text: " If the mesmerized can project and that apparently without effort their minds into the minds of others--read their thoughts; if they can see and tell what is going on hundreds of miles off on the sea and on distant lands alike; if they can at remote distances _influence_ others with a sense of their presence--they possess a power so very similar to that ascribed in some extraordinary cases to persons who in a dying state have declared that they have been absent and conversed with individuals dear to them in distant countries and whose presence has been recognised at those very times by the persons so said to be visited that I do not see how they can be referable to different original phenomena