ABSTRACT
When we come to designate the phenomenon to be studied in this chapter, it is difficult to find a word that is free from all objection. For want of a better term, we shall for the moment employ the expression, "communication of thought." It is called also, "transmission of thought," "thought-transference," "thought-reading," "divination or penetration of thought." But the term which the majority of our contemporaries seem to favor is "mental suggestion"— even though this has the disadvantage of implying an interpretation preconceived, and consequently hypothetical, of the phenomenon, thus comparing it without proof to ordinary suggestion.
