New Britain herald., 1925-04-10
Science Must Beqvare Takers
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 in sprtualIsm is q great vic tory for those persons whose lives are devoted to the cause of estab fishing proof of survival after death.
 Flammarion. like his fellow scisp. tist. Sir Oliver Lodge, is hardened nlaterialist. Until now he has ac. cepted as fact only material things. The stars. the planets. the comets and other heavenly bodies were his world fin which he loved to roam. But they existed. They could be seen. ".
 The public's interest in the psychic travels in cycles. There comes period when because of some out. standing event. the entire nation is aroused. Then for long time such interest will lapse.
 THE United States. some six years I ago. witnessed such a revival of interest in the spirit world, Sir oll. yer Lodge came over here and made a number of speeches in the interest of spiritualism, or probably ore should say spiritIsm. la
 He spoke in many cities. Every. where the newspapers heralded his approach and 'auditoriums in which he spoke were packed. Sometimes he was forced to repeat ths lecture. Much of the interest unquestionsbly originated from the fact that ths war had only just been ended. %
 Should Flammarion decide to rs. peat Sir Oliver Lodges tour he would not be rceived with the same enthusiasm. but his reception would be profound nevertheless.
 spiritualism today is stronger than sver. More people either open. ly or secretly are being won over to It's cause. Much of the convsr, sion is based. not on any physical manifestations experienced by those converted. but rather. on 6 HOPE that there is some truth, that there MUST BE some truth of survival from rather seedy world, at best. LIVERY time man of repute, L such as F'lammarlon, openly professes his belief in the existence of s psychic force,. there arises a fresh crop of charlatans. of takers. Of frauds who prey on q gulHble public. Once F1ammarion's book be. comes popular, which 1t will, this horde will be heard from. They must be expected, even endured but all their falery will not drown out the good work of FIammarion.
 A curious and noteworthy point to remember when considering a work such as Flammarion's. end works of Lodge on the same sub. ject, is that while q hard.boilsd scientist takes 6 long tims. many years to make up his mind, he never changes 1t. None of them ever have, to the best of this writer's recollsc. ton. back-tracked on their dsclars, tions.
 A SCIENTIST who adopts q sym, "A pathetic attitude towards spir. itism rarely has anything to do with professional medium. He !nvaria. bly, devotes his Investigations to amateur" mediums. those who Ao not make a living displaying their own occult powers, Many times these mediums are wives CT daugh. CTS in prominent families. who possess unusual powers which they themselves cannot explain logically.
 When Sir Oliver Lodge was tour. ing this country he was asked, nay urged, to have seancs with a csr. tain medium In an Ohio city. This medium. A woman of about 50 years. has been startling people who visited her for the past 70 years. She claims to have cisiraudiant and also clairvoysut powers, She claimed to get messages via g slate from the dead and also claimed to be able to sec and hear tho dead. Her results were astonishing, and so her friends did their best to bring Lodge to see her, or rather bring her to Lodges hotel.
 But Lodge would have nothing to do with her, despite the fact that the late Bishop Hyslop, founder of the American Society for PsychicaI Research, iourneyed from New York to see her at times and seemingly had considerable confidence in her powers.
 He gave as his reason he didn't see professional mediums in whom he had no confidence.
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