SCIENCE AND THE "SPIRITS'' 469 



©nee tested. I said immediately to X. : *'If you wisli to wia 

 to your cause an apostle, who will proclaim your principles to 

 tlie world from the housetop, tell me what I am now think- 

 ing of.'* X. reddened, and did not tell me my thought. 



Some time previously I had visited Baron Eeichenbach, 

 in Vienna, and I now asked the young lady who sat beside 

 me whether she could see any of the curious things which 

 he describes — the light emitted by crystals, for example? 

 Here is the conversation which followed, as extracted from 

 my notes, written on the day following the stance. 



Medium, — *'0h, yes; but I see light around all bodies.'* 



/. — *'Even in perfect darkness?'* 



Medium, — ** Yes; I see luminous atmospheres round all 

 people. The atmosphere which surrounds Mr. R. C. would 

 fill this room with light." 



/. — **You are aware of the effects ascribed by Baron 

 Reichenbach to magnets?" 



Medium, — *' Yes; but a magnet makes me terribly ill.*' 



/. — "Am I to understand that, if this room were per* 

 fectly dark, you could tell whether it contained a magnet, 

 without being informed of the fact?" 



Medium. — "I should know of its presence on entering 

 the room. " 



J.— **How?** 



Medium. — *'I should be rendered instantly ill.*' 



I. — '*How do you feel to-day?" 



Medium, — *' Particularly well; I have not been so well 

 for months.*' 



T, — *'Then, may I ask you whether there is, at the 

 present moment, a magnet in my possession?" 



The young lady looked at me, blushed, and stammered, 

 *'No; 1 am not en rap'port with you." 



