ame room
blindfold and wholly disconnected from the others,
seem to me absolutely satisfactory, and such as to
preclude the possibility of conscious collusion on
the one hand or unconscious muscular indication on
the other.

"One evening last week--after two thinkers, or
agents, had been several times successful in
instilling the idea of some object or drawing, at
which they were looking, into the mind of the
blindfold person, or percipient--I brought into the
room a double opaque sheet of thick paper with a
square drawn on one side and a St. Andrew's cross
or X on the other, and silently arranged it between
the two agents so that each looked on one side
without any notion of what was on the other. The
percipient was not informed in any way that a novel
modification was being made; and, as usual, there
was no contact of any sort or kind--a clear space
of several feet existing between each of the three
people. I thought that by this variation I should
decide whether one of the two agents was more
active than the other; or, supposing them about
equal, whether two ideas in two separate minds
could be fused into one by the percipient.

"In a very short time the percipient made the
following remarks, every one else being silent:
'The thing won't keep still.' 'I seem to see things
moving about.' 'First I see a thing up there, and
then one down there.' 'I can't see either
distinctly.' The object was then hidden, and the
percipient was told to take off the bandage and to
draw the impression in her mind on a sheet of
paper. She drew a square, and then said, 'There was
the other thing as well,' and drew a cross inside
the square from corner to corner, saying
afterwards, 'I don't know what made me put it
inside.'

[Illustration: ORIGINALS.]

[Illustration: REPRODUCTION.]

"The experiment is no more conclusive as evidence
than fifty others that I have seen at Mr.
Guthrie's, but it seems to me somewhat interesting
that two minds should produce a disconnected sort
of impression on the mind