i 885-3 Correspondence. 307 
Ghost or Spirit redtor, is ourself. And surely this may suffice, 
seeing in every pulse beat we enjoy, or endure, according as we 
are well or ill, — the sensation of endlessness in time or space, — 
the feeling of infinitude being an inner one, as all feelings must 
be. It really is high time this pernicious and grotesque ana- 
chronism should, with other cognate anti-scientific sciologies, 
disappear from our lives which they deform. Reason cannot 
rule till all such are unsphered. On its very face animistic 
dualism is a detected imposture. For, as above insisted on, how 
can we coherently even imagine union between two such hete- 
rogeneous “ substances,” as an “ immaterial principle,” and a 
material organism ? 
Robert Lewins, M.D. 
TELEPATHY. 
Surely Dr. G. Wyld’s objection to the theory that thought is 
transferred from one brain to another, by a process of undulation 
or vibration, is inadmissible ! The various coats in which the 
brain is enclosed may certainly exclude the light-waves, but we 
know of no substance capable of excluding the magnetic vibra- 
tions. And there may be other modes of energy equally incapable 
of insulation. 
Physicus. 
INCONSISTENCY AMONG SPIRITUALISTS. 
Though by inserting the recent article by R. M. N. you have 
almost overstepped your usual benevolent neutrality on the 
question of Spiritualism, you will doubtless not refuse to insert 
the following : — If there is one complaint more frequently urged 
by Spiritualists against men of Science than any other, it is that 
the latter dismiss facts on a priori considerations of what is, or 
is not, possible. Yet in a work which appears to be written by 
Spiritualists, and which many of them at all events approve of, I 
find it written— “ When thy senses affirm that which thy reason 
denies, reject the testimony of thy senses and listen only to thy 
reason ! ” How are these contradictions to be harmonised ? 
A Lucretian. 
