ABSTRACT
The stories that come to hand, in so far as they are worthy of attention at all like the stories in Phantasms of the Living, to fall into three classes. The first class is the smallest, and is so small as yet that one can make little or nothing of it. The second class of cases is very large and, in the discussion about ‘Telepathy,’ is very insignificant for any present and positive purpose. It includes all those cases reported orally, and from the mere memory of even the most trustworthy people, where the events lie in the remoter past, say beyond ten years. The third class of cases consists of stories of recent date, told by people of good character and of generally sound memory, whose ‘telepathic’ experiences have been sporadic, and who are not themselves open to the charge of being systematically or superstitiously imaginative.
