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action at a distance is caused, and visible motions and audible 
sounds are produced in solid substances. As the presence 
of such an organisation is necessary to the phenomenon, it 
is reasonably concluded that the Force does, in some manner 
as yet unknown, proceed from that organisation. As the 
organism is itself moved and directed within its structure by 
a Force which either is, or is controlled by, the Soul, 
Spirit, or Mind (call it what we may) which constitutes the 
individual being we term ‘the Man,’ it is anequally reason- 
able conclusion that the Force which causes the motions 
beyond the limits of the body is the same Force that pro- 
duces motion within the limits of the body. And, inasmuch 
as the external force is seen to be often dire¢ted by Intelli- 
gence, it is an equally reasonable conclusion that the directing 
Intelligence of the external force is the same Intelligence 
that directs the Force internally. This is the force to which 
the name of Psychic Force has been given by me as 
properly designating a force which I thus contend to be 
traced back to the Soul or Mind of the Man as its source. 
But I, and all who adopt this theory of Psychic Force as 
being the agent through which the phenomena are produced, 
do not thereby intend to assert that this Psychic Force may 
not be sometimes seized and directed by some other Intelli- 
gence than the Mind of the Psychic. The most ardent 
Spiritualists practically admit the existence of Psychic Force 
under the very inappropriate name of Magnetism (to which 
it has no affinity whatever), for they assert that the Spirits 
of the Dead can only do the acts attributed to them by using 
the Magnetism (that is, the Psychic Force) of the Medium. 
The difference between the advocates of Psychic Force 
and the Spiritualists consists in this—that we contend 
that there is as yet insufficient proof of any other directing 
agent than the Intelligence of the Medium, and no proof 
whatever of the agency of Spirits of the Dead; while the 
Spiritualists hold it as a faith, not demanding further proof, 
that Spirits of the Dead are the sole agents in the production 
of allthe phenomena. ‘Thus the controversy resolves itself 
into a pure question of fact, only to be determined by a 
laborious and long-continued series of experiments and an 
extensive collection of psychological facts, which should be 
the first duty of the Psychological Society, the formation of 
which is now in progress.” 
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