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for the soul of Sir Hugh Lane;" and in answer to
the question, "Who is speaking?" came "I am Sir
She did not know he was a passenger.
Hugh Lane."
She then got a further message from him, and he
said he was drowned, and didn't suffer. News of
his death came days after*
Professor Jacks, then President of the S.P.R.,
says a spirit told him about a MS. lying in his study
drawer, of which no one knew but himself, and
quoted from it.
"Spirits," says Professor Jacks, "are apt to get
mixed. For instance, if
speaking to Sir Walter
Scott, the spirit would declare he died one thousand
miles from Abbotsford; and, when asked which
Scott he was, would reply, 'Sir Gilbert.'"
Professor Jacks said he did not know what to make
of all this. It seemed to him, after all these years,
they were only beginning ;
and the haste some people
were showing to prove that "survival after death"
was the only explanation was only damaging
inquiry.
After all, it is not perhaps what is said on these
occasions that is of so much importance, as the mere
fact that anything is said at all.
When I was at Elizabeth College, in Guernsey,
the niece of our then ambassador at Berlin, a lady
well known at the Prussian Court in 1850, used to
show me sheets and sheets of automatic writing, and
beautifully drawn and painted fruit and flowers,
done with great rapidity by her hand, used involuntarily.
When, however, raps and voices succeeded
she got frightened and gave it all up. An
Arab gentleman, known to me, did not give it up,