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as evidence of personal survival which appears to be their 

 object. If the events referred to were historical, or even domesti- 

 cally important, they would be recorded in papers of some kind, 

 and clairvoyant reading of the record could be appealed to as an 

 alternative explanation, even if a much more commonplace 

 suspicion were not entertained. To complain of triviality in the 

 events selected as evidence for continued personal existence and 

 memory, is stupid, or at least thoughtless. For if, when studied, 

 the best messages are found to constitute links in the chain of 

 evidence demonstrating continued existence or human survival 

 beyond the adventure of bodily death; if they show that we are 

 not alone in an alien universe for some seventy odd years, and are 

 then extinguished as if we had not been, but that an immortal 

 future an infinite destiny lies before each one of us; if they 

 tend to prove that the loves and powers and hopes and aspirations 

 of earth persist, that our acts for better for worse are laid to our 

 charge, and that without any sudden change our character goes 

 on developing; if any weak and halting utterances are able to 

 convey such knowledge as this, no one has the right to stigmatise 

 them as common or unclean. 



OLIVER LODGE. 



SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Books on the subject are innumerable. The following is a selection: 

 MYERS, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. (The most 



comprehensive work on the subject.) 

 LODGE, Survival of Man. (A more popular survey, from personal experience, 



with special treatment of telepathy and trance phenomena.) 

 BARRETT, Psychical Research (Home Univ. Library). (He has also written 



on Water Divining and other supernormal faculties.) 

 HILL, J. A., Psychical Investigations. (Mostly about non-trance clairvoyance 



evidential of survival.) 

 HILL, Spiritualism, its History, Phenomena, and Doctrine. (Gives accounts 



of the work of the older mediums.) 

 HOLMES, J. H., Is Death the End? 



