Conan Doyle, who advised the Movement to make its peace with the Christians, was also palpably unsound. But to return to Arthur Findlay. He justified the critical attention he gave to Christianity by blaming it for the general rejection of Spiritualism by the British people. If that was true in 1930, it is doubtful if it can explain the attitude of the present godless generation. It is the wrong target.
Scientists have far more influence.
One final irony. In my youth the world was divided into two camps. I am not here referring to the struggle between communism and capitalism, but to the Cold War between UK Spiritualists and psychical researchers. This had been in progress for a century, since the resignation of the Spiritualist leader Stainton Moses from the SPR in 1886. Only a few people, like Charles Drayton Thomas, had operated in both communities.