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to myself and my co-workers I must 

 risk annoying my present hearers, not 

 only by leaving on record our conviction 

 that occurrences now regarded as occult 

 can be examined and reduced to order by 

 the methods of science carefully and per- 

 sistently applied, but by going further 

 and saying, with the utmost brevity, that 

 already the facts so examined have con- 

 vinced me that memory and affection are 

 not limited to that association with mat- 

 ter by which alone they can manifest 

 themselves here and now, and that per- 

 sonality persists beyond bodily death. 

 The evidence nothing new or sensa- 

 tional, but cumulative and demanding 

 prolonged serious study to my mind 

 goes to prove that discarnate intelligence, 

 under certain conditions, may interact 

 with us on the material side, thus indi- 

 rectly coming within our scientific ken; 

 and that gradually we may hope to attain 

 some understanding of the nature of a 

 larger, perhaps etherial, existence, and 

 of the conditions regulating intercourse 

 across the chasm. A body of responsible 



