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This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.

There would be side-conclusions to be drawn, of course ; ;

such capacities are impressive evidence pointing to a conception of the human being which does not appear in the accounts of biologists and organic evolutionists ; ;

but the basic puzzles of existence would still be puzzling, and we should still have to work out the sort of problems we plan to discuss in this article.