One wonderful experience may be quoted, as quite in line with Professor James’ argument in his Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University (May, 1901). In discussing “The reality of the Unseen,” this brilliant exponent of the new Psychology instanced a number of curious cases of the occurrence of a “presence” to individuals, and he maintained that the sentiment of reality could indeed attach itself to things of which the representative faculty could frame only the dimmest sort of an idea. And abstractions other than the ideas of pure reason had the power of making us feel presences that we were impotent articulately to describe. No more striking example of his contention could be desired than the following. It is entitled, “Of the consolation which the monks when they were weary on their journey, received from the saint visiting them in spirit.” Baithene and the brethren were returning in the evening to the monastery from the harvest work when something strange and unusual was felt by them all. It is thus described by an elder brother. “I perceive,” he said to the others, “the fragrance of such a wonderful odour, just as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together into one place. I feel also a glow of heat within me, not at all painful, but most pleasing, and a certain unusual and inexpressible joy poured into my heart, which on a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me that I forget grief and weariness of every kind. Even the load, however heavy, which I carry on my back, is in some mysterious way so lightened from this place all the way to the monastery that I do not seem to have any weight to bear.”