58 A. T. SCHOPIELD, M.D.^ ON SCIENCE AND THE UNSEEN WORLD. 



appearances after death I have what I might call almost first- 

 hand knowledge. 



My brother died unexpectedly in Inland China, and the same 

 night appeared to his wife's two sisters, who had not heard of 

 his illness, in different parts of India. They thought their 

 sister was ill, and never thought of him, and it was not till 

 months after that news came to them via England that he died 

 the night he appeared. Both were wives of Army medical men. 



9. Second sight and clairvoyance. — There can be no doubt that 

 these powers are being greatly increased in the present century, 

 and that sensitives or beings whose psychic powers are abnor- 

 mal, are much more common. I know many such of the 

 highest character and principle. 



There can, I think, be no doubt of the scientific truth of 

 these powers. 



10. Double and multiple personality. — The former to some 

 extent exists in all, and there is no man here who has not at 

 times taken part, sometimes involuntarily, in mental dialogues 

 between the two often involving sharp discussion of a painful 

 nature. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde exist in all. But when they 

 alternate in their complete possession of the faculties the 

 condition is pathological. 



I have at present a case that alternates between a shrewd 

 woman of forty and a silly child of five, caring for nothing but 

 dolls and sweets. 



I should like also to add that it will be observed that the con- 

 stant movement is always from the occult and unknown to the 

 scientific and the known ; and that innumerable phenomena once 

 regarded as the direct work of good or evil spirits are now proved 

 to be scientific facts, leaving of course behind them again 

 another dim series in their turn at present quite unaccountable. 



I for one, however, feel that in view of the wonderful forces 

 that are being brought to light and put to such remarkable use, 

 many more of these mysteries of the unseen world will be cleared 

 up, and the boundary line between Science and Eevelation made 

 more apparent, and the great work of this Institute in the full 

 and adequate recognition of both thus made easier, and its accom- 

 plishment brought nearer. The longer one lives the more one 

 sees the folly of denying the truth of phenomena we may not 

 understand. 



In conclusion I can only say that no one can feel more 

 than I do how extremely unsatisfactory such a very brief survey 

 of such a very extended subject must necessarily be, though I 

 fear even this hurried sketch has been too long. 



