204 THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP. and prove, well! let us say, that white is black. His criticism would make out that I am a strong, healthy, wealthy, fraudulent impostor, able to walk miles in order to ferret out people's secrets, employ hundreds of detectives for the same object, engage a staff of men to travel all over the world reading the inscrip- fions on tombstones (see his book, ‘ Psychic Phenomena”), instal a Marconi system in my house, and, in fact, do and be everything and anything but an invalid with a sense of honour, who has the misfortune to be, perhaps, a fore- runner of a future race, ora “ re-incarnated” (?) member of a past one. However, as I do not wish to see facts hidden away and lost for the lack of a little moral courage on my own part, I submit what little evidence I can, and remain content with the Aepe that the documents will appeal to a jew people, and that they will therefore make this book more acceptable than it would have been had my statements been left entirely unsubstantiated. First of all, the reader must be informed as to how it happened that these documents came to be written, and also—a weak(?) spot on which a critic is sure to lay his foot (his finger would not be big enough)—as to how it is that