at is the nature of
the vital drain upon the medium and the sitters? What is the nature of
the intelligence animating the materialized figure? What is the
connection between so-called "thought-forms" and materialized phantoms?

These are but some of the questions which would suggest themselves, and
call for solution when "psychics" is recognized as a legitimate science,
as it surely will be one day. These are problems mostly on the physical
plane; but the psychological problems are just as many and just as
alluring! I have referred to some of these elsewhere; and would content
myself with again saying, that only when the _facts_ of psychical
research are recognized will their real, scientific study begin.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The copy of this book in my possession is the copy once owned by Dr.
Hodgson--having his name in the front, and the date, April 1881. This
passage is marked with a thick red pencil stroke, showing the importance
which Dr. Hodgson attached to the point here made.

[2] Might not this account for the fact that trance or "spirit control"
practically never occurs during the hours of sleep? Even "obsessed"
patients find peace and rest during their sleeping hours. Is this not,
in all probability, due to the fact that the mind is, at such times,
forced in upon itself; as it were--instead of being directed
outwards--away from the centre of being, as it is daily, during
conscious life? It is probably nature's protective device--ensuring the
stability and integrity of the psychic "self."

[3] Kilner, _The Human Atmosphere_. I myself have conducted a number of
interesting experiments in this direction, which I hope to make public
at a later date.

[4] Townsend, _Facts in Mesmerism_, p. 215.

[5] _Metaphysick_, bk. iii. ch. v.

[6] _Body and Mind_, pp. 299-300.

[7] _Eusapia Palladino and her Phenomena_, pp. 293-301.

[8] _Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition_, p. 41. For discussions of this
question from a variety of different points of view, see _Life and
Matter_, by Lodge; _The Riddle of the Universe_, Haeckel; _The
Correlation of Spiritual Forces_, by Hartmann; "Consciousness and
Force," _Met. Mag._, Oct. 1910; the article on "Consciousness and
Energy," by Professor Montague, in _Essays in Honour of William James_,
and pp. 283-5 of _The New Realism_, etc.

[9] Bulwer Lytton, with his usual remarkable foresight in things
psychic, clearly perceived this. In his story, "The Haunters and the
Haunted," he s