Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23


- Psychcal Research some years ago. said
49, eff | rightly interpret the results which
NSSS these many years of labor have forced
sEsF upon the members of this society and upon
f14 others not among our number who
ID ISOLATED by similar spirit, it does seem to
al me that there is at least a strong ground
~ for supposing that outside the world,
20 have, from the point of science, been
Sg9 in the habit of conCeiving it, there does
~ lie region, not open indeed to expert
mental observation in the same way as
the more familiar regions of the material world
are open to it, but still with regard to which
some experimental information may be 1aboriously
cleaned, and even if cannot entertain any
fident hope of discovering what laws these half
seen phenomena obey, at all events it will be
gain to have shown, not as matter of speculation
or conjecture but as a matter of ascertained fact,
that there some things in Heaven and earth not
hitherto dreamed of in scientific philosophy"
Andrew Lang than whom the English language
hardly has ADLER critic and skeptic in reviewing
Mr.. Myers Human Personality and It's Survival
of Bodily Death" says: Il myself, regarding the
word matter and spirit as mere metaphysical
counters with which we pay ourselves, think IRE
gious faith apart that human faculty lends
fairly strong presumption in favor of the survival
of human consciousness.
"To myself after reading the evidence, it ap-
pears that fairly strong presumption is raised in
favor of phantasmogenetic agency set at work.
in vague, unconscious way by the deceased, and
l say this after considering the adverse arguments
of Mr.. Podmore, for example, in favor of telepathy
from living minds, and all hypothesis of hoaxing
exaggerative memory, mal-observation, and So
forth-not to mention the popular nonsense about
What is the use of iti' Why is it permitted?
and the rest of it. What is the use of argon? Why
are cockroaches pernittedF
ITO end with confession of opinion: l entirely
agree with Mr. Myers and Hege1 that We or many
of us, are in something, or that something is in u.s.
which does not know the bonds of time or feel the
manacles of space" ~
Sir William Crookes, the discoverer of Crookes
tubes one of the ablest physicists in England also
says: mo incident in my scientific career is more
widely known than the part l took many years
ago in certain psychical researches. Thirty years
have passed since l published account of expert
ments tending to show that outside scientific
knowledge there exists force exercised by intei-
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 it may lead
should it at times resemble will-o-the-
WiSp.'''
DR.. Cesare Lombroso the psychologist and Grim
nologist, says: There is great probability now
given through psychcal and spiritistic
searches that there is continued existence of the
soul after death, preserving weak identity, to
which the persistent soul add life and
growth from the surrounding media"
Mr.. Huxley, whose sceptical tendency no one
will deny says "In my judgment the actuality
of this spiritual world-the value of the evidence
for its objective existence and its influence upon the
course of things-are matters which lie much
within the province of science any other question
about the existence and powers of the various
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