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"The accomplishment of no other function," Hyrtl remarks, "is so intimately connected with the mind and yet so independent of it." The process is still, however, but imperfectly understood; see Art. "Fécondation," by Ed. Retterer, in Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie, vol. vi, 1905.
Perhaps old Tontonava was right. Perhaps if we were all to pray for the happy hunting-grounds at the same moment and in perfect faith, the lost paradise would return builded by the simple power of our thought." Then Richet's moving confession came to me: "It took me twenty years of patient research to arrive at my present conviction.
That is why I want to enlist men like your husband in the work. Mediumship needs just such critical attention as his. Nothing like Maxwell or Richet's thoroughness of method has ever been used by an American physicist, so far as I know. On the contrary, our leading scientific men seem to have let the subject severely alone." "Why?" asked Mrs. Smiley.
One of Monsieur Richet's patients screamed with pain the moment an amputation was suggested, but almost immediately recognized that it was only a suggestion, and laughed in the midst of her tears. Probably, however, this patient was not completely hypnotized. Dr. Dumontpallier was able to produce a very curious phenomenon.
See. e.g., Papillault, Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie, 1899, p. 446. Guinard, Art. "Castration," Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie. J. Whitridge Williams, Obstetrics, 1903, p. 132. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1878, p. 19. C. Pitre, Medicina Populare Siciliana, p. 47.
Instances tending to raise a presumption in favour of M. Richet's idea may now be sought in savage and civilised life. Cf. however Princip. Spencer calls 'Animism, and does not believe in. What Mr. Tylor calls 'Animism' Mr. Scott's Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language, s.v. A.J. Balfour's Presidential Address to the Society for Psychical Research, Proceedings, vol. x. Citing Oviedo, Hist.
The possibilities which this case opens up are bewildering indeed. But it is better to state the case first and discuss it afterwards. Madame B., who is still under Prof. Richet's observations, is one of the favourite subjects of the French hypnotiser. She can be put to sleep at almost any distance, and when hypnotised completely changes her character.
"'This, the young wife said, 'is Judge White, the grandfather of the psychic, and she conversed with him, but only for a few moments. He soon dwindled and faded and melted away in the same fashion as he had come, recalling to my mind Richet's description of the birth and disappearance of 'B. B., in Algiers. I know this sounds like the veriest dreaming, but you must remember that materializations much more wonderful have been seen and analyzed in the clinical laboratories of Turin and Naples. Morselli, Bottazzi, Lombroso, Porro, and Fo
Fowler struck in: "But what will you do with materializations such as Dr. Richet studied at the Villa Carmen in Algiers? What will you do with the photographs of the spectre of the helmeted soldier which he obtained under what he declares were test conditions?" "But were they? That's the point." "I am willing to trust a man of Richet's wide knowledge and known skill in experimentation.
But it must be confessed that in Crookes's pictures there is a lack of finality in the negatives. He never succeeded in getting the faces of both 'Katie' and Miss Cook at the same time and Richet's photographs have a made-up look." Passing abruptly to a low, humming song, I made the attempt to put our psychic to sleep. In a few minutes her hands became cold and began to flutter.
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