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June 20th, 1884. My impression with regard to my brother's danger is the only one I ever remember having. I am afraid I cannot possibly remember to whom I mentioned my fears at the time, as I was at college, and there were so many I might have told. § 4. We may now pass to a group of these cases in which the primary element of the emotional impression is a sense of being wanted — an impulse to go somewhere or do something. The first example is from the Rev. E. D. Banister, of Whitechapel Vicarage, Preston. November 12th, 1885. (79) My father on the day of his death had gone out of the house about 2.30 p.m., to have his usual afternoon stroll in the garden and fields. He had not been absent more than 7 or 8 minutes when, as I was talking to my wife and sister, I was seized with a very urgent desire to go to him. (The conversation related to a visit which we proposed to pay that afternoon to a neighbour, and no allusion was made to my father.) The feeling that I ought to go and see him came upon me with irresistible force. I insisted upon all in the house going out to find my father. I was remonstrated with — my very anxiety seeming so unreasonable. My father's afternoon stroll was a regular habit of life in fine 284 EMOTIONAL AND MOTOR EFFECTS. [chap. weather, and I had no reason to give why on that particular occasion I must insist on his being found. Search was made, and it was my sad lot to find him dead in the field, in a place which, according to the route he ordinarily adopted, he would have reached about 7 or 8 minutes after leaving the house. My idea is that when he felt the stroke of death coming upon him he earnestly desired to see me, and that, by the operation of certain psychical laws, the desire was communicated to me.