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instance.
``Turn back to page 156.@@@
``A young woman, adored by her husband, dies at Moscow. Her father-in-law, at
Pulkowo, near St. Petersburg, saw her that same hour by his side. She walked with him
along the street; then she disappeared. Surprised, startled, and terrified, he telegraphed to
his son, and learned both the sickness and the death of his daughter-in-law.
``We are absolutely obliged to admit that SOMETHING emanated from the dying
woman and touched her father-in-law. This thing unknown may have been an ethereal
movement, as in the case of light, and may have been only an effect, a product, a result;
but this effect must have had a cause, and this cause evidently proceeded from the woman
who was dying. Can the constitution of the brain explain this projection? I do not think
that any anatomist or physiologist will give this question an affirmative answer. One feels
that there is a force unknown, proceeding, not from our physical organization, but from
that in us which can think.
``Take another example (see page 57).@@@
``A lady in her own house hears a voice singing. It is the voice of a friend now in a
convent, and she faints, because she is sure it is the voice of the dead. At the same
moment that friend does really die, twenty miles away from her.
``Does not this give us the impression that one soul holds communication with another?
``Here is another example (page 163):@@@

``The wife of a captain who has gone out to the Indian mutiny sees one night her husband
standing before her with his hands pressed to his breast, and a look of suffering on his
face. The agitation that she feels convinces her that he is either killed or badly wounded.
It was November 14th. The War Office subsequently publishes his death as having taken
place on November 15th. She endeavors to have the true date ascertained. The War
Office was wrong. He died on the 14th.
``A child six years old stops in the middle of his play and cries out, frightened: ``Mamma,
I have seen Mamma.'' At that moment his mother was dying far away from him (page
124).@@@
``A young girl at a ball stops short in the middle of a dance and cries, bursting into tears.
`My father is dead; I have just seen him.' At that moment her father died. She did not
even know he was ill.
``All these things present themselves to us as indicating not physiological operations of
one brain acting on another, but psychic actions of spirit upon spirit. We feel that they
indicate to us some power unknown.
``No doubt it is difficult to apportion what belongs to the spirit, the soul, and what
belongs to the brain. We can only let ourselves be guided in our judgment and our
appreciations by the same feeling that is created in us by the discussion of phenomena.
This is how all science has been started. Well, and does not every one feel that we have
here to do with manifestations from beings capable of thought, and not with material
physiological facts only?
``This impression is superabundantly confirmed by investigation concerning the
unknown faculties of the soul, when active in dreams and somnambulism.
``A brother learns the death of his young sister by a terrible nightmare.
``A young girl sees beforehand, in a dream, the man whom she will marry.
``A mother sees her child lying in a road, covered with blood.
``A lady goes, in a dream, to visit her husband on a distant steamer, and her husband
really receives this visit, which is seen by a third person.
``A magnetized lady sees and describes the interior of the body of her dying mother; what
she said is confirmed by the autopsy.
``A gentleman sees, in a dream, a lady whom he knows arriving at night in a railroad
station, her journey having been undertaken suddenly.
``A magistrate sees three years in advance the commission of a crime, down to its
smallest details.
``Several persons report that they have seen towns and landscapes before they ever

visited them, and have seen themselves in situations in which they found themselves long
after.
``A mother hears her daughter announce her intended marriage six months before it has
been thought of.
``Frequent cases of death are foretold with precision.
``A theft is seen by a somnambulist, and the execution of the criminal is foretold.
``A young girl sees her fiance', or an intimate friend dying (these are frequent cases), etc.
``All these show unknown faculties in the soul. Such at least is my own impression. It
seems to me that we cannot reasonably attribute the prevision of the future and mental
sight to a nervous action of the brain.
``I think we