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such a report would be of no use be- 

 cause it would deal with ideas and con- 

 ceptions entirely' incomprehensible to 

 us. The explanation of this is that man 

 is unable to comi^rehend things and 

 phenomena which have not acted upon 

 his present organs. If we take pains 

 to analyze our boldest and most un- 

 realistic fancies, we will find that their 

 substance and ingredients are only 

 greatly enlarged or reduced images of 

 an already experienced reality. We 

 have never possessed that man's higher 

 senses, never experienced the things 

 which those higher faculties are able 

 to grasp, and we are therefore not in a 

 position to form any idea whatever 

 about such a world, llis speech would 

 sound like a foreign language that we 

 could not possibly ever learn to under- 

 stand. 



Only in case the person in question 

 could adapt himself to our present way 

 of thinking and understanding, would 

 such a revelation be of any importance. 

 But then again the question arises, 



