The New York herald., 1921-05-23
LANIMARION ACCEPTS MOOTED PSYCHIC MARVEL s.

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beings however, see the future as if it were
present"
1t is by an examination of the evidence
OF their existence on earth and their interest
in that the author leads up 10 the
frontier of the other world. What comes 70
him from there are not mere Whispers ne-
hind a curtain, but plain articulate speech,
much of 1t uttered after the cessation or
material life," to use the authors phrase.
And in this consideration he adds that less
than ever does he mean to depart from the
principles of rigorous scientific method
AS before, he draws witnesses from every
where to tell what mental sensations at the
pont of dissolution they have witnessed
among their friends in their family circle.
He offers a still richer cleaning of physical
manifestations of death. more difficult TO
comprehend and nevertheless as undeniable
as the former series.
There is a tendency to think that science
ought to explain everything and that reason
ought not to admit thing whose authen-
ticty is mex picable. This is grave error.
All observation merits examination, and OBJ
servations form the basis of science itself.
Explanations. theories only hypotheses;
not to be able to explain a fact dimnishes
m no way its value.
"Telepathy, the communication of thought
across spaces has not yet found plausible
certain definite explanation. Men not devoid
OF intelligence continue to deny it because
II cannot be explained. But we instruct our
selves by knowing facts despite their mys-
teriousness"
He Introduces Manifestations
Made at the Moment of Death
With these words the author introduces
his collection of manifestations at the mo
ment of death. One of his witnesses is
Alexander Dumas the elder, who was, he
admits a facile romancer. His testimony
refers to physical manifestations on the
occasions of his grandfather's and fathers
death From these and a bulk of other
similar raps knocks and other mysterious
noises Immediately following the death OF
persons the author is constrained to ask II
these did not proceed from the dead person
himself. And thereupon he puts this ques-
ton: Does not something of our being
iinger in the habtation (the body) In which
we have lived?"
without answering It he reverts again to
the subject OF apparitions, this time taxing
endless testimony to prove that they ofteh
are seen at the moment of death. And he
axclaims: How immense is the variety in
an these manifestations. Yet. as might be
expected many of them resemble each other.
The exposition could be prolonged indef-
initely. because | have so many positive
observations under my eyes"
In conclusion Flammarion repeats that
truth will be- discovered in psychical science
bv means of 4 comparison of numerous OBJ
servations, such he has gathered, exactly
as is done in the science of astronomy.
IAN these observations have established
that the human being consists not only Of
a material visible and ponderable bouy
known to everybody in general and to doc
tors i'm particular but at the same time OF
a psychic element, imponderable. gifted with
special intrinsic faculties. capable of acting
outside of the body and of manifesting itself
from a distance by means of forces Of whose
nature we are still ignorant. Upon 1t con-
dltons of time and space are not imposed.
Besides the actual experiences of radio
telegraphy and radio telephony establish
that our atmosphere is constantly per-
meated by ether waves that traverse walls
and do not become apparent to our senses
until they are caught by special apparatus
attuned to their vibrations. We live. night
and day IN the midst of an invisible world
I'VE know that the spiritual man exists
and that he Is relatively Independent of the
material man. What are the poethumous
manifestations Of this spiritual man? What
Is his ultra terrestrial state?"
With a promise OF answering these ques-
tions Flammarion concludes his study of
death