A. T. SCHOFIELD, M.D.^ ON SCIENCE AND THE UNSEEN WORLD. 5l 



We conclude, therefore, that the knowledge of the truths of 

 revelation is as experimental, as sure, as personal as any truths 

 known to science : but that the sphere of the former only 

 begins where that of the latter ends. 



I now tarn to a Drief consideration of certain phenomei'ia 

 that occupy a sort of doubtful territory between the ascertained 

 facts of science on the one hand, and the truths of revelation 

 on the other. 



Amongst these one might mention : (1) the mental or nerve 

 forces and aura : (2) hypnotism ; (3) faith-healing of all sorts, 

 including Christian mental, and higher health sciences ; 

 (4) possession ; (5) miracles of all sorts ; (6) telepathy ; 

 (7) automatic writing ; (8) appearances after death, and 

 spiritualistic phenomeiia ; (9) second sight and clairvoyance ; 

 and (10) double and multiple personality. 



It is obvious that with such a range of phenomena of the 

 unseen world, any one of which for its adequate discussion 

 would require the limit of a paper, I can but allow myself a 

 very brief reference to each. 



1. 3Ientcd or nerve forces and aura. — I need not say very 

 much on this, as a paper of mine appeared recently on the 

 subject in the Contcmiiorary Revieiv (May, 1907) whicli may be 

 familiar to many. In it I showed that while we are as ignorant 

 as ever as to the constitution of mind or nerve force, and know 

 no more of its composition than we do of ether or of matter, 

 we can nevertheless examine it in various ways. Elaborate 

 reflectino; galvanometers have been devised for registerino- the 

 speed of thought, the succession of thoughts and the mechanism 

 of thought. Dr. Dubois, of Berne, has invented a machine to 

 measure nerve fatigue (ergograph), and the simple sthenometer 

 I here produce is Dr. Paul Joires' of Paris. Its action is based 

 upon the fact that around each person seems to project for a few 

 inches, some nerve force or influence often readily transferable 

 by contact. 



It is this force presumably which, as I have described in the 

 Contemiwrary, so remarkably deflects the needle in the way I 

 shall brietly describe. 



This instrument (fully described in the Review) consists 

 essentially of a balanced straw within a glass case rotating 

 over a circle of 360 degrees. This straw can be defected 

 and moved over 60 or 70 degrees by some force emanating 

 from the human body that is not heat, electricity, light or 

 sound. 



