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9781330000267: The Naturalisation of the Supernatural (Classic Reprint)

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It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune time for malting an organised and systemaiic attempt Uirmestigate that targe group of debatable phenomerta designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritualistic. From the recorded testimony of nutty competent witnesses, past and present, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amid much delusion and deception, an important body of remarhahle phenomena, which are prima facie inexplicable on any generally recognised hypothesis, and which, if inconiestably estailisked, would be of the highest possible value. The tash of examining such residual phenomena has often been undertaken by individual effort, but nver hitherto by a scientific society organised on a sufficiently broad basis. The above extract from the original prospectus of the Society for Psychical Research, issued in 1882, shows the spirit in which it entered on its investigations, the aim which it set before itself, and the methods by which it was proposed to pursue this aim.

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Originally published in 1908. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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