SPIRITUALISM AND MATERIALISM

dream. I saw the stairs of the house where the general lived (7, Cité Vaneau). He appeared leaning on the handrail of the first-floor landing. He descended, came to me, and kissed me on the forehead. His lips were so cold that the touch woke me up. I then saw distinctly in the middle of the room, by the light of the street lamp, the fine, tall outline of the general as it receded. I was not asleep, as I heard eleven o'clock strike on the Lycée Henri IV A prestigious and historic secondary school in Paris and counted the strokes. I could not get back to sleep, and the cold impression of the lips of our old friend remained on my forehead all night. In the morning, my first words to my mother were: "We shall hear some news of General de Cossigny; I saw him last night."

A few minutes afterward, my father saw in the newspaper the news of the death of his old comrade, which happened the previous evening as the result of a fall downstairs. None of us had seen the paper beforehand.

JEAN DREUILHE.
36, RUE DES BOULANGERS, PARIS.

As in the previous case, and all similar ones, it is difficult to deny that the spirit sees at a distance. It is neither the eye, nor the retina, nor the optic nerve, nor the brain that performs this sight.

You must also have heard of the case of Marshal Serrano Francisco Serrano (1810–1885), a Spanish marshal and statesman who served as Prime Minister and Regent of Spain, as told by his wife:

For twelve long months, a serious illness original: "malady", which eventually proved fatal, weakened original: "undermined" the life of my husband. Feeling that the end was near, his nephew, General Lopez Dominguez, went to the Prime Minister, Señor Canovas, to obtain permission to bury Serrano in a church like the other Marshals.

The King, then at the Prado The Royal Palace of El Pardo, a residence of the Spanish Royal Family near Madrid, refused the request of General Lopez Dominguez. But he added that he would prolong his stay in the royal estate original: "demesne" so that his presence in Madrid should not hinder the rendering of military honors original: "honours" due to the rank of the dead Marshal and to his place in the army.