Telepathy, as it is clumsily called, which is nothing more than
this direct communication of mind, is a thing which has been
demonstrated in a way which no reasonable person can reject. We may
call it abnormal if we like, and it is true that we do not as yet
know under what conditions it exists; but it is as much there as
electrical communication, and just as the electrician does not
create the viewless ripples which his delicate instruments can
catch and record, but merely makes it a matter of mechanics to
detect them, so the ripple of human intercommunication is
undoubtedly there; and when we have discovered what its laws are,
we shall probably find that it underlies many things, such as
enthusiasms, movements, the spirit of a community, patriotism,
martial ardour, which now appear to us to be isolated and
mysterious phenomena.
But there is a larger thing than even that behind. In humanity we
have merely a certain portion of this large life, which may spread
for all we know beyond the visible universe, globed and bounded,
like the spray of a fountain, into little separate individualities.
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