(The final chapter of the revised (1930) edition)

ThThe Psychic Question – World Journeys – Physical Breakdown – End of the Slater Case – Summing up.

It is hardly fair to the unsuspecting reader to lure him so far and then to precipitate him into a fifinal chapter of psychic propaganda. Let me, therefore, confifine myself to saying that the studies which have now intermittttently occupied my mind for over forty years, culminated at the time of the war, in giving me an absolute conviction that the change of vibration which we call death did not destroy our personality and that communication was still possible. ThThis I have tested out to such an extent that I say with a full sense of responsibility and pledging my word of honour upon my utterance, that I know it to be true. Some of the evidence upon which my knowledge is founded is to be found in several books which are mentioned later in this chapter. I will only record the fact that it was clear to me that this conclusion was a matter of enormous importance, giving the world a tremendous and indeed an infallible weapon in its fight against the depressing doctrine of materialism and annihilation.