[110] The cobwebby sensation alluded to above is often mentioned by other writers. Dr. J. Maxwell, in his _Metaphysical Phenomena_ (Duckworth, 1905), p. 329, describes a case in which the radiation of force from the fingers of a medium was great enough to move a small statuette five or six inches distant, and absolutely without contact; but the phenomenon was accompanied by a “Spider-web or cobwebby sensation in the hands.” The author of that interesting book _Interwoven_ (Boston, 1905, copyright by S. L. Ford), speaks of “the protoplasmic vapor of the inner man,” and says (p. 15): “It is this frail vapor which comes out at death and tries to form into spiritual body”; and again (p. 19): “I notice at death that nature draws or relieves the fire of the ganglia first and all the lines of sensation in light which were running down the nerves. It looks like white seaweed, very light and airy and fragile ... a veil of shining which is scarcely substance because of its white fire.” [111] _Fenomeni ipnotici_, &c., p. 195. [112] Namely, the highly charged electrostatic condition of mediums, the luminous clouds floating near them, the stars and rays of light in their vicinity, the photographic activity of their emanations, and so forth. [113] So much smaller than the atom that “if the earth represented an electron, an atom would occupy a sphere with the sun as centre and four times the distance of the earth as radius.” See _Electrons_, by Oliver Lodge, p. 98. [114] _Ibid._, pp. 82, 83. [115] _Immortality_, p. 148. [116] _Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism_ (Burns, 1874), p. 86. [117] _Materializations_, p. 12. [118] R. Dale Owen, _The Debatable Land_, p. 399. [119] See _Annals of Psychical Science_, Report 1910–11. [120] See Gustave Le Bon’s _Evolution of Matter_ (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1907). [121] See Le Bon, p. 45. [122] For cases of hypnotic trance induced in one person by the telepathic action of another person at a distance, see Myers, _op. cit._, p. 160. [123] _Revue Philosophique_, August, 1887. [124] Myers, _op. cit._, p. 149. [125] _Ibid._, p. 144. See also Henri Bergson’s _L’Évolution Créatrice_, p. 102, on the _canalization_ of the senses. [126] See chapter xiii. p. 243. [127] It seems probable, from many considerations, that at a certain depth within us—in the region of what has been called the cosmic consciousness—memory does in nowise fade, and the past is always present, but, as Bergson says, the ordinary conscious intellect tends to only select from this mass what is needed for impending action, and has consequently become limited by this tendency. [128] See the work of Richard Semon on the _mneme_ as a main factor of organic life (_Die Mneme als erhaltendes Prinzip im Wechsel des organischen Geschehens_, Leipzig, 1904); also quoted by Auguste Forel, _The Sexual Question_ (English edition, Rebman, 1908), pp. 14–17. [129] See _An Adventure_, Macmillan & Co., 1911.