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GENUINE "SPOORS" AND FALSE ONES
The World Wide Search for the Truth Regarding Psychical Phe
nomena. A Bequest to an American University Author
Izes Further Investigation of Occultism,
BOSTON, Feb. 17, 1908-Modcrn
scepticism doesn't if em to lay the
ghosts. Belief in "spooks," of one
kind or mother, or at any rate in mys
tcrlous force which transcend ordin
ary experience!, is strong in thi age
of enlightenment Enthusiastic nd
well trained Inquirers are continually
discovering phenomena which in their
Judgement can be explained only in
case there lit beyond the world of the
lenses manifestations of which the
human mind is not ordinarily cognl
nt The bequest, just made, of I
turn of money to Clark Univenity In
thi itate for special investigation of
the cluinii of ipiritiatn it a new iilus
tratlon of the modern disposition to
ward the occult, v
The president of the univenity at
Worcester, Dr. 0. Stanley Hall, emi
nent at a psychologist of very prac
tical turn of mind, ii reported to have
expressed hla entire wiUlogaeM to
receive the bequest and to live up to
iti terms. Hit desire to do whatever
la reasonable in studying the facts, or
aliened facts, of occultism Is in line
with the attitude of an increasing
number of scientifically trained urn,
Whatever investigation, further
more, Is carried on at Chirks will b
simply another contribution to the
vast amount of material of this char
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lit the past 25 or 30 years by earnest
students in Europe and America.
Many Americana, whether rightly or
wrongly, still think of the occult aim-
ply as an imaginary realm which vul
gar fakirs exploit for the sake of their
pocketbooks, and they have no cob
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ception of the importance of the auth
orities who have ranged themselves
on the side of , spiritism, or of the
number of literary documents by re
sponsible writers dealing with cases
which, if not due to deception, must
have a bearing on the ptoblems of the
nature and destiny of the human soul.
Only this month the civilized world
was startled by the declarations of Sir
Oliver Lodge, whom many recognize
as the most distinguished living scien
tist, that he has believed himself to be
in communication with maniestatlons
from another world. Sir Oliver, says
those who sgree with the late Wil
liam E. Gladstone in holding psychic
research to be "the most Important
work which is being done In the
world," should be no easy victim of
the itinerant medium or professional
hypnotist. As professor of physics
for many years, principal of the Uni
versity of Birmingham and enthusias
tic first hand investigator in the re-
pnfent genuineness. In the Inst vol
ume of Proceedings, for example
Professo" Hyslop himself makes re
murkable statements of results ob
taincd ' through a new medium, i
"Mrs, Smcad," with powers which he
believes to equal or even surpass
of the celebrated Mrs. piper of Bos
ton whose case bai been under con
stant study of experts for many years.
Through this medium Professor Hys
lop received, among many other re
markable communications, a tele
putlilc message from . his deceased
wife to the effect that her father was
about to die in his Philadelphia home
as, Indeed, he did die in strict ac
cordance with the prediction. Mrs.
Smcad is said to be the assumed name
of the wife of a clergyman living in an
Interior town who accepts no money
for her services and has never ap
peared in public so that she aeems
not to have the ordinary motives for
deception.
Jn addition to these volumes of
Proceedings which give Americans
specially Interested in the scientific
aspects of psychic research an oppor
tunity to keep in touch with the latest
happenings in this fascinating domain
of investigation an extensive general
lilertaure is growing up. Professor
Hyslop, who has devoted most of his
recent years to a study of the prob
terns of occultism, has treated in a
clear, popular way such topics as dis-
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gion of the new chemistry, involving
theories of radium and ionization, no
man ought to be better equipped to
distinguish between fraudulent and
true. "
Sir Oliver is not alone, as all the
world knows, among European and
American men of high attainments in
science whose researches in spiritism
and kindred subjects) have led to a be
lief that we may be about to make
fundamental discoveries in metaphys
ics. Many of the Englishmen of in
tcrntaional reputation have for years
been active members of the Society
of Psychical Research. Its proceed
ings number 20 thick volumes. Of
more cosmopolitan caste is the consid
erable group of devoutces of pyschic
research whose special organ is the
"Annals of Psychical Science," pub
lished fortnightly in the French lan
guage in Paris and in English in Lon
don (the Boston publishing firm of
Small, Maynard & Company having
recently been appointed American
agents) and containing contributions
by world famous authorities. , The
directors of the publication are Dr.
Dariex and Professor Richet, while
on the committee of publication are
such men as Sir William Crbokes,
the English chemist,' Camille Flam
marlon, astronomer, and Caesar Lorn
broso with whose discovery of the
methods of modern criminology every
American is familiar.
In this country the' American Soci
ety for Psychical Resarch continues
its interesting work. Its "proceed
In us" are issued under the editorship
of Professor James H. Hyslop, form
erly of Columbia University. Ante
dating them, and already becoming
classics of the subject are the pro
ceedings of the old American Society
for Pyschical Research, which con
tained contributions by such men as
Professors William James and Josiah
Royce of Harvard University and by
the late-Richard Hodgson, the dean
of psychical research in America.
The three volumes of the newer So
e'ety which have been issued up to
date cite cases that have attracted
widespcad interest through their ap-
associalion, illusions, hallucinations,
sub-conscious action, clairvoyance,
mcdiumistic phenomena and the like
in such works as his "Borderland of
Psychical Research," "Enigmas of
Psychical Research" and "Science and
a Future Life." Dr. I. B. Funk, the
well known temperance advocate, has
written extensively on kindred sub
jects. ,'
Very entertainingly from the popu
lar point of view, Camille Flammar
ion, he who beyond perhaps any other
writer has made astronomy interest
ing to the newspaper readers of two
continents, has been looking into
subjects of psychical interest for
nearly forty years and has become
convinced that while undeniably a
large percentage of fraud exists in
mcdiumistic performances, there are
instances in which the lifting of tables
the moving of pieces of furniture, the
raising of pianos, the blowing about
of curtains, the appearance of hands,
heads and spectral figures may be
accomplished by use of forces that
have not heretofore been appraised
by scientists. M. Ftammarion in his
book "Mysterious Psychic Forces,"
which has just been translated into
English, does not deny that all medi
ums may cheat at times but he asserts
that "they don't always cheat; and
they possess real undeniable psychic
powers." ' He has personally carried
on many experiments and has con
firmed his observations with the cam
era. Inasmuch as he has, according
to his statements, often seen a heavy
table lifted to a height of eight,
twelve or even sixteen inches from
the floor under conditions where the
only lifting that could be practised
was due to the hands of four or five
persons placed on its top, he has ar
rived at the conclusion that the levlta
tion of objects by psychic power is
no more to be doubted than the lift
ing of a pair of scissors by the aid of
4 magnet.
The astronomer maintains a truly
Gallic scepticism regarding these evi
denccs of powers which the more
credulous associates unhesitatingly
with a world apart from our own.
lie merely understands that marvel
lous feats are accomplished with the
help of forces which are not recog
nized in the ordinary text books of
physics and chemistry and without
expressing opinions ss to the future
life or the existence of Cod, he main
tains that the soul exists independ
ently o( the body, with faculties that
are still very little understood, and
that in some instances the soul is able
to work st long distance without in
tcrvention of the five senses.
One of the most frequent accusa
tions brought against the conclusions
of some of the very eminent men of
science who have participated in the
work of psychical research is that, be
ing of a guileless and unsuspicious
nature, they are readily deluded
That is a charge made by Professor
E. W. Scripture of the psychological
department of Yale University in a
recent article in The Independent
Acknowledging, no doubt, the im
mense value to human kind of Sir
William Crookes studies in chemist
ry, many of which have revolution
ized whole industries, Mr. Scripture
asserts that outside of his own do
tmvn of investigation Sir William is
a man of childish mind. He throws
out similar hints regarding an emin
ent professor of physiology of a
world famous Americans university
who, he says, has been fooled at
seances where many of the audiences
saw the trick. '
There is at least one investigator
into things occult whom even Prof
essor Scripture would probably not
regard as being necessarily by temp
erament and training an easy mark.
This is Here ward Carrington, form
erly a professional sleight-of-hand
performer in England and now a
resident of New York City, a member
of the Council of the American So
ciety of Scientific Research, and an
assistant to Dr. Hyslop in certain of
his work. Mr. Carrington has been
called a "spook detective." It act
ually is detective work in which for a
considerable part of his time, he is
engaged. He shares with Flam
marion the conviction that every
medium, whether he has genuine psy
chic power or not, is peculiarly sub
ject to temptations to use trickery.
His interest in psychic affairs was
aroused by the discovery that through
his knowledge of legerdemain he was
enabled to detect the more common
forms of deception. Investigation
led him, however, to believe ,that
amog nthe mediumistic manifestations
there are some that can be explained
only in terms 'of forces beyond our
present ken. His studies of individ
ual mediums have led him now to
Nova Scotia, now to the Middle West,
now to sittings with Mrs. Piper who
is living in' seclusion near Boston.
Of his newly published book, "The
Psychical Phenomena of Spiritual
ism," the first and larger part is de
voted to fraudulent examples of
spiritism while the secondary portion
deals with those which he regards as
undoubtedly genuine.
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