Against the advancing tide of unbelief or indifference the modern presentation of religion seems wellnigh helpless. Nevertheless, if this spirit of blank negation or complete indifference continues to make headway, it is difficult to see how either moral or religious sanctions can retain their authority. If annihilation be our fate, any moral guidance of the Universe must appear to many minds almost inconceivable. And if the moral guidance of the whole collapses, schemes of morality for the parts become a _reductio ad absurdum_: the Divine sanctions of the Sermon on the Mount are replaced by systems of glorified Police Regulations imposed by the shifting decrees of a human majority. Within the narrow limits at our disposal we can only indicate very briefly the main lines along which psychic research may serve to establish the fact of a survival. The cumulative effect of the evidence offered is very great and may avail――in Glanville’s words of old――“to secure some of the out-works of religion and regain a parcel of ground which bold infidelity hath invaded.” (1) Various forms of automatism and certain well attested physical phenomena indicate the existence of discarnate intelligences. (2) Telepathy proves that thought can be conveyed apart from the ordinary channels of sense, and, if telepathy be accepted as the cause of apparitions of the living, it would seem that the dead whose phantasmal forms appear to us are also capable of volition. The apparition (seen simultaneously by two witnesses) of a dead mother bending over the cot of her dying child “with a look of infinite love and tenderness” is deeply significant. Of even greater evidential value are the well-attested accounts of apparitions seen by dying children or their young brothers and sisters who were present at the deathbed. (3) Many of the communications which reach us from tried and tested mediums, like Mrs Piper, appear to be what they claim to be, actual messages from deceased persons. (4) It is virtually impossible to attribute some of the ‘cross-correspondences’ recorded by the S. P. R. to any other agency but the conscious and detailed activity of a discarnate personality. * * * * *