possessed by the medium, for the whole environment is found to be exactly as described, and the body is found in the very spot indicated. Now, the spiritists say that this occurrence cannot be explained by reference to telepathy, for the reason that D was not _en rapport_ with A, nor with B. Nor was C _en rapport_ with A, for the latter was dead before C could have become cognizant of the facts. The obvious answer to this is, as before indicated, that if the power exists in man to convey a telepathic message to his fellow-man, it presupposes the existence of the power in the percipient to repeat the message to a third person, and so on indefinitely, until some one receives it who has the power to elevate the information above the threshold of his consciousness, and thus convey it to the objective intelligence of the world. Nor is the element of time necessarily an adverse factor in the case; for there is no reason to suppose that such messages may not be transmitted from one to another for generations. Thus, the particulars of a tragedy might be revealed many years after the event, and in such a way as to render it difficult, if not impossible, to trace the line through which the intelligence was transmitted. For the spiritist the easy and ever-ready explanation of such a phenomenon is to ascribe it to the intervention of spirits of the dead. But to those who have kept pace with the developments of modern scientific investigation, and who are able to draw the legitimate and necessary conclusions from the facts discovered, the explanation is obvious, without the necessity of entering the domain of the supernatural. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 35: See "Phantasms of the Living," and the Proceedings of the London Society for Psychical Research, for full confirmation of this statement.] [Footnote 36: Book on Mediums, pp. 331-2.] [Illustration] CHAPTER XVII. THE PHENOMENA OF SPIRITISM (_continued_). Psychometry.--"The Souls of Things."--Professor Denton's Experiments.--Wonderful Visions of the Ancient Environment of Geological Specimens.--A Piece of Mortar from Cicero's House.--Supposed Scientific Tests.--Explanation on Telepathic Principles.--Experiments in Hypnotism compared.--Clairvoyance and Telepathy.--Their Boundary Lines in Transit.--Clairaudience.--Definitions of the Term.--Socrates and his Dæmon.--Modern Instances.--Mental Impressions.--Premonitions.--Their Unreliability.--Remarkable Examples of Clairaudience.--A Lawyer's Experience.--Subject to the Law of Suggestion.--Insanity sometimes results from Ignorance of the Cause.--Practical Suggestions.