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geniuses — that these and many others will be the practical results of the 

 psychological research now being conducted throughout the world is the asser- 

 tion of Floyd Wilson, a psychologist and occultist of New York. Mr. Wil- 

 son, who is the author of several important works on psychology and a 

 member of both the New York and London Societies for Psychological Re- 

 search, believes that the psychic age is at hand and that it is only a question of 

 a few years until practical results will be demonstrated. 



"The time is not far distant," says Mr. Wilson, "when telegrams, tele- 

 phones and letters will be a thing of the past. Mental telepathy will take 

 their place. At the present time a comparatively few people are able to 

 transmit their thoughts to each other in this manner, but it is within the 

 possibilities of every one. When we know more about it, as we assuredly 

 shall, it will not be necessary to transmit our thoughts by physical means. 

 Mental telepathy will supplant all forms of present communication. 



"And when you stop to consider it, mental telepathy is no more wonderful 

 than wireless telegraphy or wireless telephony. The principle is practically 

 the same — space is annihilated and without physical connection. 



"That our health will be better and our lease on life longer in the years 

 to come goes without saying. Poor health, to a great extent, is due to a con- 

 dition of mind. By thinking health people will keep in good health, and by 

 determining to remain young, or at least by determining to keep from getting 

 old, old age may be staved off many years. Of course, people will get sick 

 and die, just as they do to-day, but illness will be less prevalent and death 

 will be postponed longer." 



Dr. Lee F. De Forrest, in the current number of The Scrap Book, writes : 

 "It is now possible to say we will soon be able to talk across the ocean, and 

 over still greater distances. In fact, I think I can predict, without too great a 

 strain on the imagination, that in the future, and not so far off, we will be 

 able to talk around the world — in relays, perhaps, but so arranged as to be 

 almost instantaneous. It is as sure as arithmetic that within the next few 

 years every vessel of a few hundred tons will carry the wireless telephone. 

 From recent experiments, I feel certain that within a short time we shall be 

 able to be in wireless communication between our station, atop the Metro- 

 politan Tower In New York and the Eiffel Tower in Paris." 



