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by one, may strike deep root in the case of some other person. Again 

 correlative suggestion may be much in evidence in some cases. 



The so-called telepathic suggestions or communications have to be 

 separated from all possibilities with coincidence, illusion, and halluci- 

 nation, if the results are to be worth considering. Many things in 

 physical operations seem to show that a strain in the ether is easily 

 produced by physical agents, and the extension of the theory or fact 

 to biological units seems natural, and, indeed, plausible. It is clear, 

 however, that once out of the field of exact science, and over the 

 fence into the domain of biological activities, one comes face to face 

 with problems that can be viewed only a little beyond the surface, 

 and we look for the effects of the actions of unknown living units, or 

 other ill-understood living units, to give us a hint with reference to 

 the method of evolving acts, the transmission of these, and the cause 

 of some being received by a second organism, and others discarded. 



It seems evident that some people are claimed by those in favour 

 of transmission of thought as being very sensitive, by which is meant 

 that they are tuned up to the receptive condition. Many claim this 

 sensitivity also for themselves. There are, however, many examples 

 of error. It seems to be true from some lists inspected that a large 

 number of people may furnish records of neuroses. It is possible that 

 the psychological views held by many experts in insanity are worthy 

 of consideration, viz., that many of the acts in the life of an individual 

 may be, strictly speaking, insane acts, and many thoughts evolved by 

 the brain or mind of some may be hallucinations, but it is scarcely 

 possible to measure a man or woman by any rule outside their own 

 usual activities. To act otherwise would prove not only inconvenient, 

 but a common source of error. The lives and actions of large popu- 

 lations are condemned by other large populations, who have been 

 building on strong foundations, but the superstructure of one is 

 regarded perhaps as fantastic by another. One must get suitable 

 people to furnish us with examples, but people object to be placed 

 under surveillance, and so many a brave investigator becomes timid. 



One thing is certain that the persons who give evidence in these 

 questions are apt to be considered neurotic if they display a sensitive. 



