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conflict with any intelligible definition of the time-space as an
exactly definite quantity unless it be deprived of all utility in
helping to account for any observed phenomenon.]

It only remains under this head to notice that rare as it is for
any degree of interest to create a hallucination, outward sensation not
excited, even in part, by any physical cause, yet there is reasonably
sufficient evidence that in certain states of mind some peculiar
persons not only experience hallucinations but that these may
be vehicles of true information so that the phenomenon sometimes goes by the name of clairvoyance, and by far
the most satisfactory explanation of this is to suppose them to be commuications
from intellectual beings the matter of whose bodies
is of a non-chemical, vaguely called a “spiritual”, nature. But we remain in
dense ignorance of this department of science, owing to its having been
cultivated by cheats and dupes, while physicists, who are all specialists, and as