oy the Super-sense 



tion) for which it is much harder to find a satis- 

 factory physical explanation. Such is the feeling 

 or warning of unsensed danger, or the premonition 

 that some one unseen and unheard is approaching 

 a phenomenon which seems to be common 

 among animals, to judge from repeated observa- 

 tion, and which appears often enough in human 

 beings to make not only the inquisitive Society 

 for Psychical Research but almost every thought- 

 ful man or woman take some note of it. 



For example, a man awake in his bed sees his 

 son, whom he thinks safely ashore in a foreign 

 country, fall overboard from a steamer to his 

 death, at the very hour when the son did fall over- 

 board, as was afterward learned. Or a woman, 

 the wife of a sea-captain, sitting on the veranda 

 at home in the bright moonlight, sees the familiar 

 earth vanish in a world of water, and looks sud- 

 denly upon her husband's ship as it reels to the 

 gale, turns over to the very edge of destruction, 

 and then rights itself with half its crew swept 

 overboard and all this while the precise event 

 befell a thousand miles away. Such things, which 

 spell a different kind of sensitiveness from that 

 with which we are familiar, have happened to 

 people well known to me; but as they have hap- 

 pened to others also, and as almost every town or 

 village has a convincing example of its own, I 



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