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intelligence, we have nothing in the shape of evidence.9 
Wherefore it may seem idle to propound a question to which 
no answer can be forthcoming. Howbeit, man’s curiosity 
is insatiable; a systematic and resolute attempt has been 
undertaken to fathom the abyss of supersensory phenomena. 
The late Mr Frederick Myers applied a disciplined intellect 
to the collation and analysis of hyperphysical experience. 
He was no dreamy enthusiast, subordinating his critical 
faculties to prepossession or emotional preconception; he was 
an advanced and erudite evolutionist, versed in the limita- 
tions of scientific inquiry, and applying its method to the 
elucidation of matters which most men of science dismiss 
either as illusory or outside and beyond the range of re- 
search. Few have been found so daring as to follow Mr 
Myers over the threshold of his laboratory, or even to grasp 
the reality of the enigma to which he addressed himself— 
not venturing to hope for a solution, only to detect a path 
which might lead to one; nevertheless, none who is con- 
scious, however dimly, of the presence of a psychical pro- 
blem, or who has speculated, however inconsequently, upon 
the phenomena of sympathy, suggestion, will, trance, and 
automatism, can fail to perceive in Mr Myers’s posthumous 
volumes! the direction in which advance must be made, if 
the road is not inexorably barred to human penetration. 
The inquiry is concentrated upon the spiritual part of 
the human animal. ‘‘ Human personality, as it has de- 
veloped from lowly ancestors, has become differentiated into 
two phases: one of them mainly adapted to material or 
planetary; the other to spiritual or cosmic operation;’’ and 
he proceeds upon the assumption that the first is the “ self,’’ 
of which every human being, from the West Australian 
savage to the veriest mondaine, is conscious; and that the 
second is a subliminal self, withdrawn from normal con- 
sciousness, below or behind the natural man or woman, 
distinct from the workaday intellect, and beyond the control 
9 Doctrine—plenty of it; dogma—enough and to spare; but of 
evidence in the strict sense, not a jot. 
10 Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (2 vols.). 
