ITo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra, — Apart from showing latent
powers in the human race which seem hardly to have any terrestrial use, these stories— such as the excellent one given in your issue of last week of the furniture dealer and his parcel seen as phantasms hurrying to a train—are interesting, because they form such close parallels to the puzzling phenomena of haunted places, which are always with us. It seems fair to argue that, if the living can produce by some mental action these things, these other apparitions prove the continuance of the mental activity of the dead.
The facts are, in reality, far too complicated to allow us to make so simple an inference, but to those who consider that (as some of your correspondents do) this power of pro- jection is a proof in itself of an immortal spirit may I point out that the same arguments would prove the immortality of all animals ? For the evidence for the apparitions of dogs, horses, and other creatures is not to be put aside. It is of the same quality as, though less abundant than, that for the apparitions of men.—I am, Sir, &o., LOCUPLES.
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