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Oh! I can't explain all the things, certainly I can't explain, for instance, the pencil affair--when it stood up on end before Laurie's eyes; that is, if it did really stand up at all He says hi seems rather dim now, as if he had seen it in a very vivid dreas?) "Then there are the appearances Laurie saw; and the extraordinary effect they finally had upon hiht of Easter Eve, Iwas real, that he was actually obsessed, that the thing--the Personality, I mean--came at me instead, and that soht--Well; I'll come to that presently But if it didn't happen, I certainly can't explain what did; but there are a good s one can't explain; and yet one doesn't instantly rush to the conclusion that they're done by the devil People say that we know very little indeed about the inner working of our own selves There's instinct, for instance We know nothing about that except that it is so 'Inherited experience' is only rather a cluus ie poured out for herself a second cup of tea

"My third theory I'ether And yet I see quite well that it may be the true one (Please don't interrupt till I've quite done) "We've got in us certain powers that we don't understand at all For instance, there's thought-projection There's not a shadow of doubt that that is so I can sit here and send you a uely, of course It's another form of e mean by Sympathy and Intuition Well, you know, some people think that haunted houses can be explained by this When theon, the murderer and the er, fear, and so on That ht to the bottohtfully active Well, the idea is that these hidden powers are alas--Hudson tells us all about that--and that they can actually staree that when a sympathetic person co just as it happened It acts upon his h the senses--just the reverse order to that in which we generally see things