in the room, for instance, were first thought of, and in the majority of the cases the answers were correct.  Then numbers were thought of, and the answers were generally right, though, of course, there were some cases of error.  The names of towns were thought of, and a good many of these were right.  Then fancy names were thought of.  I was asked to think of certain fancy names, and mark them down and hand them round to the company.  I thought of and wrote on paper, ‘Blue-beard,’ ‘Tom Thumb,’ ‘Cinderella.’ and the answers were all correct!”

The committee also conducted a number of experiments with other recipients, with very satisfactory results.  Colors were correctly guessed with a percentage of successes quite beyond the average or probable number.  Names of towns in all parts of the world, were correctly “guessed” by certain recipients with a wonderful degree of success.  But, probably most wonderful of all, was the correct reproduction of diagrams of geometrical and other figures and shapes.  In one case, the recipient, in a series of nine trials, succeeded in drawing them all correctly, except that he frequently reversed them, making the upper-side down, and the right-hand side to the left.  The Society, has published these reproduced diagrams in its Illustrated reports, and they have convinced the most skeptical of critics.  Some of the diagrams were quite complicated, unusual, and even grotesque, and yet they were reproduced with marvelous accuracy, not in a hesitating manner, but deliberately and continuously, as if the recipient were actually copying a drawing in full sight.  Similar results have been obtained by other investigators who have followed the lead of these original ones.

So you see, the seal of scientific authority has been placed upon the phenomena of telepathy.  It is no longer in the realm of the supernatural or uncanny.  As Camille Flammarion, the eminent French scientist, has said:  “The action of one mind upon another at a distance—­the transmission of thought, mental suggestion, communication at a distance—­all these are not more extraordinary than the action of the magnet on iron, the influence of the moon on the sea, the transportation of the human voice by electricity, the revolution of the chemical constituents of a star by the analysis of its light, or, indeed, all the wonders of contemporary science.  Only these psychic communications are of a more elevated kind, and may serve to put us on the track of a knowledge of human nature.  What is certain is:  That telepathy can and ought to be henceforth considered by Science as an incontestable reality; that minds are able to act upon each other without the intervention of the senses; that psychic force exists, though its nature is yet unknown. * * * We say that this force is of a psychic order, and not physical, or physiological, or chemical, or mechanical, because it produces and transmits ideas and thoughts, and because it manifests itself without the co-operation of our senses, soul to soul, mind to mind.”