

creased by every advancing step in natural 

 knowledge. We feel that though new 

 chords should continue to be struck on 

 " the harp of a thousand strings," the 

 " Everlasting Arm " which is the cause 

 of their harmonious vibrations can, itself, 

 never be revealed to us save through thai 

 veil of the sensible in which " we live, 

 move, and have our being." 



Do not, therefore, foolishly tremble 

 under the illusion that all mystery shall 

 be dissipated, or that the veil may be 

 pierced, if we but open wider our dim 

 eyes, or stretch out a little further our 

 feeble hands. Their limits — not deter- 

 mined by us — not written on tables of 

 stone, and soon enough reached— are the 

 truest and best guides. The created 

 mysteries of distorted imagination and 

 the crippled senses are but a poor " mess 

 of pottage " as compared with our 

 glorious birthright of orderly natural 

 knowledge and feeling. 



If still — like wilful children — we v)ill 

 have a deeper mystery, let us, with the 

 fullest possible equipment, attempt to 

 penetrate from every portal of sense ihe 

 CAUSE of which they are themselves 

 wondrous symbols. The effort to do so 

 will convey an impression which cannot be 

 effaced. Thereafter the appalled and 

 humbled mind will gratefully shrink back 

 within its own protecting luminous mist 

 of the higher poetic ideal, and, with the 

 chastened submission of a child-cry — 



" It is enough." " Thy will be done." 



Nor swords of angels could reveal what 

 they conceal. 



Proposed Psychometbr Index Designed 



AS AN AID TO THE BeTTER DETER- 

 MINATION OF THE Comparative Value 

 OF Mental Concepts. 



Table specially prepared with the object 

 of showing approximately the Eelative 

 Value of Observations and Belated 

 Conclusions or Judgments, as Deter- 

 mined by the Nature of the Testimony 

 and other Conditions under which the 

 Original and other Observations have 

 been made :— 



Key to Classification. Order of Value of 

 Testimony. 



Direct. Indirect. 

 (1) (2) (3) (4) 

 (A) Phenomena of the Waking 

 State— 



(a) Mind not diseased and little or not 



affected by the disorders arising out 

 of passion, prejudice, or ignorance. 



* Common Phenomena :— 



Condition a ... 1 2 3 4 



„ h ... 5 6 7 8 



c ... 9 10 11 12 



„ d ... 13 14 15 16 



e ... 17 18 19 20 



/ ... 21 22 23 24 



... 25 — — — 



* "^ Extraordinary Phenomena : — 



Condition a ... 26 27 28 29 



„ h ... 30 31 32 33 



„ c ... 34 35 36 37 



„ d ... 38 39 40 41 



e ... 42 43 44 45 



/ ... 46 47 48 49 



g ... 50 — — — 



(b) Mind not diseased, but more or less 



subject to the disorders arising out 

 of passion, prejudice, or ignorance. 



* Wonderful or Miraculous Phenomena, 



including the Ghost, Vision, or 

 Illusion stage: — 



Condition a ... 51 52 53 54 



„ 1) ... 55 56 57 58 



c ... 59 60 61 62 



„ d ... 63 64 65 66 



„ e ... 67 68 69 70 



/ ... 71 72 73 74 



g ... 75 _ _ _ 



(c) Mind diseased, and subject, more or 



less, to all its disorders. 



Condition : — 



* Hallucination, 



milder form... 76 77 78 79 



* Dementia ... 80 81 82 83 



(B) Phenomena of Sleep — 



(a) Peaceful or pleasur- 



able visions ... 84 85 86 87 



(b) Painful or horrible 



visions 88 89 90 91 



(c) Profound slumber... 92 — — — 



