We hold our position in the East, certainly; but even there we have not more than one in two hundred--so the statistics say--and we are scattered.

In Italy?
Well, we have Rome again to ourselves, but nothing else; here, we have Ireland altogether and perhaps one in sixty of England, Wales and Scotland; but we had one in forty seventy years ago.
Then there is the enormous progress of psychology--all clean against us for at least a century.

First, you see, there was Materialism, pure and simple that failed more or less--it was too crude--until psychology came to the rescue.

Now psychology claims all the rest of the ground; and the supernatural sense seems accounted for.

That's the claim.