unknown
continually recedes before the progress of man.

Sir Oliver Lodge, LL.D., presented a new phase of the problem of
personality in an address in London, in the following statement of a
speculative belief:--

"To tell the truth, I do not myself hold that the whole of any one
of us is incarnated in these terrestrial bodies; certainly not in
childhood; more, but perhaps not so very much more, in adult life.
What is manifested in this body is, I venture to think likely, only
a portion--an individualized, a definite portion--of a much larger
whole. What the rest of me may be doing, for these few years while
I am here, I do not know, perhaps it is asleep; but probably it is
not so entirely asleep with men of genius; nor, perhaps, is it all
completely inactive with the people called 'mediums.'

"Imagination in science is permissible, provided one's imaginations
are not treated as fact, or even theory, but only as working
hypotheses,--a kind of hypotheses which, properly treated, is
essential to the progress of every scientific man. Let us imagine,
then, as a working hypothesis, that our subliminal self--the other,
the greater part of us--is in touch with another order of
existence, and that it is occasionally able to communicate, or
somehow, perhaps unconsciously, transmit to the fragment in the
body something of the information accessible to it. This guess, if
permissible, would contain a clue to a possible explanation of
clairvoyance. We should then be like icebergs floating in an ocean,
with only a fraction exposed to sun and air and observation: the
rest--by far the greater bulk--submerged and occasionally in
subliminal contact, while still their peaks, their visible peaks,
were far separate."

That which Doctor Lodge expresses in the form of a speculative theory is
by many realized as an actual experience; an absolute consciousness that
over and above and outside of the ordinary intelligent consciousness is
another being more one's self than is his conscious self; with whom he
is in a very varied degree of communion; clearer and more immediate at
times; clouded, confused, even shut off by some dense state at others;
intermittent always, yet often sufficiently clear and impressive to
compel his attention to the phenomena and compel recognition of the
truth. In fact, as one comes into still clea