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spite of both her own and her father’s belief that she did so, I think it more probable that she did not, and that the letter of June 5th was really the first letter; as the way in which the fact of the vision is there mentioned does not suggest that it has been mentioned before. The idea that letters have crossed, in a case of this kind, is a likely first dereliction from perfect accuracy. The direction in which imagination and failure of memory gradually tend is just this, of neatening the facts, and supplementing the essential point by details which enhance its interest. Of course it is to be regretted that human memory is not infallible, and that time acts in any way as a distorting medium. But it is very important to avoid confounding the natural growths on the margin (so to speak) of a telepathic record with the vital point at its centre, or concluding that the latter is as likely to be unconsciously invented as the former. Supposing the mistake which I here think probable to have been really made, the substance of the case is not affected. Having specially observed the date, the percipient was likely to retain it correctly for the short period before hearing of the death; and her ability at that time to identify it could not be seriously impugned on the ground of a subsequent mistake as to the date of her first writing home. We should note, too, that in its essentials the case is a specially unlikely one (even apart from the corroborative testimony) to have been the work of imagination; as the percipient was not personally attached to the lady who died, nor had she been thinking about her.
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