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wonderfully delicate feelers of the male mosquito, in all probability, 

 pulsates in response to the piping sounds which the female is known to 

 produce, and doubtless through considerable distance. 



There is every justification for believing that all the subtle cosmic 

 forces involved in the generation and development of the highest are 

 equally involved in the production and building up of the lowest of 

 organisms, and that the complexing and compounding and specializa- 

 tion of i)arts have gone on in every possible and conceivable direction, 

 according to the species. The highly developed and delicate antennae 

 in the male Chironomus, for instance, may be likened to an external 

 brain, its ramifying fibers corresponding to the highly complicated 



Fig. 14.— Some Antenna of Insects: a, Telea polyphemus, male, X 3; 6 and c, tip of rays of 

 same — still more enlarged ; d, Chironomus X 6; e, section of same— still more enlarged (original.) 



processes that ramify from the nerve cells in the internal brains of 

 higher animals, and responding in a somewhat similar way to external 

 impressions. While having no sort of sympathy with the foolish 

 notions that the spiritists proclaim, to edify or terrify the gullible 

 and unscientific, 1 am just as much out of sympathy with that class of 

 materialistic scientists who refuse to recognize that there may be and 

 are subtle psychical phenomena beyond the reach of present experi- 

 mental methods. The one class too readily assumes supernatural power 

 to explain abnormal phe"nomena ; the other denies the abnormal, because 

 it, likewise, is past our limited understanding. " Even now," says 

 William Crookes, who speaks with authority, "telegraphing without 

 wires is possible within a radius of a few hundred yards," and, in a 



