," etc.
In the same way, typtology or rapping, more or less systematic,
seems a fundamental gift, common to all the various kinds of
"mediums." And the fact is perhaps of a certain value that
precisely the same thing is true of "thinking" animals; although we
must always remember that an analogous relation may only be
apparent or extrinsic. Besides, the tone also of the
"communications" in the two fields seems to me very much akin. I
allude to the curious, angular, enigmatic, spasmodic, often playful
and bantering communications, with frequent "unexpected replies"
and philosophic platitudes. I find all these in Lola, and I
remember similar stories of Rolf and of the horses, giving me an
impression very like that which I get from the accounts of
mediumistic seances "with intellectual effects."

Premising all this, we may suppose that a peculiar psychic concordance,
which failing a better term might be called mediumistic, exists between
Lola and her mistress. The mistress then in some way will have
"communicated" through the dog the substance of her psychic self
(perhaps with eventual autonomous additions from the canine or other
psychic entity); all this happening, we must suppose, in a subliminal
way, with partial psychical disassociation on the part of the
authoress, if not also probably on the part of Lola, about which I am
quite certain (and in this I agree with Neumann) that it absolutely
does not understand anything or know anything of almost all the
manifestations of thought which it exhibits.

There remain the questions (if the possibility of such duplicate
mediumistic phenomena is admitted _a priori_ to be possible) as to the
point at which the normal relationship between a human person and an
animal passes over into this supernormal one; and, finally, as to what
particular known facts in the case of Lola, besides the rather too
general analogies already mentioned, speak in favour of this
hypothesis.

Into the mediumistic endowment of the investigator it seems to me
useless to inquire since _a priori_ many persons, so it seems, are more
or less strikingly endowed, and the conditions which determine results
are not sufficiently known. At the most there exist some indications--e.g.
in Morselli's masterly work (2)--of the existence of some concordances
between the phenomenology of mediumism and hysterical, hysteroid, or at
least "sensitive" temperaments. And I