BY WALTER SPENCEE, M.D., M.R.C.S., ETC. 71 



Amongst instances where revelations received through his 

 mirrors were confirmed by subsequent independent evidence is 

 that which has been frequently quoted in spiritualistic litera- 

 ture of the minute description of a startling incident which 

 occurred to the late Sir Eichard Burton during his journey, in 

 disguise, to Mecca, at a time when the world had given him up 

 for lost. This vision, recorded in Hockley's diary simultaneously 

 with the event, was verified and attested by Burton on his 

 return. In the same diary stand recorded the ruin of the 

 Tuileries and the attendant conflagrations in Paris years before 

 the events of the Commune. 



Amongst the array of extraordinary pretensions which the 

 close of this century is reviewing we may detect much fraud, 

 much collusion, imagination, and credulity, yet if anyone will 

 devote three years, as I did, to their patient investigation, I say 

 that he will be unable to deny the presence of some facts whose 

 nature and relations to explained facts he will be unable to ' ex- 

 plain. And this is the attitude of the scientific world towards 

 hypnotism. 



