On the Threshold of a New World of Thought An Examination of the Phenomena of S
On the Threshold of a New World of Thought An Examination of the Phenomena of S
William Barrett
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38 A NEW WORLD OF THOUGHT. take the trouble to inquire. Cut I have never yet met with anyone who holds that view who knows anything about the subject. The most notable instance of a body of able men setting out with the determination to show that Spiritualistic phenomena were all due to trickery, and find- ing after inquiry at first hand that their prepossessions were hopelessly wrong, is the Dialectical Society, who re- ported in 1870 that the phenomena could not be explained by fraud, and tha...t the subject was one worthy of serious scientific inquiry. Of course bad coins do exist, but their number is comparatively small and their very existence is obviously due to the fact that there are good ones to imitate. Mr. Crookes, F. R. S. , whose famous scientific researches show him to be one of the most exact and accomplished of living experimental investigators, has said that he began his inquiry into the phenomena of Spiritualism, believing the whole affair was superstition and trickery, but he ended by "staking his scientific reputation" that his preconceived ideas were wrong and that a class of phenomena wholly new to science did really exist.
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