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death ' would seem to show- we may, perhaps, seem 

 to see how it is that apparitions at the hour of death 

 are far more numerous and clear than any other ghost 

 stories. 



" Such oblique methods of communicating between 

 brain and brain (if such there be) would probably but 

 rarely take effect. The influences would be too 

 minute and subtle to tell upon any brain already 

 pre-occupied by action of its own, or on any but brains 

 of extreme, perhaps morbid, susceptibility. But if, 

 indeed, there be radiating from living brains any such 

 streams of vibratory movements (as, surely, there 

 must be), these may well have an effect even without 

 speech, and be, perhaps, the modus operandi of ' the 

 little flash, the mystic hint' of the poet of that 

 dark and strange sphere of half- experiences which 

 the world has never been without. . . . 



<f JSTo doubt atomic movements, causing waves in 

 space, must start from other parts of the body as well 

 as from the brain. . . .But the question here is 

 simply limited to how braiiw are affected by the 

 movements of other brains; just as the question of 

 how one pendulum will make other pendulums swing 

 with it is a fair mechanical inquiry by itself, though 

 doubtless other questions would remain as to how the 

 movement of the pendulum would affect all other 

 material bodies, as well as pendulums, in the same 

 room with it." 



Of course, the difficulty in this, as in all other 

 attempts at explaining these occasional and extraordi- 



