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Both you and I, being free from prejudice, admit that Miss original: "Mlle." Z. saw and perceived the presence of her lover at the critical moment of his departure from this world. Hundreds of examples of the same kind exist. However, our interpretations differ. You only see brain activity original: "a cerebral action" of a dying person. I see a spiritual original: "psychic" action.

(I asked myself whether the narrator might have seen the newspaper the night before without remembering it, and whether the association of ideas had produced her dream; but she assures me it was only the next day that she read the paper. That theory original: "hypothesis" must, therefore, be excluded. There had been a real communication between the two beings.)

It is, of course, always difficult to distinguish between the work which belongs to the spirit or the soul and that which belongs to the brain. In our assessments original: "appreciations" and judgments, we are naturally guided by the inner feeling produced in us by the discussion of these occurrences original: "phenomena". Now, do we not have in this case what is essentially a manifestation of the spirit? Two theories original: "hypotheses" present themselves. Either the lover, as indicated by the narrative, was already dead when he acted this way, or he was still alive, and at the moment of death this man thought of that woman—his friend from happier times original: "sunnier days"—and felt a regret, a remorse perhaps, and possibly a hope for the afterlife original: "Beyond". That telepathic communication was perhaps not noticed original: "perceived" at once during the daily routine, but was delayed original: "postponed" to the hours of sleep and tranquility. It was not, of course, a case of a ghost original: "phantom" being physically moved from one city to another. It was a mental transmission, for which wireless telegraphy wireless telegraphy: the early form of radio communication, using radio waves to send Morse code, which was a cutting-edge scientific concept at the time provides us a physical comparison original: "image". The distance was 62 miles, and we know that such a distance does not matter original: "count".

The mental communication took the form de-