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dreamer, but I have never had any striking warning communi- 
cated to me. I have carefully noted on waking certain dreams 
and watched for the results. I can very often associate my 
dream with some event that has preceded it—which coincides 
with the experience of Herodotus, who lived more than two 
thousand years ago,—the details being much altered. I have 
also noticed in case of many strange dreams of others that the 
dream has been remembered after the event has happened. I do 
not wish it to be understood that others may not possess what is 
lacking to me, but I have noted how many of these remarkable 
communications have been of trivial moment. 
Telepathy is the feeling or experiencing of sensations at a 
distance from another person. It occurs, it appears, when the 
mind of one human being affects the mind of another, but not 
through one of the recognized organs of sense. I have read and 
heard of many wonderful examples of this kind, but as I have 
never experienced such I will not pronounce an opinion on 
telepathic communications. 
When we glance around us at the marvellous progress in 
communication of thought, how that distance has been annihi- 
lated by the speed of the transmission, we may well ask ourselves 
what has been the influence upon mankind? Has it increased 
our happiness? What are the benefits and what the dis- 
advantages? Restlessness—the yearning for something fresh — 
inability to concentrate thought upon a subject. Decadence in 
all branches of Art, because there is no time to cultivate taste. 
Scholars are displaced by half-educated men who can and will 
produce the article in demand—a something that will not tax 
the intellectual powers. Learning and literature become but 
pastimes for those of means. Thoughts expressed in books and 
in colour become a drug in the market. What is the proportion 
of light literature compared with real standard works issued 
from our lending library? In spite of the re-publication of 
so many volumes of classics at a shilling by various firms, I fear 
that the number who read them is but small. What we desire 
to see is that the original thinker shall receive the reward to 
which he is so justly entitled. Increased facilities bring increased 
indifference ; indifference begets thoughtlessness ; and thought- 
lessness, idleness ; which too often marks mankind. 
With regard to the reception and transmission of thought 
it is not difficult to come to a conclusion—that man being 
“inquisitive,” his desire to receive is greater than to transmit. 
A thoughtful man will always command a large following,— 
probably not during his life, perhaps centuries even may elapse 
before justice is done to him; but posterity will recognise him 
though it be tardy. The explanation is simple—the majority 
do not think; they are quite content to let others think for 
them. 
