The concluding passages of the address were remarkable for the
President's review of his thirty years' experiments in the domain of psychical research. Sir William Crookes—who, be it noted, is also President of the Society of Psychical Research —declared not only that he had nothing to retract from his published statements, but that he thought he could see a Little further now. "I have glimpses of something like coherence among these strange elusive phenomena:" and he went on to say that confirmation of telepathic phenomena was now furnished by many converging experiments,—such such as those of Röntgen in the domain of wave vibrations, and of Branly, Lodge, and Marconi in that of wireless telegraphy. Sir William also bore testimony to the value of the researches of Messrs. Myers and Henry Sidgwick and the late Edmund Gurney in the analysis of the subconscious workings of the mind. In an eloquent peroration he contrasted the attitude of the Egyptians in confronting the baffling mysteries of the uni- verse—as illustrated by the inscription in the temple of Isis : "I am whatever bath been, is, or ever will be ; and my veil no man hath yet lifted "—with the temper of the modern seeker after truth in confronting Nature : "Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful with every barrier that is withdrawn."
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