III. 



SCIENCE AND MORALS. 

 [1886.] 



IN spite of long and, perhaps, not unjustifiable 

 hesitation, I begin to think that there must be 

 something in telepathy. For evidence, which I 

 may not disregard, is furnished by the last number 

 of the " Fortnightly Review " that among the 

 hitherto undiscovered endowments of the human 

 species, there may be a power even more wonder- 

 ful than the mystic faculty by which the esoteric- 

 ally Buddhistic sage " upon the farthest mountain 

 in Cathay " reads the inmost thoughts of a dweller 

 within the homely circuit of the London postal 

 district. Great indeed is the insight of such a 

 seer; but how much greater is his who combines 

 the feat of reading, not merely the thoughts of 

 which the thinker is aware, but those of which 

 he knows nothing; who sees him unconsciously 

 drawing the conclusions which he repudiates, and 

 supporting the doctrines which he detests. To re- 

 flect upon the confusion which the working of 



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