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74 4.10; but she was some time on the ground waiting until the horse was disengaged, etc. 1em

Archdeacon Bruce adds later:

May 20th, 1893.

I think I stated the fact that the impression of danger to Mrs. Bruce was only momentary—it passed at once—and it was only when I heard of the accident that I recalled the impression. I did not therefore go home expecting to ﬁnd that anything had happened. 1em

Mrs. Bruce writes:

In this case, it will be noticed, the pictorial advertisement appears to have played an analogous part to the crystal in a crystal vision.

We have a few other examples in which the impulse has led directly to action—prayer, the taking of a journey, etc. M. Flammarion in his book, L' Inconnu et les problémes psychiques, quotes a curious case. The narrator, after explaining that in childhood he was "encore un peu dévot," and in the habit of saying his prayers nightly, relates that one evening, when twelve years of age, he prayed for his grandmother with unusual fervour, and on closing his eyes had a vision of that relative. The next day he learned that his grandmother had died at that hour, The effect of that experience on its