The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 165: what you’re looking at

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158 A Medical Student’s Love. was twenty-five during the first term. These studies had resulted in my becoming a firm believer in the theory that one mind can influence another, no matter how great the distance. “The night after the funeral of Edith I went to my room and sat down to make an experiment wilder and weirder than any I had ever read. “It was an attempt to bring to me, by the exercise of my will power, the spirit of my loved one, if such a thing were possible. In life we had been immeasurably di- vided, but_in that new world to which she had gone the conditions which had bound us would no longer exist; she would know that I loved her, and, at least, would not be angry, even if she cared nothing for me. So I reasoned. : “Now you are thinking of me as a spiritualist, but I am not and never was. I! am simply a firm believer in the power of mind over mind—and matter. And that night I merely desired to bring into play the principles that would have been used in working upon a living person. If I could influence one in the flesh, why could I not influence one who would be more sensitive because freed from the body? “The first thing to be done in my experiment was to find my loved one’s soul. I leaned back in my chair and began a mental search, but it seemed as if my mind was strangely refractory. I could not keep it from the sad events of the day. Again I saw the coffin in the church as the burial service was sung, and followed it step by Gomicbook (E(0)