at ourselves and been laughed at; but the fact remains that always
we have persisted in the believing.

"I have said that we shall never, never understand infinity while
within the limitations of our five senses. I repeat it. But that
does not imply that we shall never solve some of the mystery of
life. The occult is not only a supposition, but a fact. We have
peopled it with terror, because, like our forebears before
Columbus, we have peopled it with imagination.

"And now to my statement.

"I have called myself the Material Idealist. I have adopted an
entirely new trend of philosophy. During the past years, unknown
to you and unknown to my friends, I have allied myself with
practical science. I desired something concrete. While my
colleagues and others were pounding out tomes of wonderful
sophistry I have been pounding away at the screen of the occult.
This is a proud moment. I have succeeded. Tomorrow I shall bring
to you the fact and the substance. I have lifted up the curtain
and flooded it with the light of day. You shall have the fact for
your senses. Tomorrow I shall explain it all. I shall deliver my
greatest lecture; in which my whole Me has come to a focus. It is
not spiritualism nor sophistry. It is concrete fact and common
sense. The subject of my lecture tomorrow will be: 'The Blind
Spot.'"

Here begins the second part of the mystery.

We know now that the great lecture was never delivered.