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thought out, definite, sane, intelligible a message 

 from a subject in pain or trouble or agony which 

 hits its distant mark and is visualised as an appari- 

 tion or phantasm by the human percipient, and is 

 heard as an acute cry of distress, a summons for help, 

 by the animal. What can we say of it except that it 

 is inexplicable; or that it is a striking example of 

 that vaguely conscious something, force or principle, 

 in nature, which we sometimes roughly name " uncon- 

 scious intelligence," a diffused mind in or behind 

 nature which gives a sort of supernatural disguise 

 to phenomena ? 



But that indefinable something in or behind nature, 

 that formative principle, ever blindly feeling and 

 struggling on towards a definite goal, which the 

 mechanicians interpret in one way and the Doctor 

 Henry Mores of the past and the Flammarions 

 of the present in another, is in everything in all 

 organisms, animal and vegetable, in every cell. And 

 as to telepathy, the plain common-sense view of the 

 matter is that the Flammarions had better drop it 

 as an additional proof of the existence of a soul, or 

 else overcome all opposition to the idea of sharing 

 their heaven with the lower animals. 



