New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-04
4 CENSUS OF GHOSTS.
THE REPORT OF PROFESSOR SIDGWICK'S
COMMITTEE.

COMMITTEE.
From The Westminster Budget
The census OF Authorizations has occupied the time
and attention Of the Psychical Research Society for
the last six years The report "A very voiumlnous
ceedings Of the society has just made It's appear
ancc. Although. might be anticipated from the
extreme gravity OF the subject which Is under con-
slderaton. the conclusions at which they have ar.
that the report marks distinct advance toward the
recognition Of the weight OF evidence IN taVor Oh the
continuance OF the individual after death.
DO THE DEAD STILL LIVE?
"If a man die shall he live again. Is the question
with which mos; readers viii approach the e;aborate
ANALYSIS Of the statistical tables accompanying this
difficulty In deciding which way the ultimate verdict
Will At present the committee confines ltseIi 70
en-; does not suffice in iisclf constitute con-
c,usive case FOR post-mortem agency the cases re,
corded afford argument for the continuity OF
psychlcal ne and the possibility OF communications
from the dead They further say that the census is
not purely subjective ana when suggest the
Thcy quote one Of the cases which appear to
ecs hat he deceased are continuing to ake an b n
toreSt in mundane AFFAIR." ng s,%Ty wnGa IN c rgy
municatc1 10y Miss Dodson and II Is certainly very
remarkable. In brief # is a follows: on Sunday.
Jun~ = ISL close upon midnight. Miss Dodson
reused by hearing her name called three tines. enc
time she recognize the voice Of her mother VINO had
been dead sixteen years. Il said" continued Miss
"Shs then came round screen near my bedside
with two children In her arms and pac"d mem IN
my arms and put the beiciothes over them, ana
said: Lucy. promise me t. tax Glrc OF them, Tor
she rcpct tcl. Ironise me to takr care OF mem
replied. Yes. ! promise You. ana added. on:
s5~ r1pe S Naf yS . my chG them she Secme to
x, round tn, screen again. and remained: feeling
the children be- still In my arms. and f.l asleep.
When awoke there was nothing luesday morn
! ing. June received the news Of my sster-in-la"
e9h she h1d fiven 9Ttm 10 ri cH b nf' eb
Professor SlIgwick says a. the result Of interest
ur ~ res corresp6niing with the ages OF the
children Of her sster-in-law they seemed to be a
Ingenious sceptlc can get round this case Is 10y, sup
posing thai te.elihic mpnine ron T., ne n f
| OF his mother. But idea Of a brother In Belgium
hsln able H. transmit tclepathc message In the
| sumeI shape ana with the voice Of his mother. who
into >iS,cnce in LONDON the two ttle children who
| were living I'm his house ~ Rruges constitutes too
| great 4 draught upon the Imagination 81 man.
sons 4 connecion Exists which is not due chance
alone. This We hold as a proved fact The DIS,
| In this paper nor perhaps exhausted In this age"
With these words Professor Henry Sdgwick r ".
| H. Myers Frank Polmore. Mrs. Sdgwick and Miss
| Johnson conclude this elaborate report
1900 WITNESSES.
| Professor sldgwick and his colleagues have FOR
some years past been engaged in conducting an In
I th AMOUNT U 81 the evicnce that was procurabe
one eide ~ the vast subject that Is populary known
| as the supernatural. and It may be vel briefly TO
| describe tho nature Of the census on which their
report Is founie,l ..., .. .,,, rs,o, ,,,s
arrived at in ls'j by Mr.. Quincy on taking census
Of the experiences u some 300 cases the present
| census relates go some l7op persons each OF whom
| has been separately interroglted The question
which was pnt - each Of them was a. no. ON
| pictrly awake. had VIVA impression OF srehS or
being touched by living heinz or inanimAtS 2oJ'c'
You could describe. wac not due to any external
| Two hunirel and twenty-ihree women and Isl
men undertook - make the inquiry. ana me censIs
| and lcputntinces. ana oi others VITA "hom they
| could come into contact
! In W,v ~ has rrsultcl broadly speaking. IN tho
| following conclusions. pf 1000 persons VINO were
awcrrl We Af,'r an summation With i view
to the elimination ~ al affirmative answers that dli
not come within the precise scope or tn" question,
! the Census Committee has arrived a tn conclusion
psrlonr~ II such Authorizations amounts 10 lci out
,.rtn IN ever ten ms either heard voice or seen
=, .,.r,.i thtt manklnI my be- divided into two
unequal fractions oneten;h consisting of those who
s., called the other nlnet,n;hs being those without
, cxucri.nCe. The proportion might ~ raised con-
,icfaby II tn haliu nations we're n9t rrsrictei To-
| miitol tn" proportion wold Boz nearer on" In eight
| IN, Immense maiort, 81 tnofe who have experience
| Authorizations .tv" eNperl'n' 81 NON thi2ush u,,
cyr ~ the lG22. Ll.p were visual. aN auditory ana
only ~ mctle tn m"J1riiy q the na.ucna,
lions occurred u connection with living persons or
these realistic humln pnAnths ms o-' WERE gntee9g
| dead There wer" only sixteen angels ana r4iiElouS
| phantasms. thrty-thre" grotcsquc and horrible ap,
| rlrltions ana in twenty seven cases the spectral
I'm ,y,s That Of an animal OF the visual appari-
| ons. 90 or nearly one-haf were seen within the
| 1yvlkc In bel or Immediately after waking in 4S'
cases the recipient was up ana indoors ana -oi were
From the table Of nation1lties 1t would seem that
the l.neiish-spcakins race Sc aplartions mch less
ons. but this may be accounted for by the com
parAtlvely small hunpnf Oh rIr" 'T NJ, @