The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-14
SCIENTIST
believes
IN GHOSTS
REMARKABLE ADDRESS BY DIR.
HYsLOP AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA.

VI CALlf OttNlA.
BERKELEY, August DIR. James
H. Hyslop, secretary and campaigner
for the American Society for Psychical
Research, lectured last evening before
a great audience in Hearst Hail at the
University of California. His subject
was Psychic Phenomena and Life At
ter Death" DR.. HyslOp declared
again and again that he had no doubt
the dead could communicate with the
living, and said that he mad already
had scientific data tending to establish
his assertion. He hopes, through Tne
society which he represents, to obtain
before his death complete scientific
proof of his assertion.
Professor Hyslop was formerly pro-
fessor of logic and ethics at Columbia
University. He is a scholar of world
wide repute, and since he retired from
the faculty of the University to take
up the scientific study of psychic phe-
nomena he has been the most famous
man in that line of work in the world.
Hence, when he asserted that he not
only believed that communication with
the spirits of the dead was possible,
but that he himself, through mediums,
had so communicated with his wlfe
and others, the interest aroused
among the great throng of University
people gathered to hear the lecture
was great indeed
DR.. Hyslop referred to a tacit agree.
ment he made before the death of his
companion and co-worker, DR.. Richard
Hodgson, that they would try to COM
municate with each other after one
had died. Hodgson died in 1905. Dr.
Hyslop went to a woman librarian a
medium. She gave him a bit of a mes
sage from his friend, DR.. HysIop said.
Three days later he went to the fam
GUS medium, Mrs. Piper. She wrote.
while in one of her frances, a message
from DR.. Hodgson, which said:
Il tried to give you such and such
word"
Two days after that, Dr. Hyslop said.
he tried it again and got whole SEN
tence from Dr. Hodgson. Then ne
wrote to the son of Professor James.
the great Harvard psychologist. and
got a sitting with him.
Through him." said DR.. Hyslop. 81
got the identical sentence which I got
through Mrs. Piper. There is a cor
roboration of facts which can't be at
tributed to chance"
Dr. Hyslop referred to the fact that
most of the matters in the messages
he got were trivial, and that very few
gave any idea of the life beyond the
grave But, he added, the trivial facts
were the only ones possible of verifica-
ton here on earth and were therefore
the only ones that appealed to scien-
titic men. Several times. however he
said, spirits had begun to tell him OF
life after leaving the earth and al
ways ended in tantalizing way BY
saying they were getting into a
dreamy state.
Dr. Hyslop is a rtpid and entertain
ing talker. He is by no means of the
Iong-haired variety of mystic dream
ers. He appears to be an energetic
man, with a keen sense of
lumor and plenty of good, hard. prac-
zeal sense. He devoted much of his
ecture last evening to explaining the
enormous cost of scientific research
work. He wishes to interest peopIe
with money in the society with which
he is connected, so that more data can
De secured along the lines on which
ne has been working.
The lecture has aroused more dis
'ussion in Berkeley than anything that
has occurred here in many days, Az
er the lecture last night the streets
around the University grounds were
.ull OF interested folk discussing and
arguing the points brought out by DIR.
Hyslop. All one could have was refer
ences to psychic phenomena. ghosts.
plain spooks, mediums, cases. scientific
proof, materialism, idealism, organism,
-elepathy, apparitions and the like.
Dr. Hyslop is the guest during his
stay in Berkeley of Charles Keller
The poet. He will deliver a second lee