154 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



sion and refreshment, as self-suggestion or soothing 

 contemplation and encouraging reflection, but as a 

 process of communication between one Spirit and an- 

 other in some super-physical fashion. And a supple- 

 mentary deduction would be the human mind's rela- 

 tive independence of the bodily organization, and 

 hence support for the view that Mind in general is 

 not closely tied to, or strictly limited in Its operations 

 by, any physical conditions. 



Thirdly, I go still further In this highly disputed 

 and disputable, not to say disreputable, direction. I 

 hold that the labours of the English Society for Psy- 

 chical Research, sustained for fifty years In heroic 

 fashion, have brought together a mass of evidence 

 which, when Impartially considered (as it so seldom 

 Is), confronts us with the following dilemma: either 

 "telepathy" operates In a most far-ranging manner, 

 emanating from or exploring and tapping the most 

 secret recesses of what we call the memory of this and 

 that man, regardless of space and time, or something 

 of human personality may, and in some cases does, 

 survive the death of the body. Either alternative, but 

 more especially the latter, would imply that superiority 

 of Mind or Spirit to all physical conditions, which is 

 a fundamental assumption of Theism. 



Fourthly and fifthly, returning to less controversial 

 ground, I find two peculiar capacities of the human 

 being that seem to defy all attempt to regard them as 

 naturally engendered, as having been produced by 

 those evolutionary processes that do seem (more or 

 less) capable of having engendered all other human 



