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32 PREFACE.
identity of a friend, whom one has known for many years.
Mr. Turvey is a real man, and no myth. He lives at a seaside watering-place, in a villa pleasantly placed in the midst of a large garden surrounded by pine woods. He pays rates and taxes like an ordinary mortal, sends his children to school, and provides for the expenses of his household in the ordinary way of ordinary men. In personal appearance he is a man like other men, bearing indeed an almost uncanny re- semblance to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, of whom he appears to be a miniature edition. There is nothing to differentiate him from the other well-to-do British citizens in the midst of whom he lives and moves and has his being, Nevertheless, to this individual, an apparently average specimen of the human race, there have occurred the experiences which are set forth, with definite precision and minute detail, in the chapters of this book. These experi- ences certainly suggest the possession by the author of faculties that, as yet, have not been evolved in the rest of mankind.
There seems little in his personal history to indicate why he more than others should have this abnormal mentality. He is a Lancashire man, born in Southport on February 11, 1873,
identity of a friend, whom one has known for many years.
Mr. Turvey is a real man, and no myth. He lives at a seaside watering-place, in a villa pleasantly placed in the midst of a large garden surrounded by pine woods. He pays rates and taxes like an ordinary mortal, sends his children to school, and provides for the expenses of his household in the ordinary way of ordinary men. In personal appearance he is a man like other men, bearing indeed an almost uncanny re- semblance to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, of whom he appears to be a miniature edition. There is nothing to differentiate him from the other well-to-do British citizens in the midst of whom he lives and moves and has his being, Nevertheless, to this individual, an apparently average specimen of the human race, there have occurred the experiences which are set forth, with definite precision and minute detail, in the chapters of this book. These experi- ences certainly suggest the possession by the author of faculties that, as yet, have not been evolved in the rest of mankind.
There seems little in his personal history to indicate why he more than others should have this abnormal mentality. He is a Lancashire man, born in Southport on February 11, 1873,
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