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lie in the future is also under experimental investigation that seems to promise positive results." Bavink observes: 'It is agreed that there is such a thing as true knowledge of the contents of another person's mental life, which is not transmitted in the usual way by the known senses. Even such critical investigators as Lehman, Dessoir, and Baerwald admit today the existence of genuine telepathy. Saltmarsh says: 'As a matter of personal opinion and as a result of prolonged and careful study of the evidence, I am forced to the conclusion that non-inferential precognitions do occur, that is to say, that chance, illusion of memory, or any other normal cause cannot account for all the cases of fore-knowledge which have been investigated and published." Dr. T. W. Mitchell is reported to have said in the course of a paper: "Telepathy or some mode of acquiring knowledge which for the present we might call supernormal must be admitted, for if we refuse to accept telepathy we stood helpless in the face of well-attested phenomena which we could not account for and could not deny.'4 Professor. H. H. Price writes: 'The evidence for telepathy and clairvoyance is both abundant and good; and the evidence for pre-cognation-the most paradoxical, perhaps, of all super-normal phenomena is very considerable." Professor Richet, a great French psychologist, admits that telepathic lucidity certainly exists. There is a great faculty of cognition in human beings that brings information which could not possibly be acquired by the normal senses. The faculty of cryptaesthesia is not limited by time and space." Dr. Rhine holds that extra-sensory It is not a perception is an actual demonstrable occurrence. sensory phenomenon. It seems to be a fairly dependable and persistent capacity when it is given proper conditions for its functioning. In an interesting analysis of the spontaneous cases of fore
1 Riddle of Life, p. 235.
2 Anatomy of Modern Science, p. 523
3 Foreknowledge, p. 114.
• London Times, dated September 6, 1927.
5 Questions about Telepathy and Clairvoyance, Philosophy, October,
1940.
• Thirty Years of Psychical Research, pp. 203-4. (Cryptaesthesia is a
general term covering the varieties of supernormal modes of sensibility, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and the like.)
? Extra-sensory Perception, pp. 220-3.
