On Clairvoyance and Prevision
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lected fall short of redeeming their pledge. Until we meet with records of prophetic visions which are at least on the same evidential level as the narratives quoted say in Chapter VI., and as much more numerous and more impressive than those narratives as the faculty which they purport to demonstrate is more remote than telepathy from mundane analogies, we can but regard these dream-stories which we have been considering as the sports of chance or the distorted mirage of our own hopes and fears. Questioning Leuconbe must still question in vain. It does not yet appear that there are Babylonish numbers or Wizard's spells, visions by day or dreams by night, which can reveal to her or us the hidden things of fate.
