The Washington times., 1922-03-05
By CONAN DOYLE
(Sir Arthur Continues His Sphitualiste Wav)
he Famous Creator of Sherlock Holmes Reutes the Arguments
Against Psychic Messages Which Recently Appeared the Wash
ington Sunday Tmes-Are We All LarS7 He Asks

Oily " uypuouo vuBBe8uous B0t
her once to wander in trance out
of her cabinet. Therefore. she II
. fraud, and the one evening ut
Oxford outwsighs the two years
at Mornington-road. 10 that not
mental astigmatismf Again, Eva
sat at the Villa Carmen with.
among others. Charles Richst. the
greatest psychologist In Europe.
He was entirely satisfied Later
an unknown lawyer called her
fraud He was probably an In.
strument of the Church. which In
powerful and not too scrupulous
in such matters- You At once
prefer the shallow lawyer to the
trained observer. and agree that
she 10 . fraud. Yet you know
that since then she has been
tested sxhaustivsly. and that hun
dreds Of photographs exhibit her
power. assured you that had
myself both seen and touched her
ectoplasm. Mono tho less you
write her down a fraud. Is that
reason. or Is It mental astigmat.
ism? Or. to take yet another ex-
ample. Daniel Home was before
tho public for thirty years. He
gave his gifts free to all without
payment. Never once was he de-
tected in fraud. and he had the
rare power of showing pheno-
mena in a good light.
THE JUDGES VIEW.
And yet you dare to write him
down a fraud because a foolish
Judge said so-a Judge who would
probably have thought the same
of every Christian minister. for
he was himself. believe, a ra-
tionalist. There is case even
for that great but cratic medium.
Eusapia.
You know-or probably you
don't know-that very competent
committee, the Hon. Everard Field
ing. MIR. Basgally and Mr.. Car
rington, followed her to Naples.
and issued a futher report. in
which they finally re-established
the truth OF her powers: aud said
a great deal which alleviated the
foolish actions which had been
called fraud. But II Sir Oliver
Lodge said Yes" and street
urchin said No" your Belfast
stain would unhesitatingly support
the No"
There is a very curious lapse
In your reasoning powers. There
Is a friend OF yours who has seen
a table in the air. He has told
you SO and you quite accept It.
I'm afraid Messrs. McCabe, Clodd
and-Co. would call both you and
Eim-well, we won't recur to that
nasty word. But your friend
should be a proud man. since ne
has been chosen as a faithful wit
ness where Lombroso. Crookes,
Lodge, Barrett. Myers and the
others have been so contemptu-
ously rejected. But you can't &C
cept It and leave It there. A fact
entails other facts. Something
raised the table. What or who
raised It? No one touched it, but
II rose.
PERILS OF SPIRITUALISM.
In your final article you speak OF
the perils OF spiritualism. I agree
with you that personal investiga-
ton has It's dangers for highly
strung people. I have never my
self experienced those visionary
Authorizations, but II any friend OF
mine told me that such an effect
was produced upon him I should
advise him to confins himself to
the literature Of the subject. After
all. we don't all use telescopes. and
yet we get the full benefi: Of AS
tronomy.
But II In hardly fair to put Or.
Crawford's premature end down to
this cause in face OF the dignified
letter from his own dying hand in
which he said that It had nothing
10 do with II. hold. however,
that II the pioneers Of this sub
ject were assured that II would be
fatal to their life or reason II
would mono tho less be their duty
to go forward a. steadily a. the
workers ut Trays, aviation or
other dangerous quests have done.
AZ q fact have met spiritualists
in their tens of thousands, and a
happier, healthier crowd I have
never encountered.
fear that l can't pass your ex-
PLANTATION fthe direct voice-that
It is the voice of the medium. You
admitted yourself in your article
on Mrs. johnson that the voices
were male. Mrs. Harris, too, pro-
duces voices which are beyond all
question male. They are so poly
glot that when a Hungarian took
a Croat with him both got messages
through Mrs. wriedt in their own