New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02


-, thing. There are mysterious
fittings upon the wall, strange raps
...r the floor, weird noises at night.
r..,. are wraiths and there are fairies
.,a apparently no end to the things
seen and heard.
rs, epidemic has resulted in max
n, some people insane; others have
49,, driven to suicide. 1t is an in
.ia;o., disease. But now a great
y,,onean scientist has determined to
a.ynose the malady, Like the rest,
r. sees ghosts, but he does not be-
,;.vs in them. Moreover. he refuses to
..u them ghosts-the name he gives
them Is "ectoplasm."
That is the magic word which Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle gave a vogue in
IN. United States. AS proof of COM
runie,tion with spirit world. the
.r.,.o, Of Sherlock Holmes cited the
photographs Of ectoplasm and told
how mediums had exuded strange IL
ouids from their niger tips.
Dr.. Charles Richet is the scientist
who purposes to analyze so-called
suritualism He is Frances greatest
professor Of experimental psychology
and world authority on physiology.
II scientific circles his word is Cos
v.l and the great thinkers Of Europe
~ beginning to follow his leadership
ms serious study of the Unknown.
Dr.. Richet has been studying spirit
manifestations for a number of years
from q purely scientific point of view.
He has lost hope Of curing any of the
unfortunates who have caught the
spirltualstic germ, but he is certain
that his system is a perfect antitoxin
and any who follow his methods will
be immune from the disease. They
vii; remain healthy and normal and
st the same time add greatly to the
development of science, instead of sit
ting around tables in the dark invok-
ing forgotten relatives and hypnotic
Ing themselves with a thousand and
Que vague ideas. The professor knows
Conan Doyle well and has tried to
cure him time after time, but he has
now given up.
fantastic Manifestations
Doubted BY Scientist
Eyes, I've seen the fairy pictures,"
ne said, with sad shake Of his white
head. They are perfectly foolish, but
Conan Doyle will believe in them.
Those fairies are dressed like ballet
girls. It's impossible they should ex-
ist Such pictures are worthy of at
'ention in proportion to the scientific
control in force while they are being
taken. These had none, and they look
very suspicious to me-"
Dr. Richet insists that if such
fairies existed We could all go and
have look at them. They would not
be visible to the eyes Of some and in
visible for others.
I know that Conan Doyle is quite
ssrious and perfectly convinced about
'aries and life after DEATH" said the
old professor, "but it simply doesn't
stand up under a scientific investiga-
ton. II anybody else had shown me
those pictures l wouldn't have looked
1t them twice. When ectoplasm ap-
pears anybody can see it. There's
absolutely no doubt about it's exist
ence, which is admitted by the most
eminent scientists of Europe to-day.
It's not an illusion, for it has been
photographed by many people under
inherent conditions. Although ecto-
p!asm is scientific fact, don't ask me
70 explain it. It's enough to expert
nent with it and try to find out some
VI the laws governing it,"
Is silly and childish to draw con-
eusions from the little we know about
'0's subject. Richet declared. Those
VINO md in 1t proof of continuation
% HE after death remind him of the
carly Egyptians who placed loaves of
v'eso IN the collins of the dead so that
'"e departing spirits would not be hun
e'S on their trip to heaven. Although
ne has devoted great many years to
VIC study OF psychical matters and has
'ee" more ghosts almost anybody liv-
"s' yet he does not believe in life
after death.
"hen We die, we'll be dead, and
mat the end of u.s." said the eminent
scholar, and he calmly looks forward
:" the complete determination of his
identity in few years.
Inc old professor refuses to base
."s theory on his discoveries. He
,.'nAs 1t absurd to make such claim.
'ne original ape-like forefather of
an nao found that rubbing a bit Of
.."Oe' gave 1t the power to draw par
ives 10 (which we call magnetism
:, nc eou!o no more have struck at the
Nea of electricity, Richet says. than
sn To-day can know what all this So
ss''ed spiritualistic phenomena means
ROXY to Expect Lucid
A4planation of Action
.x At would have been folly to have
,.as >'.o the cave-men to have appreeci-
So. '"e 'heories of electricity under
!, circumstances he said, "but it
~, wen greater folly to-day for any
VIII, - decide that the shapes into
w." w." ectoplasm forms itself are indi-