CONTENTS.Lost arts 49

The human will the master-force of forces 57 Superficial generalizations of the French savants 60 Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable 67 Their relation to crime 71

CHAPTER III.

BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.

Huxley's derivation from the Orohippus 74 Comte, his system and disciples 75 The London materialists 85 Borrowed robes 89 Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective 92

CHAPTER IV.

THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA.

Theory of de Gasparin 100 " of Thury 100 " of des Mousseaux, de Mirville too " of Babinet 101 " of Houdin 101 " of MM. Royer and Jobart de Lamballe 102 The twins— "unconscious cerebration" and "unconscious ventriloquism." 105 Theory of Crookes 112 " of Faraday 116 " of Chevreuil 116 The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 117 Soul blindness 121

CHAPTER V.

THE ETHER, OR "ASTRAL LIGHT."

One primal force, but many correlations 126 Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery 127 The impossibility of miracle 128 Nature of the primordial substance 133 Interpretation of certain ancient myths 133 Experiments of the fakirs 139 Evolution in Hindu allegory 153

CHAPTER VI

PSYCHO- PHYSICAL PHENOMENA.

The debt we owe to Paracelsus 163 Mesmerism — its parentage, reception, potentiality 165