She is now present with you in spirit, though her body be many miles distant.

These things often happen.

They startle us by their strangeness, but are as much dependent on laws of the mind as bodily nearness is dependent on the laws of matter." "You think so ?" Mr.Delancy looked at his young companion curiously.
"Yes, I think so." The old man shook his head.

"Ingenious, but not satisfactory." "You will admit," said Rose, "that as to our minds we may be present in any part of the world, and in an instant of time, though our bodies move not." "Our thought may be," replied Mr.Delancy.

"Or, in better words, the eyes of our minds may be; for it is the eyes that see objects," said Rose.
"Well; say the eyes of our minds, then." "We cannot see objects in London, for instance, with our bodily eyes unless our bodies be in London ?" resumed Rose.
"Of course not." "Nor with our mental eyes, unless our spirits be there." Mr.Delancy looked down thoughtfully.
"It must be true, then, that our thought of any one brings us present to that individual, and that such presence is often recognized." "That is pushing the argument too far." "I think not.