This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... 248 CHAPTER VII. PREMONITORY DREAMS. The beginning of things evades us; their end Evades us also. We see only the middle.--Indian Poet. We come now to a class of dream that has been ignored, evaded, sneered at, disbelieved in, and, finally, investigated and proved. It is a class of dream for which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... 248 CHAPTER VII. PREMONITORY DREAMS. The beginning of things evades us; their end Evades us also. We see only the middle.--Indian Poet. We come now to a class of dream that has been ignored, evaded, sneered at, disbelieved in, and, finally, investigated and proved. It is a class of dream for which that convenient word "coincidence" is brought into use. If "coincidence" explains all cases of premonition, there is only this to say, that the explanation is far more wonderful than that which it explains. The man who argues thus must take one of three lines: x "He must either (i) maintain that the alleged coincidences are misrepresented as such to a much larger extent than we have allowed for, or (2) that they have been sought after by the collectors, and illegitimately introduced into the collection to a much larger extent in proportion to non-coincidental cases than we have allowed for, or (3) admitting that the coincidences really exist in a proportion sufficient to prove a causal connection between the apparition and the death of the person seen, he may maintain that this i Vol. x., part xxvi. of Proceedings S. P. R. connection is not telepathic, but consists in a condition favourable to hallucination being produced in the percipient in some normal way by the circumstances of the case. "The first of these lines of argument can only be met by reference to the evidence on which each case rests. This in twenty-six--or in fact thirty-one--cases is before the reader, and he must form his own estimate. We need only point out here that the evidence must break down in a wholesale way in order to destroy our argument. For the margin on the side against chance is very large, even one death-coincidence being more than we should be justified in...
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Good. Hardback, gilt titles to spine and illustration to front board. 320pp, 32pp. 1st edition 1901. Some fraying to spine. Previous owner's foxed bookplate to front pastedown. A rather pleasing copy. (bs104)
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