They knew the unknown
By: Martin Ebon.
Edition: [Book Club ed.].
Publisher: World Pub. Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Psychical research -- Case studies; Parapsychology -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [243]-247.
Table of contents: title: Genius, fear, and courage; title: 1. The searching philosophers: Socrates, Swedenborg, Kant, and Schopenhauer; title: 2. From Shakespeare to Shelley; title: 3. Lincoln: mediums and forebodings; title: 4. Victor Hugo: a two-year dialogue with ghosts; title: 5. From the Brownings to Dickens: a love-hate of spirits; title: 6. Mark Twain's "mental telegraphy"; title: 7. William James: varieties of psychic experiences; title: 8. Strindberg: telepathic delusions?; title: 9. A. R. Wallace: dimensions beyond Darwin; title: 10. Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes's alter ego; title: 11. Thomas Edison: a machine to contact the dead; title: 12. McDougall: ESP at universities; title: 13. Freud: psychoanalysis and telepathy; title: 14. Jung: toward a fourth dimension; title: 15. Yeats: a poet's lifetime vision; title: 16. Alexis Carrel: the unknown in man; title: 17. Maeterlinck: before the great silence; title: 18. W. L. Mackenzie King: the prime minister was discreet; title: 19. Thomas Mann: séance on The Magic Mountain; title: 20. Gilbert Murray: parlor games of a classicist; title: 21. Aldous Huxley: Odyssey to LSD; title: 22. Upton Sinclair's "mental radio"; title: 23. C. J. Ducasse: philosopher of the ultimate; title: 24. The right to believe, and the right to doubt.