Published in 1920 | 376 pages | PDF reader required
INTRODUCTION
Before venturing to offer a slight comment upon Mrs. Sewall's strange manuscript, the writer feels that to make clear his own neutral views upon the subject of "psychic phenomena" might be well in point. Therefore, they may be assembled, from a previous expression of them, to stand as follows:
We are dwelling in the night. To the man of ten thousand years hence, who will not be able to distinguish through his archaeological researches which of the forgotten tribes fought the Great War that left the long line of bones in the subsoil from the Channel to the Alps to that enlightened modern we shall seem to have been formless gropers in the dusk of ignorance.
We do not really believe it, but that man of ten thousand years hence is actually going to live and speculate about us and study the dust heaps which we shall leave. He will see that we were dwellers in the night in the unknown.
All this horror of death is horror of the unknown. Men face it magnificently. What would this mean: that they should face it knowing definitely what they face? …
