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and harmony and mutual understanding from the East to 

 the West. 



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Professor Miinsterberg for instance has indicated his 

 feeling that although he is open to conviction about the 

 reality of telepathy if he be forced to it by absolute demon- 

 stration, yet the fact would be so novel, the revolution so 

 great, and the disarrangement of organised knowledge so 

 profound, that almost any other hypothesis seems to 

 him preferable and more likely. I admit that telepathy 

 when universally accepted will constitute an important 

 enlargement of human knowledge, as well as an addition to 

 recognised human powers, but I cannot see that it is psy- 

 chologically and scientifically so revolutionary as it evi- 

 dently appears to the eminent philosopher of Harvard. 

 I trust that as opportunity offers he will pursue his studies 

 in this domain and will ultimately be convinced by facts. 



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It appears to me very probable that telepathy or thought 

 transference is a form of direct communication between 

 mind and mind, apart from the usual physical or material 

 concomitants. If so, it is a vitally important discovery, 

 and should be confirmed by each one for himself through 

 careful experiment and observation, whenever opportunity 

 occurs; so that gradually it may be recognised as an 

 assured fact, not only by the few who have as yet taken the 

 trouble to study it, but by all. 



Communication with discarnate minds is a further step 

 and needs separate and most critical proof, but if any such 

 communication ever occurs it would seem to be rendered 

 possible by the exercise of telepathic power. Such com- 

 munication does not anyhow appear easy, but it is prob- 

 ably by some method akin to telepathy that it can 



