Yet side by side with this moderate and reasonable resolution we find that the Conference registered a very strong warning against “the habit of recourse to _séances_ and mediums”. Here again is revealed once more the ignorance of many well-meaning and able critics who possess a merely superficial acquaintance with the subject. How, for example, can we study scientifically the phenomena of clairvoyance without recourse to clairvoyant mediums? Such an embargo would――to go no further――have robbed us of the profoundly interesting records of Mrs Piper’s trance-mediumship, or the striking results contained in Dr Osty’s volumes. One might almost as well approve of the scientific study of anatomy and forbid recourse to the dissecting-room. * * * * * At this point, and in view of the admitted imperfections which mark the course of our inquiry into supernormal phenomena――the fraud and credulity and malobservation which so easily beset our work――the question may fairly be asked: “Has psychical research really any future?” To such a query I have no hesitation in giving an emphatic “Yes.” One may go further and say that at no period since the subject was seriously studied have we had better reasons for such an answer. Within the last few years a veritable revolution has occurred in the general attitude of science towards the phenomena of the universe. In the light of Einstein’s discoveries the dogmatism of the materialist has become obsolete. The old scientific outlook has been undermined and superseded by scientists themselves. Atoms and electrons are no longer regarded as ultimate realities. According to Professor Eddington, “there is nothing to prevent the assemblage of atoms forming the brain from being itself a thinking machine in virtue of that nature which physics leaves undetermined and undeterminable.” Not only the ‘laws of Nature’ but space and time and the great globe itself may conceivably be mental phenomena, themselves the creations of mind. And so it has come to pass that such an utterance as Professor Clifford’s: “The Universe is made of ether and atoms and there is no room for ghosts” remains only a fragment of an outworn scientific creed. The division of the external world into a material world and a spiritual world is now held by scientists to be superficial. No inherent impossibility rules out of court the possible manifestations of other minds than ours, functioning apart from our own brains and bodies. “We may doubt,” says Professor Eddington, “whether there is any branch of knowledge from which exact science is excluded”: there _is_ “room for ghosts,” and room for other supernormal phenomena hitherto ignored or denied by scientists in general. The fact of telepathy indicates the existence of other methods of mental communion outside the recognized channels of sense, and for that reason is rejected _a priori_ by some of the more conservative representatives of science. “Such a