The subject had never visited the house before, and naturally did not know the contents of the closet, as he was carefully observed from the moment he entered the house.

I could give many more interesting experiences of my own, but have cited sufficient, I trust, not .to convince my readers, but to interest them so that they may if they wish pursue the same line of experiments for themselves.

Experimental Thought-Transference in the Normal State.

This is another phase of the subject, but is hardly less interesting than telepathy during hypnosis.

The most extravagant claims have been made for it, and much which has been stated as telepathy, has not been genuine thought-transference.

Thanks to the Society for Psychical Research, a very large amount of evidence has been collected and tabulated. My own experiments in this direction have led to some interesting results.

If it be true that one mind can influence another and convey thoughts and ideas to it without using the ordinary avenues of the senses, it is the most stupendous discovery in psychology. If it fa not true, it is equally im-portaol to disprove it.

The Bight Hon A. J. Balfour, M P., Presi-dent of the Society for Psychical Research, in his address published August. 1894, says:

"What I am asserting is that the facts which we come across are very odd facts, and by that do not merely mean queer and unex-pected. I mean 'odd' in the sense that they are out of harmony with the accepted theories of the material world. They are not merely dramatically strange, they are not merely extraordinary and striking, hut they are odd in the sense that they will not easily fit in with the views which physicists and men of science generally give us of the universe in which we live.

"In order to illustrate this distinction I will take a very simple instance. I suppose everybody would say that it would be an extraordinary circumstance if, at no distant date, this earth on which we dwell were to come into collision with some unknown body travelling through space, and, as the result of the collision, be resolved into the ordinary gases of which it is composed. Yet though it would be an extraordinary and even an amazing event, it is after all one of which no astronomer, I venture to say, would assert the impossibility. He would say, I suppose, that it was unlikely, but that if it occurred it would not violate, or even modify, his general theories as to the laws which govern the movements of the celestial bodies. Our globe is a member of the solar system which is travelling I do not know how many miles a second in the direction of the constellation Hercules. There is no a priori ground for saying that in the course of that mysterious journey, of the cause of which we are perfectly ignorant, we shall not come across some body in inter-stellar space which will produce the uncomfortable results which I have ventured to indicate.

And, as a matter of fact, in the course of the last two hundred years, astronomers have themselves been witness to stellar tragedies of incomparably greater magnitude than that which would be produced by the destruction of so insignificant a planet as the world, in which we happen to be personally interested. We have seen stars which shine from an unknown distance, and are of unknown magnitude, burst into sudden conflagration, blaze brightly for a time, and then slowly die out again. What that phenomenon precisely indicates of course we cannot say, but it certainly indicates an accident of far more startling and tremendous kind than the shattering of our particular world, which to us would seem, doubtless, extraordinary enough.

"This, then, is a specimen of what I mean by a dramatically extraordinary event. Now I shall give you a case of what I mean by a scientifically extraordinary event, which, as you will at once perceive, may be one which at first sight, and to many observers, may appear almost commonplace and familiar. I have constantly met people who will tell you, with no apparent consciousness that they are saying anything more out of the way than an observation about the weather, that by an exercise of their will they can make anybody at a little distance turn around and look at them. Now such a fact (if fact it be) is far more scientifically extraordinary than would be the destruction of this globe by celestial catastrophe as I have imagined. How profoundly mistaken, then, are they who think that this exercise of will power as they call it, is the most natural and most normal thing in the world, something that everybody would have expected, something which hardly deserves scientific notice or requires scientific explanation.

In reality it is a profound mystery, if it be true, or if anything like it be true; and no event, however startling, which easily finds its appropriate niche in the structure of the physical sciences ought to excite half so much intellectual curiosity as should this dull and, at first sight, commonplace phenomenon."

The claim has been made by the opponents of spiritualism that many of the phenomena which are attributed by the spiritualists to be the results of spirits are really explicable upon this hypothesis. If it be true, the phenomena are scarcely less wonderful than they would be if of spiritual origin.

This is not the book in which to discuss at length such a supposition, and it is merely noted here for the sake of calling attention to the possibility of such being the fact.

If it be true that one living mind can affect another at a distance, it does not follow that the mind might not do so in another world. It is a very common experience for some one to think of some friend before meeting him, when the person has not been in the mind for years. Direct thought-transmission by experiment is not so thoroughly known. The experiment is easily tried, and it is to be hoped that what is here written may lead to a wider study of the subject.