170 LOLA 



There remain the questions (if the possibility of such 

 duplicate mediumistic phenomena is admitted a priori 

 to be possible) as to the point at which the normal 

 relationship between a human person and an animal 

 passes over into this supernormal one ; and, finally, 

 as to what particular known facts in the case of Lola, 

 besides the rather too general analogies already 

 mentioned, speak in favour of this hypothesis. 



Into the mediumistic endowment of the investigator 

 it seems to me useless to inquire since a priori many 

 persons, so it seems, are more or less strikingly endowed, 

 and the conditions which determine results are not 

 sufficiently known. At the most there exist some 

 indications e.g. in Morselli's masterly work (2) 

 of the existence of some concordances between the 

 phenomenology of mediumism and hysterical, hyste- 

 roid, or at least " sensitive " temperaments. And I 

 believe that with the help of their own publications, 

 properly analysed it would not be too difficult to 

 attribute one or the other of such physio-psychic 

 varieties to those persons who have up to the present 

 obtained the best results with " thinking animals." 



More interesting appears to me the investigation of 

 the question whether animals themselves have already 

 given any clear proof of being able to be " sensitive " 

 in the mediumistic sense. And I must say that such 

 a proof seems to have almost been reached. 



I may refer on this subject to the exhaustive monograph 

 published in 1905 by Bozzano (i) and written with the 

 special competency and clearness that distinguish the well- 

 known Genoese psychist. 



Bozzano at that time was necessarily ignorant of the 

 " thinking " animals, for it was only afterwards that they 

 came to notice. But there were other authors who intro- 

 duced the possibility (or the necessity) of a supernormal 



