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will be regarded as proof of incipient
lunacy, If they are set forth in print.
Facts of Thought Transference.

will be regarded as proof of incipient
lunacy, If they are set forth in print.
Facts of Thought Transference.
l therefore proceed to put forth briefly
a statement of what has already been
demonstrated as possible in a region of
thought transference, and base upon that
a statement as to what 1 think may be re-
garded as lying well within the possibili-
ties of the future
Thought transference or, as il is usually
called, telepathy, or the transmission of an
idea from one mind to another without
spoken word or language or sign of any
kind, has now taken its place as one of
those facts the existence of which is de-
MED by no honest investigator.
No doubt the laws of telepathic transmits
sion of thought from mind TO mind are
very obscure. Their operation is little
understood, and even in the best subjects
continually occur strange lapses and mis-
takes difficult to account for. perplexing
and embarrassing; but a thousand mis-
takes, thousand miscarriages do not
count for anything compared with one
success, and in the case of telepathy we
have much more than one success
The best way to illustrate this subject
Is to imagine a modern city. evacuated
by all its inhabitants on the approach of
an army of men who have never heard
Of the telephone. The invading forces
would find telephones everywhere and
would naturally be immensely puzzled to
explain their meaning. In the effort to
understand the significance of the wires
many of them would be DESTROYED. and
muiUitudes of telephone boxes would be
battered To pieces in the vain effort to
make them yield up their secret But
some day by the merest chance one of the
strangers might happen TO talk into
telephone that was switched on TO some
one else whose ear was at the receiver at
Ea at hAaa md
an occurrence would be a million 10 one
more; but it might happen.
thousand, hundred thousand abort
i've experiments with other telephones
which were not switched on ut the receiv-
er, of which was not held 90 the ear of
any one, would prove nothing as against
the fact that on certain occasion two
persons i'm their sane senses had undoubt-
eddy spoken and been heard by the tele-
phone.
1t is just so with telepathy. We are like
those barbarians in the modern city. our
telephone boxes are not visible to the eye
but they exist. A few have found out
that they can be used, and such commu-
nications having once been established and
repeatedly verified by subsequent expert
ment establish the fact of the existence
of telepathy on a foundation which is not
In the least affected by the failure of any
number of other experimenters or even of
the same experlmenters to reproduce the
same success.
The methods Of telepathy vary. The
simplest is that in which thought in the
mind of one passes directly, without any
intervening medium, unless il be that of
the ether upon which the mind wave tray
els TO the brain of another person, with
whom it is in a condition of receptivitv.
In that case. the receipt of the teepathc
message is usually regarded merely as an
impression upon the mind. Every one is
aware of thoughts which seem suddenly
10 arise in ones mind, without any appar-
ent cause. IAN idea strikes me-" we say.