Transference Of Thought

No neld of investigation se pregnant witü interest lias beun as tiniidJy abandonan to charlatans as the doniaiii of telupat !iy. Until very recent times it lias bciíii alniost eutirely in tbe custody of mountebanks, empirics of the worst type, wbose claims to consideration I rested ou cunning, shrewdness and ]ack i of scruple. If we pause to cousider that the phenomenon of thought transference botli in the waking and sleeping oondition was the initial iuspiration that ] evolved the science of rnetaphysics, wc ! may more uearly appreciate how foolj ishly workers in the higher spheres of thought liave relinqnished the keystone of p.sychology to the most blatant types of quackery. Telepathy meaos the transfereuce of thought, Ieeling8, sensatious, etc., f rom oue persou to another by soxne ineans other than the reeognized sense perceptions of the recipiënt. It is the oommuuication between mind aud mind otherwise than throngh tlie knowu chaunels of the .seriscs. The first notable fact iu conjunction with tbis clasa of cases is that we iiivariably íind a keen, sympatheticbondbetwoen the "agent" and "percipient" that is either the result of blood ties, as in the case of relativesand between husband and wife, or it is cultivated iutercourse, as hetween friends, or is the ontcome of a joint aspiration found among those who seek a common goal. Tbat this thought transference bas taken place betweeii persons in close sympatby with each other is an admitted fact. The following case is selected from the researohes of the Society For Psychical Research, they baving verifled the embodied f acts: "Mrs. Kenon Bruce started from England to America to join her husband in Nebraska. On board snip shortly after it left Queenstown she feil ill and became delirious. She saw her husband lying dead in the middle of a field, and her agouy was excessive. On arriving in New York she received a telegram stating that Mr. Bruce was thrown from a horse and had broken his neck, and this occurred at the very hour when she, thousands of milos away on board sbip, Baid she saw him lying dead in the field, as, in fact, he was at the time." In this case the elements of collusion and muscle reading are certainly