give this narrative as it was related to me. No misgivings as to the
reality of the vision existed in the minds of the personages in my
grandmother's household.

Allow me to mention another illustration. In February, 1889, I
received from H. Van der Kerkhare the following communication,
relating to an article I had published about this class of phenomena.

While in Texas, on August 25, 1874, towards sunset, I was
smoking my after-dinner pipe in a room on the ground floor
of the house I occupied. I was facing the wall, with a door
on my right opening towards the northwest. Here is a diagram
of the scene.

[Illustration]

Suddenly I saw my old grandfather in the doorway. I was in
that semi-conscious state of well-being and quietude natural
to a man with a good appetite who has dined satisfactorily.
I was not at all astonished to see my grandfather there. In
fact, I was vegetating just then, thinking of nothing in
particular. Nevertheless, I said to myself:--"It is droll
that the rays of the setting sun should pour gold and purple
through the least folds of my grandfather's garments and
face." In fact, the setting sun was red, and threw its last
horizontal rays diagonally athwart the doorway. Grandfather
had a beneficent countenance. He smiled and seemed happy.
All at once he disappeared along with the vanishing sun, and
I roused myself as from a dream, but with the conviction
that I had seen an apparition. Six weeks afterwards I was
apprised by letter that my grandfather had died on the night
of August 25 and 26 between one and two o'clock. Well, there
is a difference of five and one-half hours between the
longitude of Belgium, where my grandfather died, and the
longitude of Texas where I was, and where the sun set at
about seven o'clock.

It would be easy to cite a large number of similar cases. Let me end
this section with the following conclusion of Ch. Richet, the learned
editor of the _Revue Scientifique_:--

Unless we discredit the value of all human testimony, these
stories are veritable and accurate. Whenever kindred
incidents are reproduced by experiment, telepathy will no
longer be disputed, but admitted as a natural phenomenon, as
well proven as the rotation of the earth, or as the
contagion of tuberculosis. To-day's audacious theories will,