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then we must presume that each of these components, like every other bit
of matter, has its movements of vibration, and will, under suitable conditions,
be affected; as, for instance, the nerve cells of the retina by vibration in
the ether. If another neuron, situated not far away, should acquire the same
movement of vibration, there seems to be no good reason why they should
not materially affect each other through the ether.”
Dr. Sheldon Leavitt says: “There is no disputing the fact that those
who have given the subject of telepathy attentive thought and patient
investigation have become convinced of its truth and practicability. My own
experience has given me unwavering convictions. I know that in some way
thought can be transmitted from one conscious mind to another; and I have
good reason to believe that it can be transmitted still more forcibly and fully
to the unconscious mind of the recipient.”
Camille Flammarion, the French astronomer, says: “We sum up, therefore,
our preceding observations by the conclusion that one mind can act upon
another at a distance without the habitual medium of words, or any other
visible means of communication. It appears to us altogether unreasonable
to reject this conclusion if we accept the facts. There is nothing unscientific,
nothing romantic in admitting that an idea can influence a brain from a
distance. The action of one human being upon another, from a distance,
is a scientific fact; it is as certain as the existence of Paris, of Napoleon, of
Oxygen, or of Sirius.” Again the same authority says: “There can be no doubt
that our psychical force creates a movement of the ether, which transmits
itself afar like all movements of ether, and becomes perceptible to brains
in harmony with our own. The transformation of a psychic action into an
ethereal movement, and the reverse, may be analogous to what takes place
on a telephone, where the receptive plate, which is identical with the plate
at the other end, reconstructs the sonorous movement transmitted, not by
means of sound, but by electricity. But these are only comparisons.”
Page after page could be filled with like expressions of belief in thoughttransmission,
on the part of the thinking public, but the same is not deemed