Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-03
ExrrKrMr>rAL PSYCHOLOGY.
An International Csngr~.. k..emaled 4,
London to Compare Results.

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the Nance Of the gentlemen Who have eathered
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"''Ni's Tvs second uienihAi sneeiing.
nader the presidency OF Prof. Henry Sidgxick
The members were on Monday vcry as.oron.lv
welcomed rs, Pr, t,f.h-.,, =. 49, !, -.
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- 80 N'''''N"s was hone 70
sh"N uat Nne business was serious indeed.
lhe hst OF foreign visitors was headed by ~ha,
the chairman Justly Called .'the grent nam. %
Helrnhol,y ana ,r-l,aoa - =. = 4,
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'Ns' H"n frshoe' ".
oruber from fsoumAnla. and Dr. Alexander
Balm, who used formerly 60 dispense ihe most
| hard headed scotch logic 10 the youth ~ Ah.--
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FROM men IKE there s not natural 10 ex-
pect anything entertaining, nor should Ne eA-
/ pect IL IL were not possessed with a.. id..
that SOMEHOW or other experimental t,svchol-
ogy would be brought round % gkosts Tbre.
wears ago there was something more than /.
suggestion OF them In the proc..dinrs 81 IN.
congress and Prof. SldgN wick . apenins s.ll-..s
gave a definition Of experimental uhich
seemed constructed 50 90 admit thefn TAI.
great thing In congress 20 make your onalif-
cations strict enough. but not too strift Iht.
Is so with regard not only TO the pefsoas en-
titled 20 be present but 70 the subjects entitled
"a be discussed. Mr.. Sidgwick aimel Al tht.
! golden mean. aud II his rendering Of she word
was not quite what IL understood hv II IN most
branches OF science IL was permis-ibly asar n
comes TO this, that the kind oi psrcholorr
which the congress Processes Is the ne fcholosy
of observation. conducted for a sies ial pnr-
pose. though not always under artificial conAi-
lions
This observation is very often self .,h-erva-
ton. very often II Is the ohser, alton II ahpor-
/ NAL experiences Ana of abnormal r.f,a
Clearly this leaves plenty OF room for ebo-t
fstories and ghost stories We shall have ".
/ hope that they will lie new ones ,ar, rnr.-
terious, very creepy" and very diricuit 20 ca
plain. Rats, owls and the Wind IN the chimney
are out Of date. We eNpect from A s,nrr,.-.
OF which one Of the secretarie. is Mr.. rrederic
Myers. something good deal more imtalpahlr
/ something that has 10 do with volitiou -Ilce,.
/ ton. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, psvchie force ana
similar entities. Whether. when phenomena
have been carefully translated info fheir
equivalents in phases Of that nature. science Ina.
got much further. is a question on uhich We
| will not hazard an opinion. Prot,sillv IN.
congress would decide in one way and the rude
world would decide in another.
On the first day the congress did not arriv.
az anything ghostly. but il dealt with Var,ous
matters that are extremely curious perhau.
the most 10 IL that which was dealt with nv
Prof. Gruber under the strange-souudihg name
OF 'colored Addition" and certainly The record
Is worth notice IL only for the evidence n OiVc.
Of the zeal Of the modern observer Every one
has met instances Of persons who declare that
to them the field Of one sense overlaps 90 TO
speak. that Of another; tina: didereut noises
suggest different coors. aud 80 forth. Prof
Gruber some years ago set himself g. invest-
gate this matter. and his paper a. the former
congress created 30 much interest that he has
gone ON with his researches ever since. He de-
clares that he has found in the persoas whom
he has observed a number OF mysterisus ssso-
Citations, not only between sounds and colors
but between sight and smell sound and taste
sight and taste. and even an association between
color and temperature. His subjects" think
that some sounds IRE red or yellow, and also
that some tastes correspond 20 = special degree
Of muscular exertion.
The whole question here is obviouss one OF
the degree 20 which accurate obseTsation Is
possible. how far the subject L. truthfullr re-
porting his segsations and experiences. and 70
! what extent the sensations 60. We hope that
! Mr.. Grubers researches will be published in
extenso, and supplemented by ANYTHING that
Mr.. Francis Gallon has 20 tell us There IL
room. also, for q great deal more Information
than We already possess on that subject which
seems to be the favorite one with the eongres.
and Its visitors. the subject Of hypnofi-m and
suggestion. The school OF Nancy" ~ Il j.
the fashion 20 call the followers OF DR. sebsult
has collected a number Of verv e1trnsriinnrv
experiences. and some of them we're related
yesterday TO the pleasurable wonder 81 The
audience. But it WIS an Englishusan, pr
Bramwell Of Goole. who made the most rsmsrk-
able statements and lie had taken the p-eoau-
| tion 10 bring his ssubi,ctss With h,r. ., a.,
pertinent
lie went indeed curiouslv near the ola ner-
forrnances OF the professional mt~petS-t. hui
whereas the mesmerist uses his power senerslly
for some foolish purpose. Or Brnmwei cure. .
woman of short sight by telling her she can
read perfectly well and repeatedly sends ma
| tients 20 a dentist carving with them !. xrit,en
order not TO feel pain, which thew read when
they sit down in the dentists chair''-and. ".
presume, do not feel pain accordingly. Tb,.
| must be a very valuable power. and eYer,boly
must wish that it were a little moro widely
spread among our doctors A will ne Dr.
Bramwelrs seems to possess the auslitles Of
ether laughing gas and bromide combioea
| that irof Lombroso, IN his paper an The