to the degree of unbelief in human testimony necessary to avoid accepting, at least provisionally, the conclusion that there are, in a certain sense, haunted houses, i.e., that there are houses in which similar quasi-human apparitions have occurred at different times to different inhabitants, under circumstances which exclude the hypothesis of suggestion or expectation."

[158] This case is given in Appendix VII. G.

[159] In an earlier part of this paper, I mentioned cases of haunted houses where the apparitions are various, and might therefore all of them be merely subjective hallucinations, sometimes, perhaps, caused by expectancy. It is, of course, also possible to explain these cases by the hypothesis we are now discussing. Another class of cases is, perhaps, worth mentioning in this connection. We have in the collection two cases of what was believed by the narrators to be a quite peculiar feeling of discomfort, in houses where concealed and long since decomposed bodies were subsequently found. Such feelings are seldom dearly defined enough to have much evidential value, for others, at any rate, than the percipient; even though mentioned beforehand, and definitely connected with the place where the skeleton was. But if there be really any connection between the skeleton and the feeling, it may possibly be a subtle physical influence such as I am suggesting.--E. M. S.

[160] To avoid misconception, I may point out that this view in no way negatives the possibility that telepathy (or its correlative telergy) may be in some of its aspects commoner, or more powerful, among savages than among ourselves. Evolutionary processes are not necessarily _continuous_. The acquirement by our lowly-organised ancestors of the sense of _smell_ (for instance) was a step in evolution. But the sense of smell probably reached its highest energy in races earlier than man; and it has perceptibly declined even in the short space which separates civilised man from existing savages. Yet if, with some change in our environment, the sense of smell again became useful, and we reacquired it, this would be none the less an evolutionary process because the evolution had been interrupted.

[161] I do not wish to assert that _all_ unfamiliar psychical states are necessarily evolutive or dissolutive in any assignable manner. I should prefer to suppose that there are states which may better be styled _allotropic_;--modifications of the arrangements of nervous elements on which our conscious identity depends, but with no more conspicuous _superiority_ of the one state over the other than (for instance) charcoal possesses over graphite or graphite over charcoal. But there may also be states in which the (metaphorical) carbon becomes _diamond_;--with so much at least of _advance_ on previous states as is involved in the substitution of the crystalline for the amorphous structure.

[162] See, for instance, _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. i. p. 291.

[163] _Sensation et Mouvement_, par Ch. Féré. Paris: Alcan, 1887.

[164] _La Suggestion Mentale_ (see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ii. pp. 239 _sqq._).

[165] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ii. pp. 226-31 [830 A].

[166] See Mr. Wilkinson's book _Spirit Drawings: a Personal Narrative_. But, of course, like other automatic impulses, this impulse to decorative or symbolical drawing is sometimes seen at its maximum in insane patients. Some drawings of an insane patient, reproduced in the _American Journal of Psychology_, June 1888, show a noticeable analogy (in my view a _predictable_ analogy) with some of the "spirit-drawings" above discussed. See also the Martian landscapes of Hélène Smith, in Professor Flournoy's _Des Indes à la planète Mars_.

[167] An account of recorded instances of Socratic monitions and some discussion of them is given in the original edition [§ 813, 814].

[168] _Du Démon de Socrate_, etc., by L. F. Lélut, Membre de l'Institut. Nouvelle édition, 1856.

[169] For other authorities see Mr. Andrew Lang's paper in _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. pp. 198-212.

[170] On this point, see Mr. Lang's paper referred to above.

[171] See Plutarch's _De genio Socratis_.

[172] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. i., Chapter VII, _passim_.

[173] See _Proceedings_ of the American S.P.R., vol. i. p. 397; _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ix. pp. 33 and 35 [817 A, B, and C].

[174] The case is recorded in _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. v. p. 136 [817 D].

[175] For a somewhat similar case, possibly due to hyperæsthesia of hearing, see _American Journal of Psychology_, vol. iii. p. 435 (September 1890).

[176] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. pp. 419 and 421 [821 A].

[177] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. p. 422 and 423 [§§ 822 and 823]; also a case given in _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 345, where a lady hurrying up to the door of a lift, is stopped by seeing a figure of a man standing in front of it, and then finds that the door is open, leaving the well exposed, so that she would probably have fallen down it, if she had not been checked by the apparition.

[178] _Revue de l'Hypnotisme_, March 1893, p. 268.

[179] When the automatic drawings have any telepathic or other supernormal content, they are usually associated with automatic writing. Compare the case of Mr. Cameron Grant (_Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 690).

[180] See James's _Psychology_, vol. i. p. 394: "One curious thing about trance utterances is their generic similarity in different individuals.... It seems exactly as if one author composed more than half of the trance messages, no matter by whom they are uttered. Whether all sub-conscious selves are peculiarly susceptible to a certain stratum of the _Zeitgeist_, and get their inspiration from it, I know not." See the account of automatic and impressional script, by Mr. Sidney Dean, which Professor James goes on to quote, and which is closely parallel to (for instance) Miss A.'s case, to be referred to below, although the one series of messages comes from the hand of a late member of Congress, "all his life a robust and active journalist, author, and man of affairs," and the other from a young lady with so different a history and _entourage_.

[181] Some other cases of Mr. Smith's will be found in this volume. See also _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 25 [§ 831] for a case of Prof. Sidgwick's, and _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ii. pp. 226-231 for the complex "Clelia" case. Other cases of imaginary personalities are to be found in the accounts of possession which have come down to us from the "Ages of Faith." See for example the autobiography of Soeur Jeanne des Anges (_Bibliothèque Diabolique_ [collection Bourneville] Paris, 1886).

[182] For the description of a curious case combining various motor automatisms in a very unusual way, see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ix. p. 182 [§ 833].

[183] For Mlle. Smith's later history, see Professor Flournoy's _Nouvelles Observations sur un cas de Somnambulisme_, Geneva, 1902.

[184] We have already printed several incidents of this type in our _Proceedings_ and _Journal_. (See, for instance, _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. viii. p. 344 [818 A].)

[185] A somewhat similar but less complex set of experiments by Mr. G. M. Smith is given in the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. v. pp. 318-320 [843 B].

[186] For further cases see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. pp. 2 and 5 [§§ 845 and 847].

[187] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. iii. pp. 8-23 [849 A]. For a series of experiments on a smaller scale but analogous to these see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ix. (1893), pp. 61-64.

[188] Mr. Newnham procured for me two autograph letters from eye-witnesses of some of the experiments, who do not, however, wish their names to be published. One writer says: "You wrote the question on a slip of paper and put it under one of the ornaments of the chimney-piece--no one seeing what you had written. Mrs. Newnham sat apart at a small table. I recollect you kept a book of the questions asked and answers given, as you thought some new power might be discovered, and you read me from it some of the results. I remember particularly questions and answers relating to the selection of a curate for B. My wife and her sister saw experiments conducted in this manner. Mrs. Newnham and you were sitting at different tables." Another eye-witness writes: "I and my sister were staying at----, and were present at many of the Planchette experiments of Mr. and Mrs. Newnham. Mr. and Mrs. Newnham sat at different tables some distance apart, and in such a position that it was quite impossible Mrs. Newnham could see what question was written down. The subject of the questions was never mentioned even in a whisper. Mr. Newnham wrote them down in pencil and sometimes passed them to me and my sister to see, but not often. Mrs. Newnham immediately answered the questions. Though not always correct, they (the answers) always referred to the questions. Mr. Newnham copied out the pencil questions and answers verbatim each day into a diary."

[189] For further cases see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ix. p. 44 [851 A]; _ibid._ p. 48 [§ 852]; _ibid._ p. 64 [§ 853]; _ibid._ p. 65 [§ 854]. Also _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ii. p. 236; vol. vi. pp. 112-115 [§ 855 and 856]; vol. xi. pp. 477-481 [852 B]; vol. ix. pp. 67-70 [857 A and 858 A].

[190] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ix. (1893) pp. 73-92 [839 A and 625 C].

[191] For another series of messages which afford an interesting field for the discussion of the rival hypotheses of "cryptomnesia" and spirit-control, see _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. iv. p. 319; _op. cit._ p. 174; and _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. ix. p. 92 [§§ 860, 861 and 862 A].

[192] For further examples see the cases given in _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vi. pp. 355-57; vol. viii. pp. 242-48; _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. iii. pp. 216-19; vol. ix. pp. 65-8; vol. ix. pp. 280-84 [868 A and B, 869 A and B, § 873].

[193] See the "Report of Dr. Ira Barrows on the case of Miss Anna Winsor." An account of Professor James' inquiry into the case will be found in _Proceedings_ of the American S.P.R., vol. i. p. 552 [237 A].

[194] The cases of Swedenborg, Cahagnet's subject, D. D. Home, and Stainton Moses will be discussed in the course of this chapter.

[195] _Bibliothèque Diabolique_ (Collection Bourneville). Paris: Aux Bureaux du Progrès Medical, 1886 [832 B].

[196] See Professor Janet's paper in the _Revue Philosophique_, March, 1888. The case is also constantly referred to in his _L'Automatisme Psychologique_.

[197] See page 49.

[198] See page 288.

[199] One important point of similarity is the concurrence in some savage ceremonies of utterance through an invading spirit and travelling clairvoyance exercised meantime by the man whose organism is thus invaded. The uncouth spirit shouts and bellows, presumably with the lungs of the medicine-man, hidden from view in profound slumber. Then the medicine-man awakes,--and tells the listening tribe the news which his sleep-wanderings, among gods or men, have won.

If this indeed be thus, it fits in strangely with the experience of our modern seers,--with the spiritual interchange which takes place when a discarnate intelligence occupies the organism and meantime the incarnate intelligence, temporarily freed, awakes to wider percipience,--in this or in another world.

[200] See _Modern Spiritualism; a History and a Criticism_, by Frank Podmore (Methuen and Co., London, 1902).

[201] In this edition the Synopsis alone is given. See Appendix IX. A.

[202] The asterisks indicate the end of the part of this chapter which was consecutively composed by the author. The rest of the chapter consists chiefly of fragments written by him at different times.

[203] This as well as the next two cases mentioned are given in Appendix IX. B.

[204] See _X + Y = Z; or, The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama. Containing an account of most wonderful mysterious mental phenomena, fully authenticated by living witnesses._ By the Rev. G. W. Mitchell. (New York: W. C. Smith, 67 John Street, 1876) [934 A].

[205] For Kant's evidence in regard to the supernormal powers of Swedenborg, see "Dreams of a Spirit Seer," by Immanuel Kant, translated by E. F. Goerwitz; edited by Frank Sewall (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1900) [936 A].

[206] See also an account of the "Seeress of Prevorst," translated from the German by Mrs. Crowe, and published in London in 1845 [936 B].

[207] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. p. 560 [936 C].

[208] The chief sources of information as to D. D. Home's life and experiences are the following works:--

_Incidents in my Life_, by D. D. Home (1st edition, London, 1863; 2nd edition, 1864; second series, 1872).

_D. D. Home: His Life and Mission_, by Madame Dunglas Home (London, 1888).

_The Gift of D. D. Home_, by Madame Dunglas Home (London, 1890).

_Report on Spiritualism of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society_ (London, 1871). This contains the evidence of the Master of Lindsay,--now Earl of Crawford and Balcarres,--and others.

_Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr. D. D. Home_, by Viscount Adare (now Lord Dunraven; privately printed).

_Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism_, by William Crookes, F.R.S. Reprinted from the _Quarterly Journal of Science_ (London, 1874).

_Notes of Séances with D. D. Home_, by William Crookes, F.R.S. (_Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vi. p. 98.)

See also a review by Professor Barrett and the present writer of Madame Home's first book, _D. D. Home: His Life and Mission_, in the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. iv. pp. 101-136; a briefer review of her second book, _The Gift of D. D. Home_, in the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. iv. p. 249; and a note on "The Character of D. D. Home" in the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. vi. p. 176; also an article by Mr. Hamilton Aidé, "Was I hypnotised?" in the _Nineteenth Century_ for April 1890.

[209] See _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vi. pp. 436-659; vol. viii. pp. 1-167; vol. xiii. pp. 284-582; vol. xiv. pp. 6-78; vol. xv. pp. 16-52; vol. xvi. pp. 1-649.

[210] For a discussion of Professor Hyslop's report see _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xvii. pp. 331-388.

[211] The original unabridged edition was published in two volumes.

[212] The Synthetic Society, before which these pages were first read as a paper in March 1899.

[213] _Enn._ vi. 4, 14.

[214] _Enn._ iv. 3, 27.

[215] _Enn._ v. 2-3. The World-Soul is _supra grammaticam_; and Plotinus sometimes uses a personal, sometimes an impersonal, locution to express what is infinitely beyond the conception of personality, as it is infinitely beyond any human conception whatsoever.

[216] For the fullest account of Félida, see _Hypnotisme_, _Double Conscience_, etc., par le Dr. Azam. Paris, 1887.

[217] _Revue Scientifique_, 3e série, xxxii. p. 167.

[218] An apparent discrepancy between Professor Hilprecht's account and that of Mrs. Hilprecht calls for explanation. Professor Hilprecht states that he verified his dream on Sunday morning at the University; Mrs. Hilprecht that he verified it immediately upon awaking, in his library. Both statements are correct. He had a working copy in his library which he examined at once, but hurried to the University next morning to verify it by comparison with the authorised copy made from the originals.--W. R. N.

[219] This appendix has been greatly abridged.

[220] See _Annales Médico-Psychologiques_, 1882, p. 75, and Dr. Berjon, _La grande Hystéric chez l'Homme_, Paris, 1886.

[221] _Annales Médico-Psychologiques_, 1884, vol. ii. p. 289 _seqq._

[222] Dr. E. Dufour, médecin en chef de l'asile Saint-Robert (Isère). See _Annales Médico-Psychologiques_, September 1886, p. 238, and _Contribution à l'étude de l'hypnotisme_, par le Dr. Dufour, Grenoble, 1887.

[223] It was not unusual for her to sit in the _salon_ in the evening, after the day's occupations were over.

[224] I noted on this narrative at the time I received it: "This account is entirely concordant with the account written by Mrs. Ramsay before reading Mrs. Elgee's account in 1888, and abstracted by me for an article in _Murray's Magazine_. There was this discrepancy between Mrs. Elgee and Mrs. Ramsay,--that Mrs. Ramsay thought that the figure wore a beard, whereas Mrs. Elgee saw him as she knew him--with whiskers only. He certainly had no beard at the time."

[225] A plan enclosed shows a suite of four rooms, M. Potolof's study, the ante-room, the drawing-room, and M. Mamtchitch's study, all opening into one another, the three doors between them being in one straight line.

[226] See "Phantasms of the Dead from another point of view," _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. vi. p. 291.

[227] We have ascertained that this date was a Sunday.

[228] Some of the correspondence about the case given in the _Proceedings_ is omitted here for want of space.

[229] A dream in which a message of somewhat the same kind is given is recorded in the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. vii. p. 188. See also the old case of Dr. Binns, given in his _Anatomy of Sleep_, p. 462.

[230] An account of this case appeared in an article by Herman Snow in the _Religio-Philosophical Journal_ for January 31st, 1891, and Mr. Snow also sent us an earlier article on the subject which he had written in 1881, and of which his second account was a mere repetition. The facts were related to him by the Unitarian minister of the place where Mrs. Finney lived; and this third-hand account recorded by Mr. Snow fifteen years after the event closely coincides with Mrs. Finney's first-hand one, recorded twenty-five years after the event.

[231] In this edition the synopsis of the scheme alone is given.

[232] This appendix was written originally with a special view to the phenomena alleged to occur in the case of Mr. W. Stainton Moses.

[233] Mr. Goodall thinks that the mule's sudden fall, otherwise unexplainable, may have been due to terror at some apparition of the dying child.

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