[61] See _The Art of Creation_, pp. 105–8. [62] This well-known case, given by Coleridge in his _Biographia Literaria_, is amply confirmed by scores of similar cases which have been carefully examined into and described by modern research. [63] See _Proceedings S.P.R._ vol. xii, pp. 176–203; quoted by Frederick Myers, _Human Personality_, ch. v. [64] This is contested by H. Ellis in his _World of Dreams_, p. 215, but not very successfully, I think. [65] See Myers, _op. cit._ ch. iii. p. 66; also T. J. Hudson’s interesting account of Zerah Colburn, in _Psychic Phenomena_ (1893), p. 64. [66] _Op. cit._ p. 100. De Quincey, it will be remembered, in a well-known passage of his _Confessions_, says: “Of this at least I feel assured, that there is no such thing as _forgetting_ possible to the mind; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; accidents of the same sort will also rend away this veil; but alike, whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains forever.” [67] See _Journal S.P.R._, vol. iii. p. 100; also T. J. Hudson, _op. cit._, p. 153. [68] New York, 1903, p. 64. [69] See Lombroso, _Fenomeni ipnotici e spiritici_, Turin, 1909, pp. 28–31. [70] I leave the question of the possibility of the latter open for the present. See Note at end of this chapter. [71] This was no doubt, for instance, the case with Eusapia Paladino—as admitted by her warmest supporters. But it does not contravene the fact, proved by most abundant evidence and experiment, of the astounding physical phenomena which from her early childhood accompanied her, and in some strange way exhaled from her. [72] It is impossible, for instance, to read slowly and in detail such works as A. R. Wallace’s _Miracles and Modern Spiritualism_, William Crookes’ _Researches into Spiritualism_, C. Lombroso’s _Fenomeni ipnotici e spiritici_, and to note the care and exactness with which in each case experiments were conducted, tests devised, and results recorded, without being persuaded that in the mass the conclusions (confirmed in the first two instances by the authors themselves after an interval of twenty or thirty years) are correct. Already a long list of scientific and responsible men, like Charles Richet (professor of physiology at Paris), Camille Flammarion (the well-known astronomer), Professor Zöllner of the Observatory at Leipzig, C. F. Varley the electrician, Sir Oliver Lodge of Birmingham, have made important contributions to the evidence; while others, like Professor De Morgan the mathematician, Professor Challis the astronomer, Sergeant Cox the lawyer, and Professor William James the psychologist, have signified their general adhesion. [73] For references see _supra_, ch. vi. p. 92, footnote.