60 A. T. SCHOFIELD^ ON SCIENCE AND THE UNSEEN WOELD. 



observations of those who had the most intimate knowledge of the 

 character of the person under observation, the conclusions drawn 

 could not be doubted. 



The transference of the healing power from one person to another 

 points most distinctly to planes of operations for the action of this 

 force, to the existence of a medium through which it passes and 

 rays by which it traverses the medium. 



In the aura the thoughts of the moment give the colour : the 

 general character of the manifestation is more or less uniform in 

 each particular case, but the aura is coloured according to the 

 thoughts of the individual. The brightest and best colours which 

 he had observed were those radiating from a letter of the late 

 Mr. Gladstone which the speaker had held in his hand. Those who 

 have the necessary development can see the aura, those who have 

 not should not on that account disbelieve. The man of science 

 with the proper instruments can see many things hidden to 

 the unaided vision : but it is held absurd in others to disbelieve in 

 the existence of things thus seen because they have not the 

 necessary instruments. 



Colonel T. H. Hendley, CLE., said he would like to ask Dr. 

 Schofield whether in the case of Blind Martha an ophthalmoscopic 

 examination had been made, and how long she had been blind. 



Dr. Schofield admitted that he did not know her medical 

 history in detail and so far the case was defective, and as to the 

 latter the blindness had existed from childhood. 



Colonel Hendley asked whether such cases might not be due 

 to malingering ? Great powers were sometimes displayed as occurred 

 not unfrequently in the days of long service in the army. Books 

 had been written on the subject. There was a case of a soldier who 

 remained dumb for several years, resisting the most ingenious efforts 

 to discover whether he really was so or not. At last a certificate of 

 discharge from the army was made out ; on ascertaining which, and, 

 believing it was irrevocable, the soldier was heard to speak. The 

 speaker saw a woman who had been the round of the London 

 hospitals and who was brought on a bed into the casualty ward of 

 the institution in which he studied suddenly recover after some 

 years under the stimulus of the electric battery. As she rushed out 

 of the room she knocked down a porter with whom she was offended. 

 Her relatives had spent a large amount upon her. He asked how 



