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any knowledge whatsoever. Moreover, these reports are of ordinary events on our own material earth. They do not concern the spirit world. "The subconscious stresses its own identity, separating it from the hypnotized patient, yet acknowledging him as part of itself as it were." One might conclude with the speculations of an observer famous in every corner of the scientific world, who, writing but half a dozen years ago, could envisage the scorn of so-called thinkers for the views he dared to propound. "The psychological frontiers of the individual in space and time are obviously suppositions," wrote Alexis Carrel. "But suppositions, even when very strange, are convenient and help to group together facts that are temporarily unexplainable. Their purpose is merely to inspire new experiments. The author realizes clearly that his conjectures will be considered naive or heretical by the layman, as well as by the scientist. That they will equally displease materialists and spiritualists, vitalists and mechanicists. That the equilibrium of his intellect will be doubted. However, one cannot neglect facts because they are strange. On the contrary, one must investigate them. Metapsychics may bring to us more important information on the nature of man than normal psychology does. The societies of psychical research, and especially the English Society, have attracted to clairvoyance and telepathy the attention of the public. The time has come to study the phenomena as one studies physiological phenomena." After that apology for scientific stupidity, and an explanation of "how the individual projects on all sides beyond his anatomical frontiers", he proceeds: "But man diffuses through space in a still more positive way. In telepathic phenomena, he instantaneously sends out a part of himself a sort of emanation, which joins a far-away relative or friend. He