The Daemon of Spraiton. Sources of Story
of Sir George Villier's Ghost. Clarendon. Lilly, Douch. Wyndham.
Wyndham's Letter. Sir Henry Wotton. Izaak Walton. Anthony Wood. A
Wotton Dream proved Legendary. The Ghost that appeared to Lord
Lyttleton. His Lordship's Own Ghost.
APPEARANCES OF THE DEAD
We now pass beyond the utmost limits to which a "scientific" theory of
things ghostly can be pushed. Science admits, if asked, that it does
not know everything. It is not _inconceivable_ that living minds may
communicate by some other channel than that of the recognised senses.
Science now admits the fact of hypnotic influence, though, sixty years
ago, Braid was not allowed to read a paper on it before the British
Association. Even now the topic is not welcome. But perhaps only one
eminent man of science declares that hypnotism is _all_ imposture and
malobservation. Thus it is not wholly beyond the scope of fancy to
imagine that some day official science may glance at the evidence for
"telepathy".
But the stories we have been telling deal with living men supposed to
be influencing living men.
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