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thought out, definite, sane, intelHgible — a message 

 from a subject in pain or trouble or agony which 

 hits its distant mark and is visuaHsed 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. 



