Professor Pio Foa.

The Ablest Conjurors Baffled.

Dr. Pio Foa, Professor of Pathological Anatomy in the University of Turin, Director of the Anatomical Museum and General Secretary of the Academy of Sciences in Turin, gave an address in the aristocratic Cardigan Theatre at Turin in March, 1907, on mediumistic phenomena, and in a comprehensive review of the seances held with Paladino declared that able conjurors had admitted that these phenomena could not be explained by trickery.

He declines at the present juncture to definitely accept the spiritistic hypothesis and cautiously adds—

"For the present let us preserve an attitude of quiet waiting in the face of superlative facts, which we have not had the opportunity to verify, such as the dematerialisation and the re-materialisation of bodies. Beyond what the eye can see, what the ears can hear, what the hands can touch, beyond the world of taste and smell and of all the other senses, there exists a world invisible, inaudible, impalpable, of which we only know a few manifestations. A gleam of light from that invisible world has been brought to us by the discovery of the X Rays, of which we only know the effects. . . Let us part with peace in mind and soul, with entire confidence in the progress of Science, to which appertains at the present time the largest share in the material and spiritual direction of humanity,"