oss confused animal
functions in its heavier companion.

Mr. Funk, who is a critical student of psychic phenomena, and also the
joint compiler of the standard American dictionary, narrates a story in
point which could be matched from other sources. He tells of an
American doctor of his acquaintance, and he vouches personally for the
truth of the incident. This doctor, in the course of a cataleptic
seizure in Florida, was aware that he had left his body, which he saw
lying beside him. He had none the less preserved his figure and his
identity. The thought of some friend at a distance came into his mind,
and after an appreciable interval he found himself in that friend's
room, half way across the continent. He saw his friend, and was
conscious that his friend saw him. He afterwards returned to his own
room, stood beside his own senseless body, argued within himself
whether he should re-occupy it or not, and finally, duty overcoming
inclination, he merged his two frames together and continued his life.
A letter from him to his friend explaining matters crossed a letter
from the friend, in which he told how he also had been aware of his
presence. The incident is narrated in detail in Mr. Funk's "Psychic
Riddle."

I do not understand how any man can examine the many instances coming
from various angles of approach without recognising that there really
is a second body of this sort, which incidentally goes far to account
for all stories, sacred or profane, of ghosts, apparitions and visions.
Now, what is this second body, and how does it fit into modern
religious revelation?

What it is, is a difficult question, and yet when science and
imagination unite, as Tyndall said they should unite, to throw a
searchlight into the unknown, they may produce a beam sufficient to
outline vaguely what will become clearer with the future advance of our
race. Science has demonstrated that while ether pervades everything
the ether which is actually in a body is different from the ether
outside it. "Bound" ether is the name given to this, which Fresnel and
others have shown to be denser. Now, if this fact be applied to the
human body, the result would be that, if all that is visible of that
body were removed, there would still remain a complete and absolute
mould of the body, formed in bound ether which would be different from
the ether around it. This argument is more solid than mere
speculation, and it shows that even the soul