WHAT IS INSTINCT? 



CHAPTER I 



TELEPATHY 



In these days, when all things seem possible, 

 it may be that telepathy, now recognized by 

 science, will be turned to practical account 

 by some mechanical means. Already we 

 have that inestimable boon to humanity, 

 the Marconi wireless system, which is no less 

 than a material apparatus tuned to transmit 

 and receive the intangible through space. 



Our present knowledge of telepathy is 

 slight and of no practical use, for the faculty 

 can rarely be commanded at will, and seems 

 to occur only among those abnormally sus- 

 ceptible to subconscious impressions. 



Amongst a given number of persons 

 there is always a proportion of those who, 

 in some form or another, are more or 

 less sensitive to subconscious influences. In 

 most cases their powers have not been 

 developed, and in many are unsuspected by 

 the persons possessing them. 



