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1892) as affecting a stranger at the death of Lord Tennyson, and a somewhat similar instance is recorded…

Date of account: Published 1894
Source: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Reference: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy · selected passage 125
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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1892) as affecting a stranger at the death of Lord Tennyson, and a somewhat similar instance is recorded (Journal, May 1892) in connection with the death of General the Hon

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(_Journal S.P.R._, Nov. 1892) as affecting a stranger at the death of Lord Tennyson, and a somewhat similar instance is recorded (_Journal_, May 1892) in connection with the death of General the Hon. Sir Leicester Smyth. The Head-master of a Grammar School in Leicester saw in a vision the irruption of water into the Thames Tunnel (_Phantasms, loc. cit._). In all these cases, if we accept the incidents as telepathic, they recall, as Mr. Gurney remarks, "the Greek notion of φήμη, the Rumour which spreads from some unknown source, and far outstrips all known means of transport." The evidence so far adduced, however, is by no means sufficient to establish any such conclusion.

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