race has
always had a lively reminder of the existence of such phenomena; and the
records of the race have always contained many instances of the
manifestation thereof. Among all peoples, in all lands, in all times,
there have been noted remarkable instances of the power of certain persons
to peer into, and correctly report from, the mysterious regions of the
future. Passing from the traditional reports of the race, and the minor
instances known to almost every person, we find that the scientific
investigators of psychic phenomena have gathered together an enormous
array of well authenticated cases of this class. The reports of the
Society for Psychical research contain hundreds of such cases, which the
student may read and study with interest and profit.

It is not my intention to present a full history of the reports of this
character. Rather, I shall call your attention to a few striking cases, in
order to illustrate the phenomenon clearly and forcibly. There is such a
wealth of material of this kind that it embarrases one who wishes to
select from it. However, I shall do the best I can in that direction.
Following, to commence with, I give you extracts from a well known case
reported by a prominent member of the Theosophical Society, which has
attracted much attention. It was related to this person by one of the
actors in the scene. It happened in India. A party of English army
officers was entering a dense jungle. Then follows the story, as below:

"We plunged into the jungle, and had walked on for about an hour without
much success, when Cameron, who happened to be next to me, stopped
suddenly, turned pale as death, and, pointing straight before him, cried
in accents of horror: 'See! see! merciful heavens, look there!' 'Where?
what? what is it?' we all shouted confusedly, as we rushed up to him, and
looked around in expectation of encountering a tiger--a cobra--we hardly
knew what, but assuredly something terrible, since it had been sufficient
to cause such evident emotion in our usually self-contained comrade. But
neither tiger nor cobra was visible--nothing but Cameron pointing with
ghastly haggard face and starting eyeballs at something we could not see.

"'Cameron! Cameron!' cried I, seizing his arm, 'for heavens sake speak!
What is the matter?' Scarcely were the words out of my mouth when a low
but very peculiar sound struck upon my ear, and Cameron, dropping his
pointing hand, said in a hoarse, strained voi