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wonderfully delicate feelers of the male mosquito, in all probability, 
pulsates in response to the piping sounds which the female is kuown to 
produce, and doubtless through considerable distance. 
There is every justification for believing that all the. subtle cosmic 
forces involved in the generation and development of the highest are 
equally involved in the production and building up of the lowest of 
organisms, and that the complexing and compounding and specializa- 
tion of parts have gone on in every possible and conceivable direction, 
according to the species. The highly developed and delicate antennae 
in the male Chironomus, for instance, may be likened to an external 
brain, its ramifying fibers corresponding to the highly complicated 
Fig. 14.— Some Antenna of Insects: a, Telea polyphenius, male, X 3; b and c, tip of rays of 
same — still more enlarged ; d, Chironomus X 6; e, section of same — still more enlarged (original.) 
processes that ramify from the nerve cells in the internal brains of 
higher animals, and responding in a somewhat similar way to external 
impressions. While having no sort of sympathy with the foolish 
notions that the spiritists proclaim, to edify or terrify the gullible 
and unscientific, 1 am just as much out of sympathy with that class of 
materialistic scientists who refuse to recognize that there may be and 
are subtle psychical phenomena beyond the reach of present experi- 
mental methods. The one class too readily assumes supernatural power 
to explain abnormal phenomena ; the other denies the abnormal, because 
it, likewise, is past our limited understanding. "Even now," says 
William Orookes, who speaks with authority, ' 4 telegraphing without 
wires is possible within a radius of a few hundred yards," and, in a 
