ANIMAL TELEPATHY 55 



We know now that telepathy or thought-transfer- 

 ence in the extreme and violent form in which it 

 has been so far discussed here is not an exclusively 

 human faculty, but is common to man and the lower 

 animals to some of the higher vertebrates, so far 

 as we know at present. Up till now the authentic 

 cases on record which concern the animal relate 

 to telepathy between the man and the animal, but 

 I now have a perfectly authentic case of telepathy 

 of this kind between animal and animal. In this one 

 case I have before me I see that there is this difference 

 between the animal and man, in that the brain-wave 

 or vibration in the former does not appear to the 

 percipient as a phantasm, but translates itself into 

 sound, to an agonising cry for help which meets 

 with an instant response. 



From this solitary instance we may form a guess 

 as to what telepathy may be, its function and import- 

 ance, in wild animal life; and if we, even in the 

 artificial conditions we exist in (and have existed in 

 for thousands of years), the inevitable effect of which 

 is to wither and kill the faculties suitable to a purely 

 natural life if we still have remains or vestiges or 

 intimations of these lost faculties in us, is it not 

 probable that the large-brained men of the far past 

 who lived with nature had them too, in a larger 

 measure and perhaps another way; that they de- 

 veloped and flourished in forms and a lustre un- 

 imaginable to us, apart from nature, in our warm 

 clothing, in the close shelter of our houses? 



How was it possible, one may ask, that a race of 



