they were in our arms; let us then keep a watch upon ourselves, so
that they witness no actions and hear no words but words and actions
that shall be worthy of them.

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SUPERNATURAL COMMUNICATIONS IN WAR-TIME




XVI

SUPERNATURAL COMMUNICATIONS IN WAR-TIME


1

In a volume entitled _The Unknown Guest_, published not long ago,
among other essays I devoted one in particular[7] to certain phenomena
of intuition, clairvoyance or clairaudience, vision at great distance
and even vision of the future. These phenomena were grouped together
under the somewhat unsuitable and none too well-constructed title of
"psychometry," which, to borrow Dr. Maxwell's excellent definition, is
"the faculty possessed by certain persons of placing themselves in
relation, either spontaneously or, for the most part, through the
intermediary of some object, with unknown and often very distant