The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-03

Of the villa as it existed in Cicere's
time and Of its owner. She is incapable
of fraud, and her case is but one of
others which know.
Mesmerism was duly laughed out Of
court at the opening of our century.
and 10. it is back again, in good stand
ing! under the alias of ''hypnotism.
So one may run on through 4 list of
strange, unaccountable, mysterious and
most unbelievable powers of man, lead
ing up to that nightmare of the dog
matte scientist, spiritism. The belief in
the existence of unseen spirit and Of
their power of communication with us
in the flesh is one of the oldest most
insistent beliefs of man, and it has
revived strangely in our day.
For the first time in the history Of
man these powers have been scientific
ally Investigated in our day. Already
the result is that a considerable num-
Der Of eminent men of science have
had the courage to avow that, after
| allowing for illusion, fraud, and every
/ possible hypothesis of Interpretation,
they have been driven up to the ulti-
mate solution of the problem-the belief
in the actual communication of the
spirits of those whom we call dead
with the living.
Il make bold to say that there is no
| field for human investigation half so
promising as this. none which should
appeal to educated. intelligent philan-
| thropic men to support and endow.
| Anyone who walks with his eyes
| open, ready to hear what men have to
tell; will find stories pouring in upon
| him from men whom he cannot mis-
trust as liars and when he knows to be
sane and sensible which will stagger
l him. These experiences are not at all
confined to the seance and the medium
Their most impressive forms occur in
the privacy of the home without a
professional medium present.
Now here is a dark continent de-
handing exploration, promising the
richest finds. Already we find a new
therapeutic agent at work in our midst
mot new, but newly realized and
working a revolutionizing influence ii
modern medicine. The possibilities OF
mental medicines are only being opened
Its application to the most distressing
from of human nalady insanity, i.
full Of beneficent results. Its potency
in character reform and the cure of thu
drink habit seems vast and benign
Philosophic idealism is receiving vim
dication such as it never had before.
Religious faith is finding its tru
foundations in the recognition of mai
as a spiritual being, a being who ha
had dominion over nature given to hin
as the child of a vaster Spiritual Be
ing the Lord of all life. The one belle
absolutely essential to ethics-immor
tality--is coming within the ken of ;
scientific demonstration. This is tn
potency and promise of psychicc re
search
| Preceding DR.. Newton's address
James II. Hyslop declared that thos
who vouched for the existence OF. sup
| ernomal phenom ena had taken sprecau
ton against everything except a con
spiracy of fraud involving a large nur
Der OF persons and that it was tn
public that was most likely to be fool
| ed by its own illusory ideas of the sub
ject, He announced that the institut
would hold two meetings where larg
number of invited persons could be ac
commodated and where there would b
an opportunity to present more full,
both the moral and the scientific as
poets Of psychical research.--New Yori
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