These men know more than your Tyndalls or Huxleys do about Nature's processes, and they can accelerate or retard her workings by subtle means of which we have no conception.

These low-caste conjurers--as they are called--are mere vulgar dabblers, but the men who have trod the higher path are as far superior to us in knowledge as we are to the Hottentots or Patagonians." "You speak as if you were well acquainted with them," I remarked.
"To my cost, I am," he answered.

"I have been brought in contact with them in a way in which I trust no other poor chap ever will be.

But, really, as regards odyllic force, you ought to know something of it, for it has a great future before it in your profession.

You should read Reichcnbach's 'Researches on Magnetism and Vital Force,' and Gregory's 'Letters on Animal Magnetism.' These, supplemented by the twenty-seven Aphorisms of Mesmer, and the works of Dr.Justinus Kerner, of Weinsberg, would enlarge your ideas." I did not particularly relish having a course of reading prescribed for me on a subject connected with my own profession, so I made no comment, but rose to take my departure.