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International Economics – 13th Edition Test Bank

*c. the percentage of a nation's imports and exports to its GDP

d. all of the above

5. Economic interdependence is greater for:

*a. small nations

b. large nations
c. developed nations
d. developing nations

6. The gravity model of international trade predicts that trade between two nations is
larger

a. the larger the two nations

b. the closer the nations
c. the more open are the two nations
*d. all of the above

7. International economics deals with:

a. the flow of goods, services, and payments among nations

b. policies directed at regulating the flow of goods, services, and payments
c. the effects of policies on the welfare of the nation
*d. all of the above

8. International trade theory refers to:

*a. the microeconomic aspects of international trade

b. the macroeconomic aspects of international trade
c. open economy macroeconomics or international finance
d. all of the above

9. Which of the following is not the subject matter of international finance?

a. foreign exchange markets

b. the balance of payments
*c. the basis and the gains from trade
d. policies to adjust balance of payments disequilibria

10. Economic theory:

a. seeks to explain economic events

b. seeks to predict economic events
c. abstracts from the many detail that surrounds an economic event
*d. all of the above

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11. Which of the following is not an assumption generally made in the study of
international economics?

a. two nations
b. two commodities
*c. perfect international mobility of factors
d. two factors of production

12. In the study of international economics:

a. international trade policies are examined before the bases for trade
b. adjustment policies are discussed before the balance of payments
c. the case of many nations is discussed before the two-nations case
*d. none of the above

13. International trade is similar to interregional trade in that both must overcome:

*a. distance and space

b. trade restrictions
c. differences in currencies
d. differences in monetary systems

14. The opening or expansion of international trade usually affects all members of
society:

a. positively
b. negatively
*c. most positively but some negatively
d. most negatively but some positively

15. An increase in the dollar price of a foreign currency usually:

a. benefit U.S. importers

*b. benefits U.S. exporters
c. benefit both U.S. importers and U.S. exporters
d. harms both U.S. importers and U.S. exporters

16. Which of the following statements with regard to international economics is true?

a. It is a relatively new field

*b. it is a relatively old field
c. most of its contributors were not economists
d. none of the above

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Exploring the Variety of Random
Documents with Different Content
sensitive to pick out one and describe it, without anyone knowing
which it was. Among them were a fragment of brick from ancient
Rome, antimony from Borneo, silver from Mexico, basalt from
Fingal’s Cave. Each place was described correctly by the sensitive in
the most minute detail. A fragment from the Mount of Olives brought
a description of Jerusalem; and one from the Great Pyramid enabled
a young man of Melbourne to name and describe it. There was a
practical side to the question. His wife had, from a chip of wood,
described a suicide; this was subsequently confirmed. A number of
experiments from a fragment of Kent’s Cave, fragments from
Pompeii and other places brought minute descriptions from the
sensitive.”
Mr. Stead bears his testimony to psychometry. He gave a shilling
to two ladies, at different periods, and unknown to each other. In fact,
they were perfect strangers. This shilling, in his mind, had a special
story connected with it. The first lady lived in Wimbledon, and had
the profession of being a clairvoyante. To use Mr. Stead’s own
words, he states:—“I took from my purse a shilling which I most
prized of all the pieces of money in my possession. I said nothing to
her beyond that I had carried it in my pocket for several years. She
held the shilling in her hand for sometime, and said:—‘This carries
me back to a time of confusion and much anxiety, with a feeling that
everything depended upon a successful result. This shilling brings
me a vision of a very low woman, ignorant and drunken, with whom
you had much better have nothing to do. There is a great deal of
fever about. I feel great pains, as if I had rheumatic fever in my
ankles and joints, but especially in my ankles and my throat. I suffer
horribly in my throat; it is an awful pain. And now I feel a coarse,
bare hand pass over my brow as distinctly as if you had laid your
hand there. It must be her hand. I feel the loss of a child. This
woman is brought to me by another. She is about thirty-two years;
about five feet high, with dark brown hair, grey eyes, small, nicely-
formed nose, large mouth.’” “Can you tell me her name?” asked Mr.
Stead. “Not certain, but I think it seems like Annie.” “That is all right,”
said Mr. Stead, and he told her the story of that shilling. About a
month afterwards, Mr. Stead tried a Swedish opera singer, who had
clairvoyant powers, with the shilling. She pressed it to her brow, and
then she told Mr. Stead “she saw a poor woman give him, from her
pocket-money, the last shilling she possessed. She has a great
admiration for you, she said. She seems to think you have saved
her, but she is not une grande dame. Indeed, she seems to be a girl
of the town.” Mr. Stead said:—“I had not spoken a word, or given her
the least hint of the story of the shilling.” Now, what are the facts? Mr.
Stead says that he “was standing his trial at the Old Bailey, a poor
outcast girl of the streets, who was dying of a loathsome disease in
the hospital, asked that the only shilling that she possessed in the
world, might be given to the fund which was being raised in his
defence. It was handed to him when he came out of jail, with, ‘From
a dying girl in hospital, who gives her last shilling,’ written on the
paper.” He (Mr. Stead) has carried it about him ever since, never
allowing it to be out of his possession for a single day.
The symptoms which the first clairvoyante, or psychometrix,
described, were very like those which this poor creature was
suffering from in her dying hours. It is too probable that the donor
was a low, drunken woman.
These two readings are actually more psychometric than
clairvoyant, because, from the clue furnished, they went back and
described the conditions and surroundings of the woman who parted
with this shilling. They were not thought-readers, because they did
not describe what was passing in Mr. Stead’s mind. Mr. Stead’s
experiences fairly illustrate the exercise, in the earlier stages of
employment, of the psychometric faculty.
While engaged writing the “Real Ghost Stories,” Mr. Stead says:
—“My attention was called to a young lady, Miss Catherine Ross, of
41 High Street, Smethwick, Birmingham, who, being left with an
invalid sister to provide for, and without other available profession or
industry, bethought herself of a curious gift of reading character, with
which she seems to have been born, and had subsequently
succeeded in earning a more or less precarious income by writing
out characters at the modest fee of 5s. You sent her any article you
pleased that had been in contact with the object, and she sent you
by return a written analysis of the subject’s character. I sent her
various articles from one person at different times, not telling her
they were from the same person. At one time a tuft of hair from his
beard, at another time a fragment of a nail, and a third time a scrap
of handwriting. Each delineation of character differed in some points
from the other two, but all agreed, and they were all remarkably
correct. When she sent the last she added, ‘I don’t know how it is,
but I feel I have described this person before.’ I have tried her since
then with locks of hair from persons of the most varied disposition,
and have found her wonderfully correct.”
“All these things are very wonderful, but the cumulative value of
the evidence is too great for any one to pooh-pooh it as antecedently
impossible. The chances against it being a mere coincidence are
many millions to one.”
I believe had this young lady, or others thus endowed, had the
training, such as Buchanan, Denton, or other experienced teachers
give their pupils, she would make a high class psychometer.
Rev. Minot J. Savage had a paper in a recent number of The
Arena, on Psychical Research, etc., in which he said—“On a certain
morning I visited a psychometrist. Several experiments were made. I
will relate only one, as a good specimen of what has occurred in my
presence more than once. The lady was not entranced or, so far as I
could see, in any other than her normal condition. I handed her a
letter which I had recently received. She took it, and held it in her
right hand, pressing it close, so as to come into as vital contact with
it as possible. I had taken it out of its envelope, so that she might
touch it more effectively, but it was not unfolded even so much as to
give her an opportunity to see even the name. It was written by a
man whom she had never seen, and of whom she had never heard.
After holding it a moment she said, ‘This man is either a minister or a
lawyer; I cannot tell which. He is a man of a good deal more than
usual intellectual power. And yet he has never met with any success
in life as one would have expected, considering his natural ability.
Something has happened to thwart him and interfere with his
success. At the present time he is suffering with severe illness and
mental depression. He has pain here’ (putting her hand to the back
of her head, at the base of the brain).
 “She said much more, describing the man as well as I could have
done it myself. But I will quote no more, for I wish to let a few salient
points stand in clear outline. These points I will number, for the sake
of clearness:—
1. “She tells me he is a man, though she has not even glanced at
the letter.”
2. “She says he is either a minister or a lawyer; she cannot tell
which. No wonder, for he was both; that is, he had preached for
some years, then he had left the pulpit, studied law, and at this time
was not actively engaged in either profession.”
3. “She speaks of his great natural ability. This was true in a most
marked degree.”
4. “But he had not succeeded as one would have expected. This
again was strikingly true. Certain things had happened—which I do
not feel at liberty to publish—which had broken off his career in the
middle and made his short life seem abortive.”
About eighteen years ago a lady in Swansea sent me a lock of
hair, and asked me to send her my impressions. I did so, which I
remember were not pleasant. I informed her, as near as my
recollection now serves, that the person to whom the hair belonged
was seriously ill. No earthly skill could do anything for him.
Diagnosing the character of the insidious disease which was then
undermining a once powerful and active organisation, I felt
constrained to add he would live six weeks. I held the envelope, with
its contents, in my left hand, and wrote the impressions as they
came with my right. I remember hesitating about sending that letter,
but eventually sent it. The accuracy of my diagnosis, description of
the patient, and the fulfilment of the prophecy as to his death were
substantiated in a Swansea paper, The Bat. The patient was no
other than Captain Hudson, the British master mariner who sailed
the first ship on teetotal principles from a British port, and who
subsequently became one of the most powerful of British
mesmerists. The lady who sent the lock of hair was his wife, and the
lady who contributed the letter to the papers was his widow. Of
similar experiences Mrs. Coates and I have had many.
 HOW TO CULTIVATE THE PSYCHOMETRIC FACULTY.

Class Experiments.—The sensitives are not to be magnetised or

unduly influenced by positive manner and suggestions, but are to sit
in their normal state (and without mental effort or straining to find out
what they have in their hands), and simply give expression to their
impressions—sensations, tastes, etc., if any, and no matter how
strange to them these may be. Let the experimenter or operator
place different metallic substances in their hands, taking care that
these substances are carefully covered with tissue paper or other
light substance, which will help to hide their character, and at the
same time not prevent their influence being imparted, or try them
with medical substances. In those sufficiently sensitive, an emetic
will produce a feeling of nausea. The substance must be put down
before it causes vomiting. Geological specimens can be given—a
shell, a tooth, or tusk. Let the experimenter record the utterances
patiently, and seek confirmation of the description from an
examination of the specimen subsequently. He should not know
what special specimen it is previous to the psychometer’s declared
opinion. Good specimens are best. Thus a fragment of pottery, a
piece of scori, or a bit of brick from, say, Pompeii would present
material from which the psychometrist could glean strong and vivid
impressions.
If a medical man is not satisfied as to the correct pathological
conditions of his patient, he might ask the psychometer to take some
article of the patient in hand, and get, in the sensitive’s own—and
therefore very likely untechnical—language, what he feels and sees
regarding this particular patient’s case. Unsuspected abscesses and
tumours have been correctly pointed out in this way.
In the same way a correct diagnosis of character can be given in
many instances more correctly, more subtle, and penetrating in
detail, than estimates built upon mere external and physical signs of
temperament and cranial contours.
Lay a coin on a polished surface of steel. Breathe upon it, and all
the surface will be affected save the portion on which the coin lay. In
a few minutes neither trace of breathing nor of the coin are likely to
be seen on the surface of the polished steel. Breathe again, and the
hitherto unseen image of the coin is brought to light. In like manner,
everything we touch records invisibly to us that action. Hand your
sensitive a letter which has been written in love or joy, grief or
pungent sorrow, and let them give expression to their sensations. As
the breath brought back the image on the steel, so will the nervous
and the psychic impressionability of the sensitive bring to light the
various emotions which actuated the writers who penned the letters.
Mr. G. H. Lewes says “that he has brushed the surface of the
polished plate with a camel’s-hair brush, yet on breathing upon it the
image of the coin previously laid upon it was distinctly visible.” The
mere casual handling of letters by intermediates will not obliterate
the influence of the original writers; they have permeated the paper
with their influence, so that, if a score or more of psychometrists held
the paper, they would coincide, perhaps not in their language, but in
their descriptions of the originals and the state of their minds while
writing.
The experimenter may help, by asking a few judicious but not
leading questions, to direct and guide the attention of the
psychometrist. The description will be a capital delineation of the
individual who wrote the letter. We have frequently tested the
sincerity of correspondents, real and other friends, by this process. If
the results have sometimes been unpleasant revelations, we have
yet to find in any case that we have been mistaken. How is the
sensitive able to glean so much of the real character of the original?
one is inclined to ask. While writing, sincerity and earnestness leave
a deeper impression than indifference, pretence, or ordinary come-
to-tea politeness. Some letters are instinct with the writer’s identity,
individuality, masculinity, earnestness, and enthusiasm. Others are
lacking in these things, because the writers were devoid of these
qualities, while others vary at different times. The writer writes as his
soul moves him, and the writing expresses his aims and hopes as
they appear to his external consciousness. While writing, his soul
draws his image on the paper, and pictures out thereon his real
thoughts; and when the sensitive gets hold of the letter, outstands
the image of the writer and the imagery of his thoughts. The psychic
consciousness of the psychometer grasps the details and describes
them.
“The strange new science of psychometry” is of profound interest
to all. Psychometers are to be found in every household. The whole
subject is one about which a good deal more could be easily written,
but this must do.
Those who desire to understand psychometry cannot do better
than read up fully the literature of the subject, and those who desire
to practise psychometry may do much to ascertain whether they
possess the faculty in any degree; but all are warned to have nothing
to do with persons who undertake to develop their powers, a self-
evident absurdity.
 CHAPTER V.

Thought-Transference and Telepathy.

Thought-Transference is evidently a phase of psychic perception.
In some respects it bears a greater relation to feeling than sight. It is
distinguished from pure clairvoyance by the result of experiment. For
instance, suppose I had in the Rothesay case designed M. C., the
clairvoyante, should see “a maid in the room, dressed in a black
dress, with neat white collar and cuffs, wearing a nicely-trimmed
white apron, and a white tulle cap with bows and streamers, or that a
black-and-white spotted cat lay comfortably coiled up upon the
hearth-rug, or some other strongly-projected mental image.” Now,
suppose while M. C. was examining the room, she declared she saw
the maid, and described her, or the cat, or other objects projected
from my mind, and described these, then this would be a case of
thought-transference.
There is a distinction between thought-transference and thought-
reading. It is no mere fanciful distinction either. Thought-transference
occurs when the ideas, thoughts, and emotions of one mind are
projected by intense action and received by the sensitive and
impressionable mind of another—awake or asleep is immaterial—so
long as it occurs without pre-arrangement and contact.
Telepathy is a more vivid form of sudden and unexpected thought-
transference, in which the intense thoughts and wishes of one
person, more or less in sympathy, are suddenly transferred to the
consciousness of another. The thoughts transmitted are often so
intense as to be accompanied by the vision of the person, and by the
sound of their voice.
Telepathy bears about the same relation to thought-transference
as “second sight” does to clairvoyance. Thought-transference and
clairvoyance can be cultivated. Not so telepathy and second sight.
They are phenomena, which belong to the unexpected, portents of
the unusual, or sudden revelations of what is, and what is about to
happen. Doubtless, there are conditions more favourable than others
for inception of these. One needs to be “in spirit on the Lord’s day,”
or any day, before telepathic and second sight messages are
secured. Hence it is noticed telepathic revelations mostly come in
the quietude of the evening, just before sleep, between sleep and
waking, and under similar conditions favourable to passivity and
receptivity in the sensitive or percipient.
In thought-reading both operator and sensitive are aware that
something is to be done, and indications, intentional or otherwise,
are given to make the thought-reader find out what is required. More
or less sensitiveness is required in both phases. In telepathy and
thought-transference the psychic elements are in the ascendency; in
thought-reading they may be more or less present, but intention,
sensitiveness, and muscular contact are adequate enough, I think, to
account for the phenomena, as witnessed at public entertainments—
so far, at least, as these entertainments are genuine.
How do we think? what are thoughts? and how are thoughts
transferred? are reasonable questions, and merit more elaborate
solution than is possible in an elementary work like this.
We think in pictures: words are but vehicles of thought. In thought-
transference we can successfully project actions, or a series of
actions, by forming in our minds a scene or picture of what is done
and what is to be reproduced. When, however, we think of a
sentence consisting of few or many words, there is nothing more
difficult to convey. Words belong to our external life here, and are but
arbitrary expressions and signs for what in the internal or soul-life is
flashed telepathically from mind to mind.
Thoughts are things for good or ill, veritable and living realities,
apart from our exterior selves, independent of words. The more
words, often the less thought. Try to teach a child by the slow, dry-
as-dust method of words, and the road to knowledge is hard and
wearisome. Convey the same thoughts by illustrations and
experiments, and the child’s mind at once grasps the ideas we
desire to convey.
 Thoughts are living entities (how poor are words!) which our own
souls have given birth to, or created in the intensity of our love,
wisdom, or passion. One Eastern adept has taught, “A good thought
is perpetuated as an active, beneficent power, an evil one as a
malignant demon. The Hindoo calls this karma. The adept evolves
these shapes consciously; other men throw them off unconsciously.”
How true in our experience! The thoughts of some men blast, while
those of others bless. There is wisdom in thinking deliberately,
intelligently, and therefore conscientiously, not passionately,
impulsively, or carelessly.
In thought-transference the reproduction of exact words and dates
seems to be most difficult. Indeed, the transmission of arbitrary
words and signs is apparently the most difficult. The reason, I
conclude, is, ideas belong to our inner, real, and spiritual life, and
names, words, and dates to our exterior existence. The ideas can be
expressed in the language of the sensitive, according to culture or
the want of it. If the true lineaments of the picture are given, need we
be too exacting as to the special frame surrounding the picture?
Notwithstanding the difficulty in transference and the reading of
the exact words, this has also been frequently done. A very high
state of receptivity and sensitiveness, however, is necessary in the
percipient.
An incident of exact word-reading is related by Gerald Massey, the
distinguished philosopher and poet. Mr. Massey met Mr. Home at the
London terminus just on his (Mr. Massey’s) arrival from
Hertfordshire. Home and he entered into conversation, during which
Home suddenly said “he hoped Mr. Massey would go on with his
poem.”
“What did he mean?” asked Mr. Massey.
“The poem,” replied Home, “you composed four lines of just now in
the train.”
This was surprising to Mr. Massey, who had actually composed,
but had not written, the four lines of a new poem on the journey. Mr.
Massey challenged Mr. Home to repeat the lines, which Home did
word for word.
How are thoughts transferred? No one can positively say. There
are theories enough—the theory of brain-waves and of a universal
impalpable elastic ether, of undulating motions, or other more or less
materialistic hypothesis.[E]
We know there are no psychic phenomena without their
corresponding physical correlatives, and, in this life at least, these
are in thoughts evolved without producing corresponding molecular
changes in the brain.
We notice the human brain is capable of being, and is, acted upon
daily by much less subtle influences than mental impressions. We
can appreciate light impinged upon our cerebral centres at the rate
of millions of undulations, and sound as the result of 20,000 to
30,000 vibrations per second. So sensitives, when in the mesmeric
or psychic states, are readily acted upon, and respond as in thought-
transference to our thoughts and sensations, and veritably read our
minds, because of the rapport or sympathy thus established.
Whether they become percipients of the nerve-vibrations which
escape from our own sensoriums or not, what does it matter if they
can, as they frequently do, read our minds?
“Professor Wheaton,” says Hudson Tuttle, “devised a means of
illustrating sympathy. If a sounding board is placed so as to resound
to all instruments of the orchestra, and connected by a metallic rod
of considerable length with the sounding board of a harp or piano,
the instrument will accurately repeat the notes transmitted.
“The nervous system, in its two-fold relation to the physical and
spiritual being, is inconceivably more finely organised than the most
perfect musical instrument, and is possessed of finer sensitiveness.
“It must not be inferred that all minds are equally receptive. Light
falls on all substances alike, but is very differently affected by each
substance. One class of bodies absorb all but the yellow rays,
another all but the blue, another all but the red, because these
substances are so organised that they respond only to the waves of
the colours reflected.”
All persons do not hear alike. They receive certain sounds and are
deaf to all others, although the sound-waves strike all tympanums
alike. All persons do not see alike. Some perceive colours, others
cannot distinguish between one colour and another, or can only see
the more striking colours—fineness of shade they do not perceive.
So there are individuals who cannot receive mental impressions,
unless, indeed, they are conveyed in the baldest and most esoteric
manner. In a word to convey and receive impressions they must be
sent along the line of the least resistance, that of true sympathy.
There must be one mind adequate to the projection, and another
mind sufficiently sensitive to receive and record the thoughts
projected.

TRANSFERENCE OF TASTE IN THE MESMERIC STATE.

The operator will slowly eat or taste half-a-dozen lozenges or

sweets of different flavours, and the subject or sensitive most in
sympathy with him will also in imagination eat of and describe the
taste of the various sweets, concerning which he has no other
knowledge than the thoughts of eating and tasting, which are
transmitted to him from the brain of the operator. The mere eating of
the lozenges by the operator, without his being fully aware of the
fact, will deepen the impression on the operator’s mind, and help to
concentrate his energies for the transmission of his ideas or mental
suggestions to his subject.
A step or two further and we find with greater sensitiveness the
sensitives can read the thoughts of the operator, whether the
thoughts were transmitted intentionally or not.
“We are compelled (says Dr. Hands) to acknowledge that certain
emanating undulations from the sensorium can generate different
series of thoughts, and that the trembling organisation, or parts of it,
can, by flinging or throwing off distinct or particular pulsatory waves,
inoculate or produce like vibrations in another person’s brain, making
up in it identical thoughts, followed by like feelings, and often in this
way, perhaps, capable of inciting, through sympathy, like enactments
of deeds and pursuits.”

THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE IN DREAMS.

The following interesting letter appeared in The Phrenological

Magazine (p. 260, April, 1890), and as I know of the bona-fides of
the writer, I have much pleasure in reproducing it:—
“Dear Sir,—This morning, at a little before four o’clock, I awoke
as the outcome of great mental distress and grief through which I
had just passed in a dream, my body trembling and in a cold
perspiration. I had been walking with my little boy, aged five and a
half years, and some friends. A heavy rain overtaking us, we stood
up for shelter; and venturing forth into a maze of streets, I missed my
two friends, who, threading among the people, had turned into a side
street without my noticing. Looking for them, my boy slipped from
me, and was lost in the crowd. I became bewildered by the strange
labyrinth of streets and turnings, and quickly taking one of them
which gave an elevated position, I looked down on the many
windings, but could nowhere see my boy. It was to me an unknown
locality, and, running down among the people, I was soon sobbing
aloud in my distress, and calling out the name of the child, when I
awoke. With wakefulness came a sense of relief and thankfulness.
Gladly realising that the whole was only a dream, and still scarcely
awake, I was startled by a cry of terror and pain from an adjoining
bedroom—such a cry as could not be left unheeded. It came from
the same child, and pierced me with a distinct sense of pain. I was
immediately by his side. My voice calmed him. ‘I thought I was lost’
was all he could say, and doubtless he was soon composed and
asleep again. To me the coincidence was too remarkable and
without parallel in my own experience. Later on, at breakfast, the
child gave further his dream that he had been out with me and was
lost. I am only familiar with such things in my reading. Mr. Coates’s
article in last month’s Phrenological Magazine (page 143) mentions
that, ‘when the Prince Imperial died from assegai thrusts in Zululand,
his mother in England felt the intensity of his thoughts at the time, felt
the savage lance pierce her own side, and knew or felt at the time
that she was childless.’ But I am not of the spirituelle type, with only
a thin parchment separation between this life of realities and the
great beyond, of those who, privileged to live in close touch with the
future, are the subjects of premonitions and warnings. My spirituality
4 to 5 and reflectives 6 point rather the other way, but I shall,
nevertheless, hold tight to the lad. What is the underlying cause of
the coincidence? Which of the two minds influenced the other, if
either?—Yours truly,
“G. Cox.
“16 Bramfield Road,
Wandsworth Common, April 20, 1890.”
In this case of thought-transference, I am inclined to the opinion
that the father’s mind influenced that of the boy, the son being the
more sensitive of the two. Mr. Cox dreamt an ordinary but pretty vivid
dream, which aroused from its nature vivid and intense anxiety on
his part. A similar train of thought was awakened in the child. If
thought-transference occurs in waking life, why not in sleep, when,
as abundant telepathic instances testify, the phenomenon is of most
frequent occurrence.

THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE AT SEA.

The percipient was Captain G. A. Johnson, of the schooner

“Augusta H. Johnson.” He had sailed from Quero for home. On the
voyage he encountered a terrible hurricane. On the second day he
saw a disabled brig, and near by a barque. He was anxious to reach
home, and, thinking the barque would assist the brig, continued on.
But the impression came that he must turn back and board the
brig. He could not shake it off, and at last he, with four men, boarded
the brig in a dory. He found her deserted, and made sail in her. After
a time they saw an object ahead, appearing like a man on a cake of
ice. The dory was again manned, and set to the rescue. It proved to
be the mate of the barque “Leawood” clinging to the bottom of an
overturned boat, which, being white, appeared in the distance as ice.
 The captain’s sensitiveness may have been aroused by the
exhaustion of so much wakefulness and care during the length of the
storm, the sight of the derelict and deserted brig; at the same time
the premonitions were opposed to his own desire and anxiety to get
home.

THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE FROM THE DYING TO THE LIVING IN DREAM.

The following, by E. Ede, M.D., of Guilford (J.S.P.R., July, 1882):—

“Lady G. and her sister had been spending the evening with their
mother, who was in her usual health and spirits when they left her. In
the middle of the night the sister awoke in a fright, and said to her
husband, ‘I must go to my mother at once; do order the carriage. I
am sure she is ill.’ The husband, after trying in vain to convince his
wife that it was only a fancy, ordered the carriage. As she was
approaching the house, where two roads met, she saw lady G.’s
carriage. When they met, each asked the other why she was there.
The same reply was made by both—‘I could not sleep, feeling sure
my mother was ill, and so I came to see.’ As they came in sight, they
saw their mother’s confidential maid at the door, who told them when
they arrived that their mother had taken suddenly ill, and was dying,
and had expressed an earnest wish to see her daughters.”
The percipients having been so lately in company and sympathy
with their mother possibly rendered them more susceptible to her
influence.

THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE FROM THE DEAD (?) TO THE LIVING IN DREAM.

Related by Mr. Myers, page 208, Proceedings S.P.R., July, 1892:

—
“About March, 1857, Mrs. Mennier, in England, dreamt that she
saw her brother, whose whereabouts she did not know, standing
headless at the foot of the bed with his head lying in a coffin by his
side. The dream was at once mentioned. It afterwards appeared that
at about the time the head of the brother seen, Mr. Wellington, was
actually cut off by the Chinese at Sarawak.” On this case, Mr.
Gurney remarks—“This dream, if it is to be telepathically explained,
must apparently have been due to the last flash of thought in the
brother’s consciousness. It may seem strange that a definite picture
of his mode of death should present itself to a man in the instant of
receiving an unexpected and fatal blow; but, as Hobbes said,
‘Thought is quick.’ The coffin, at any rate, may be taken as an item of
death-imagery supplied by the dreamer’s mind.”
“We have now, however,” says Mr. Myers, “seen a letter from Sir
James Brookes (Rajah of Sarawak), and an extract from the Straits
Times of March 21st, 1857, in the (London) Times for April 29th,
1857, which makes it, I think, quite conceivable that the dream was a
reflection of knowledge acquired after death, and the head on the
coffin had a distinct meaning.” Sir James Brookes says:—“Poor
Wellington’s remains were consumed [by the Chinese]; his head,
borne off in triumph, alone attesting his previous murder.” The Straits
Times says:—“The head was given up on the following day. The
head, therefore, and the head alone, must have been buried by Mr.
Wellington’s friends; and its appearance in the dream on the coffin,
with a headless body standing beside it, is a coincidence even more
significant than the facts which Mr. Gurney had before him when he
wrote.”
The transmission of thought from a spirit discarnate to one
incarnate, whose body was asleep, should not be esteemed
impossible. Abundant instances, equally well substantiated, might be
recorded did space permit.

THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE IN PRAYER.

This may be a common experience, but only once in my life have I

had conscious knowledge of anything so remarkable. For some
years before devoting my attention to these subjects, I resided in
Liverpool, and had been a member of the Zion Methodist Church, or
Chapel, in Everton, and in time was duly placed on the local
preachers’ plan. In this capacity I became acquainted with a worthy
old man—a chapel-keeper, who looked after the meeting house
situated in —— street. He had been an old soldier, and possessed
something of the faith of the Roman centurion. Poor in the things of
this world, he was rich in the sublimity of his love to God and the
nobility and purity of his life. I never think of “Old Daddy Walker” but
his character and this incident comes to my mind, viz.:—One
morning I was hurrying down West Derby Road to business, and,
indeed had got halfway down Brunswick Road, when I commenced
to think about old Walker (I had not seen or thought of him for some
months). I attempted to throw aside my impressions, as passing
thoughts. No use. I became worried about him, and was asking
myself questions. “Was he ill?” “Maybe, he is in want?” “I think I will
hurry back and see?” I had not much time to spare. It would
consume fully twenty minutes to walk back. After hesitating, I went
up Brunswick Road and up West Derby Road, and to —— Street,
and tapped at the door of his house. There was no response. The
street door was slightly ajar. I went in, and found the old pair on their
knees in the kitchen. He was engaged in earnest prayer. After kindly
salutations, I apologised for intruding, and told him, as I went to
business, “I had been bothered about him in my mind, and did not
feel satisfied until I had seen him, and knew the truth.” He told me,
as near as I can recollect, “He was at his last extremity. There was
no food or fuel in the house, he had no money, and he had been
putting the whole case before the Lord.” I had half a sovereign about
me, which I had taken out of the house for an entirely different
purpose. This I gave to him. The old man, rubbing a tear from his
eye, looking at his wife, said: “Mary, don’t thee doubt the Lord
anymore. I said He would help, and He has given me what I asked
for.” Old Walker went on to explain, not only his bad fix, but that he
had no money to buy firewood with. He meant that he bought up old
wood and tar-barrels, which he cut up into lengths and made into
bundles, and sold for firewood; and that he had asked the Lord for
ten shillings, as he wanted that sum to buy a certain lot which could
be obtained for that amount. The old man obtained what he asked
for. He believed the Lord had answered his prayer.

THOUGHT TRANSMISSION IN PRAYER.

 Since writing the above, the following came under my notice. In
the J.S.P.R., May, 1885, Dr. Joseph Smith, Warrington, England,
says:—
“I was sitting one evening reading, when a voice came to me,
saying: ‘Send a loaf to James Grady’s.’ I continued reading, and the
voice continued with greater emphasis, and this time it was
accompanied with an irresistible impulse to get up. I obeyed, and
went into the village and bought a loaf of bread, and, seeing a lad at
the shop door, I asked him if he knew James Grady. He said he did,
so I bade him carry it and say a gentleman sent it. Mrs. Grady was a
member of my class, and I went next morning to see what came of it,
when she told me a strange thing happened to her last night. She
said she wished to put the children to bed, they began to cry for want
of food, and she had nothing to give them. She then went to prayer,
to ask God to give them something. Soon after which the lad came
to the door with the loaf. I calculated, on inquiry, that the prayer and
the voice I heard exactly coincided in point of time.”
“More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of.”
Those who know anything of Methodism, will know this. The
Methodists have a profound faith in prayer, and also there is a very
close relationship between a class-leader and his members. Dr.
Smith was, therefore, all the more likely to be the percipient of the
woman’s earnest and intense prayer to God to feed her hungry
children. The Infinite must have an infinite variety of ways of fulfilling
His own purposes. Is it unreasonable to suppose that prayer to Him
may not be answered indirectly “through means”? and that thought-
transference, as in this instance, may be one of the means? If not,
why not?
Charitable institutions are maintained; orphans saved, reared, and
educated; missions of mercy organised, and the necessary means
found by the agency of prayer. Beside “the angels,” in That Sphere
just beyond the ken of the physical, may not our waves of thought,
projected by prayer, be impinged upon, and directly affect
susceptible minds in this world, by directing their attention to those
works of faith and goodness? Prayer is the language of love, and the
outcome of true helplessness and need. A praying man is an earnest
man. In prayer thoughts are things—bread upon the waters.

THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE IN DISTRESS.

I withhold the names for family reasons. Mr. —— had been in

business in Glasgow for nearly thirty years, and, from comparatively
small beginnings, had been very successful. Latterly, he and his
family resided in ——, a suburb of Glasgow. Both in the city and in
this district Mr. —— was very much respected, being a church
member and holding office in —— Free Church. For some time Mr.
—— had been ailing, and his medical attendant advised him to take
a sea voyage—a thorough change, etc. In compliance with this
advice, he took a trip up the Mediterranean. Miss ——, a distant
relative of his, had been visiting Glasgow, and, being on terms of
intimacy with the family, knew of his departure from Glasgow. About
two weeks after he left, she also left Glasgow for Edinburgh. While in
the train for Edinburgh, she was overcome with great anxiety for Mrs.
——, his wife. Unable to shake the feeling off, instead of going to
Edinburgh, she actually got out of the train halfway, at Falkirk, and
took the next train back to Glasgow, and went to her friend’s house,
whom she found in great distress. Mrs. —— had, about the time
Miss —— became distressed in the train, received word that her
husband was found dead (having committed suicide) in his berth on
the steamer at Constantinople. The state of mind of the newly-made
widow re-acted on that of Miss ——. As Miss —— was not only a
dear friend, but was noted for her earnest piety, the widow at once
earnestly desired to see her. When last these two friends saw each
other, everything seemed to contribute to happiness and comfort.
Mrs. —— was looking forward hopefully for the return of her
husband, restored in health, to herself and children.

THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE IN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE.

Whether thought-transference is a “relic of a decaying faculty,” or

the “germ of a new and fruitful sense,” daily experience in the lives of
most furnish abundant evidence of the existence of such a power.
My own life has supplied me with abundant evidence of the fact. It is
a common occurrence with us for either my wife or I to utter or give
expression to the thoughts which, for the time being, occupied the
conscious plane in the other. It is possible there may have been, as
there has been in some instances, some half phrase uttered or
manner shown, which in the one have aroused the thoughts
expressed by the other.
It has been our habit for several years to stay at Rothesay during
the summer season. As an instance of thought-transference quite
common in our experience;—On Saturday, 1st October, 1892, I went
to the Revision Court at the Town Hall to hear registration disputes
settled between Tory and Gladstonian lawyers. Finding nothing to
interest me, I entered into conversation with Mr. Thompson, jeweller
and hardware merchant, whom I met in the Court, and went with him
to his shop in Montague Street, Rothesay. Standing at his door a
short time, I noticed a solitary pair of shamrock earrings, composed
of crystal brilliants and gold, lying on a tray, with a number of other
earrings, in one of the windows. I inquired the price, as I felt sure
Mrs. Coates would be pleased with them. They were packed up in a
neat box, and I took them home. At dinner, I gave the box to my wife,
who said, “What is this, papa?”
“Open and see,” I replied.
Animated with a little curiosity, she did, and, as soon as she saw
the earrings, said, “Thompson’s! Well, papa, that is funny. James
(my little son) and I stood at Thompson’s window last night, and I
admired these earrings. I thought them so neat, and that they would
match my brooch. I thought I would like to have them, and then I
thought to myself, no; I will not spend the money. I pointed them out
to James, and said to him, I am sure if papa saw them, he would buy
them—and here you have brought them home. I cannot tell you how
much I prize them.”
My little boy said, “Thought-reading again, papa!” and, with a good
laugh, we proceeded to discuss our dinner. Mrs. Coates had not