The first communication from General Grant was recorded September ninth. It is peremptory in tone, and contains a warning touching the insecurity of the Panama Canal. In November Mr. Harding made a tour of inspection and found the fortifications of the Canal inadequate. I then decided on the publication of these messages. They deal with the actual. Take, for example, John Marshall's documents, which are filled with warnings no reader with intelligence will attempt to refute, Disraeli's indictment of English statesmanship in recent times, Lincoln's utterances on affairs in Europe and Mexico, General Grant on Preparation, Benjamin Franklin on the Privilege of Liberty, Bishop Phillips Brooks on the Coming Ordeals, to name but a few. As a Judge sums up, regardless of who may or may not agree, a decision is rendered according to the vision of the one who delivers the message. Principle, not Party, is the basis of judgment. Witness Disraeli's remark that the blunders committed by the British Parliament would have been impossible in an Irish Parliament in Dublin. In a series of articles in "Nash's Magazine" Mr. Basil King suggests that "the means of communication with the plane next above us may be through the everlasting doors which the subliminal opens upward. Through these doors the mind may go up and out; through these doors the light may come in and down." In our group of investigators we have had the perseverence essential for serious development, and, as in all demonstrations, whether physical or psychical, everything depends on conditions, so we have had periods of weeks when no message of any kind was received. A striking feature of these communications is their freedom from restraint imposed by popular opinion. They contain neither theories nor appeals. Warnings are uttered concerning events and their inevitable reactions. The psycho-phonic waves, by which the messages are imparted, are as definite as those received by wireless methods. FRANCIS GRIERSON. Los Angeles, California CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 5 Foreword 13 Thomas Reed, of Maine, Late Speaker of the House, on the Peace League 21 General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America 24 General U. S. Grant (second message) 27 Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American Democracy 30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the Future of American Women 33 Benjamin Franklin, on the Privilege of Liberty 43 John Marshall, "The Expounder of the Constitution," on the Psychology of the Supreme Court 46 Daniel Webster, on "Bohemian" Statesmen 47 Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the New Eden 49