New-York tribune., 1905-04-23

SsgA we have, from the point of science been
Y 3 in the habit of conceiving it, there does
~ lie a region, not open indeed to expert
mental observation in the same way as
the more familiar regions of the material world
open to it. but still with regard to which
some experimental information may be labOriOusly
cleaned and even if we cannot entertain any con-
fident hope of discovering what laws these half
seen phenomena obey, at all events it will be some
gain to have shown, not as matter OF speculation
or conjecture, but a matter of ascertained fact,
that there are things in Heaven and earth not
hitherto dreamed of in scientific philosophy"
Andrew Lang than whom the English language
hardly has an ab1er critic and skeptic in reviewing
Mr. Myers " Human Personality and Its Survival
of Bodily Death" says " l myself regarding the
word matter and spirit as mere metaphysical
counters with which we pay ourselves, think IRE
ligiOus faith apart that human faculty lends a
fairly strong presumption in favor of the survival
of human consciousness.
ITO myself after reading the evidence, 1t ap-
pears that fairly strong presumption is raised in
favor of a phantasmOgenetIC agency set at work,
in vague, unconscious way by the deceased, and
/ say this after considering the adverse arguments
of Mr. Podmore, for example, in favor of teepathy
from living minds, and all hypothesis of hoaxing,
exaggeratve memory, mal-observaton, and
forth-not to mention the popular nonsense about
What is the use of it,? Why is it permitted
and the rest tit What is the use of argon? Why
are cOCkrOacheS permitted!
agree with Mr. Myers and Hegel that We or many
of US are in something, that something is in us.
which does not know the bonds of time or feel the
manacles of space"
Sir William Crookes, the discoverer of Crookes
tubes, of the ablest physicists in England also
says: 'No incident in my scientific career is more
widely known than the part | took many years
ago in certain psychical researches. Thirty years
have passed since published an account of expert
ments tending to show that outside scientific
knowledge there exists force exercised by intel-
gence differing from the ordinary intelligence COM
to mortals. To stop short in any research
that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to
reco from fear of difficulty adverse criticism, is
to bring reproach science. There is nothing for
the investigator to do but to go straight on, to
explore up and down, inch by inch with the taper
of reason: to follow the light wherever 1t may lead,
even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-
wisp.'"
DR.. Cesare Lombroso the physiologist and GRIM
inologist, says; There is great probability now
given through psychical and spiritistic re-
searches that there is continued existence of the
soul after death, preserving a weak identity, to
which the persistent soul add life and
growth from the surrounding media"
Mr.. Huxley, whose sceptical tendency one
will deny, says In my judgment the actuaty
of this spiritual word-the value of the evidence
for its objective existence and its influence upon the
course of thngs-are matters which lie as much
within the province of science any other question
about the existence and powers of the various
forms of living and conscious activity"
Mr. Gladstone spoke of the work as the most
important in the world and Goldwin Smith, in an
article in THE North American Review" spoke of
the conclusion affecting the whole social structure
of society can hardly expect man to live
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