indicated that, and it was
only my alertness to the possibility of deception in this direction,
which prevented my testifying to the same effect." (See my _Personal
Experiences in Spiritualism_, pp. 31-32.)

[36] _Annals of Psychical Science_, April 1908, pp. 181-91.

[37] _Ibid._, April-June 1909, pp. 285-305.

[38] Flammarion: _Mysterious Psychic Forces_; Morselli: _Psicologia e
Spiritismo_; De Fontenay: _A Propos d'Eusapia Paladino_; De Rochas:
_L'Exteriorization de la Motricite_, etc.

[39] Why were Sir William Crookes' experiments with the spring balance
not discussed, by the way, in this connection? Here we have indubitable
proof of the objectivity of the phenomena; even Mr. Podmore being driven
to grant this, and suppose that the manifestations were the result of
some trick.--_Modern Spiritualism_, vol. ii. p. 242.

CHAPTER VIII

THE PROBLEMS OF TELEPATHY

"I suppose everybody would say it would be an extraordinary
circumstance," said the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., F.R.S., in
his Presidential Address before the Society for Psychical Research,
some years ago, "if at no distant date this earth on which we dwell
were to come into collision with some unknown body travelling
through space, and, as the result of that collision, be resolved
into the original gases of which it is composed.... This is a
specimen of a dramatically extraordinary event. Now I will give you
a case of what I mean by a scientifically extraordinary
event--which you will at once perceive may be one which, at first
sight and to many observers, may appear almost commonplace and
familiar. I have constantly met people who will tell you, with no
apparent consciousness that they are saying anything more out of
the way than an observation about the weather, that by the exercise
of their will they can make anybody at a little distance turn round
and look at them. Now such a fact (if fact it be) is far more
scientifically extraordinary than would be the destruction of this
globe by some such celestial catastrophe as I have imagined. How
profoundly mistaken, then, are they who think that this exercise of
'will power,' as they call it, is the most natural and the most
normal thing in the world, something which everybody should have
expected, something which hardly deserves scientific notice or
requires scientific explanati