The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
A Patient Investigator Of TGlepathic
Phenomena

To THE Ep1rok OF THE SuN-Sb: Have
you had enough about telepathy7 not.
permit me a word Your correspondents
relate some remarkable and. II true. important
tales. But each story Is admitting II to be
told In absolutely good faith. merely the ex-
perienoe OF one mind. How can 1t carry con-
viction to any other either Of the fact itself
or Of the theory that II was the result OF one
mind acting upon another at a greater or
less distance which constitutes what Is called
telepathy? On the other hand. how can Mr..
Goodwin Smith, or any one else who has never
had such experiences himself. deny their pos
sibility2 This is not the way that scien oe
proceeds either to ascertain or deny the truth
Of assertions In which it interests itself. 1t
asks those who claim certain powers to exer-
else them In it's presence, under conditions
which II shall prescribe to exclude all posi-
bity of fraud, coincidence mistaken ascrip-
ton of causes. and self -delusion.
II any. Of the correspondents who have
pathic incidents will reproduce the phenomena
IN his presence under CONDITIONS ion, " that , ne
Sn hay w to Be
Spirtualism challenged science to examine
its claims, but would never submit ito to scis len
was dismissed by science as charlatanism or
Have {Ee alleged phenomena of telepathy
ever been subjected TO such an examination!
The work Of the Society for Psyeheal Re
1t Is snd oes
than collect and classify ghost stories,
know of but one competent authority who has
scrutiny. the same patient and exhaustive
labor. the same ecrupuous elimination Of all
possible error, and the same wholesome soep-
ticism, which modern science applies TO the e1-
animation of alleged facts In all other branches.
and that authority is DR.. 4. ochorowicz
chology and natural philosophy in the. Uni
versity Of Lemoerg--as his name would IN.
dictate. Galieian Pole a correspondent s Of
a man of exceptional ecumen and learning :.
In a work entitled Mental Transmission"
he has given the results Of thirty years Of con-
slant experimentation, In whici given phe-
at will. under conditions with which the
finally ai Yielded to the conviction that he had
really demonstrated that in certain cases Of
nervous. organization discoverable In ADVANCE
and under certain circumstances and condi-
tons easily secured. some medium not yet
defined, may carry motions from one brain
to another and reprod uce In the latter thou hts
or emotions approximating to those Of the
former.
He Furthermore offers. tentatively. and mod
mens Which, s he sustans BY as subtle and in
eenious reasonin as one would wish TO follow
1t is quite impossible to deny his substantial
and md + should Prefer to leave the task Of COM
viii undertake It. Did he oonvince me Of
the actually Of mental transmission at
mse s hs h se is quite soene ~ss
OF dealing with the alleged phenomena OF
telepathy. DR.. Ochorowicz unouestionably
used IL. and II is remark able that those who
bother themselves with psychic things do not
give the book more attention;
To attempt here to give the vaguest suR-
gestion OF his theory would occupy more
space than fear THE Sun would care to de-
vote TO the subject. would only add that
finding out all about it. M j. DEE.
DETROIT, Sept. %.