； it set up a laboratory； and printed grave reports。 Day by day its sphere widened。 Hypnotism brought matter for the marvel… mongers； and there followed a long procession of words in limping Greek……a little difficult till practice had made perfect。 Another fortunate terminologist hit upon the word 〃psychical〃……the P might be sounded or not； according to the taste and fancy of the pronouncer……and the fashionable children of a scientific age were thoroughly at ease。 〃There MUST be something； you know； one always felt that there MUST be something。〃 And now； if one may judge from what one reads； psychical 〃science〃 is fortably joining hands with the sorcery of the Middle Ages。 It is said to be a lucrative moment for wizards that peep and that mutter。 If the law against fortune…telling were as strictly enforced in the polite world as it occasionally is in slums and hamlets； we should have a merry time。 But it is difficult to prosecute a Professor of Telepathy……and how he would wele the advertisement！
Of course I know very well that all that make use of these words are not in one and the same category。 There is a study of the human mind； in health and in disease； which calls for as much respect as any other study conscientiously and capably pursued； that it lends occasion to fribbles and knaves is no argument against any honest tendency of thought。 Men whom one cannot but esteem are deeply engaged in psychical investigations； and have convinced themselves that they are b