the deep tones of voice. The same painful
effort on my part to hear, with no result. The vision passed. Again
the woman's face, insignificant and meaningless, succeeded it as
before. She spoke, but in less emphatic tones. It flashed upon me
I _would_ hear. After a frantic effort, I caught two words--"land,"
"America"--with positively no clue to their meaning.

"I was wide awake when the first apparition appeared, and in a
highly excited state of mind on its reappearance."

This case strikes me as particularly interesting, for the reason that it
illustrates the possible manner of the externalization of forces, and
the possible manner of their guidance and manipulation by outside
intelligences, as postulated in _Eusapia Palladino_, p. 300. Here we see
the process actually at work, as it were, described by a careful
observer, who was perfectly conscious all the time of the phenomena
going on within him. This is, to my mind, a human document of no little
importance.

It appears quite credible, therefore, that a "fluid" of some sort does
exist, and that its liberation, under certain peculiar conditions,
should produce odd physical phenomena; and this conviction has been
rendered almost a certainty by the unique experiments of Dr. Ochorowicz
with his medium, Mlle. Tomczyk. A brief summary of that case will make
this apparent.

For many years experiments of the kind here recorded have been in
progress, but the path has always been blocked by fraud and innumerable
difficulties. Dr. Ochorowicz did, however, apparently succeed in
obtaining photographs of human radiations, of thoughts, and even of
materialized hands! What are they? Are they the hands of "spirits,"
inhabitants of the "Great Beyond"? Are they astrals or elementals? Are
they projections from the body of the medium? Of what can they consist?
Who directs and guides them? And how can a thought be photographed?

These newer researches into the fields of science have been undertaken,
for the most part, by French investigators, who have progressed very far
in their demonstrations and speculations in this direction--much
further, it may be said, than either the English or American
investigators have advanced--assuming, of course, the accuracy of their
conclusions!

Dr. Ochorowicz had been known for thirty years to all researchers as a
careful investigator. Professor Charles Richet of the University of
Paris spoke of him in the high