Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-04

me Nineteenth century, opens discus.
sion OF what is called telepathH AS teleg-
'dphy means writing at q distance, so teiep.
any means feeling at distance the inn
pulse OF another mine through channels as yet
unrecognized. 1t incudcs such cases as
when one gets au unaccountablc impression
mat friend Is dying or that one is wanted,
which proves to be correct.
There are two forms which tclrpathic pho
nomena assume. One is that of simple
thought transfcrcncc or mind reading, which
now may be accepted as an asccrtaincd pow
or. In mesmeric or hypnotic condition,
aud, indeed, without It, abundant expert
ments, have shown that impressions or ideas
can be easily transferred from one mind to
another by an act of will. Quite parallel to
| thls are those sudden, unexpected cases where
an impression from one mind passes sudden
ly to another, "a a sort of prescntimcnt or ap-
partition. The Society of rsychical Research
In England, is carefully investigating tue sub
iect, and is likely at least { } find out whcth-
er such phenomena are mere accident.
The writers in The Nineteenth Ccntu1.
treat not at oil of apparitions of the 80 e..
but only of the living. Correspond. g.
the powers of the mind, the senses, ,"O.
TONS the intellect and the ,rW, h.yC occur
cases of impressions from distance in these
various departments
Take first the Senses The wife of Arthur
Severn, the distinguished landscape painter,
woke at seven o'clock with start, feeling
a hard blow on the mouth and with dis
tinct sense of being cut and bleeding on the
under lip. She seized her handkerchief
and put it to her mouth as she sat up IL
bed, and was surprised on taking it away
to find that it was not bleeding. She con.
cluded she had been dreaming AT Ia Ak.
fast her husband, who had beer "' fol
an carly sail, appeared with a bad al n the
| lip made at that hour by the I'll 'hicf
had struck him in squat. A" trans
ferrcd emotion is that of the b; v j. Nj
Wilson, hcadmaster of CIi.ou college
and a distinguished mathematician
When in good health, one evening, while
student in Cambridge, he suddenly felt i'll
trembled with sort of fright, thought ht
was dying, tried to study, but could not
went to see a friend, who tried to distrac
his mind, but could not. After three hours
it passed off, and the next morning he wa
well. In the afternoon letter informed hin
that his twin brother had died the evening
before. Instances of telepathy in the reglor
of the intellect are very frequent IN som'
experience Mr. Keulemans, a scientific
draughtsman, who has had many similar in
stances, mentions the following: While re
turning home on street car it flashed on hi
mind, that his assistant, Dutchman, would
ask him what the English phrase to nit mean
in Dutch. He made note Of the impression
on paper, and on arriving home mentioned
to his wife. Soon after the assistant cam
in, and almost his first words were g Wat I
let UOllandsch uoOr to witt Inquiry show
ed that the time when he had resolved t
ask the question corresponded l
received the impression. A case of transfe
of piN is given by Alexander Skirving,
foreman of masons While at work, on
morning, he suddenly felt an intense desir
to go home 1t was long distance and h
could not well le,vc his work, and he resist
ed it. But the feeling became uncontrol
able, and though he believed his wife woul
ridicuc him, he went home. There he wa
met by woman who asked him "Why
Skirving, how did you know :" He kneN
nothing; but he had been compelled to com
home. He was told that his wife had bee
run over by cab, and seriously injured, an
had been piteously calling for him,
| These cases do not go into the supernatui
al. They do not concern visions OF the uca
or assumed communications from then
They do not pass belief We all have know
of similar cases in our acquaintance. Sc
ence has laughed at them as incredible, BIT
we may remember that Lavolsier said
, "Stones cannot fall from the sky for ther
are no stones in the sky But there ar
stones in the sky, and stones do fall. In
incredible happens, aud it is of no use to d'
ny such facts as we have given. How th
connection is made, by what wire the ole'
trio current passes from one mind to onothe1
by what wave, through what mcntiferot
! ether, we may one of these days disc)vc
AT prcsent we know nothing about it.