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Meanwhile Morton, with an armful of the publications of "The Society for Psychical Research" before hius on Viola Lah her--he could not for a mo, to every lan to science--was, in short, preposterous

He had acquired all the prejudices against such a faith from Emerson's famous phrase, "rat-hole philosophy," down to the latest sneer in the editorial columns of The Pillar, to the latest "exposé" in The Blast Upon the s, planchettes, es on slates, and all the rest of the aue, were either half-baked thinkers, intellectual perverts, or soft-pated sentirief

"And yet," said one author, "go a little deeper and you will find in the very absurdities of these phenoument for their truth Aforward as evidence a thing so childish and so ludicrous as a spirit tipping a table, writing in a bottle, or speaking through a tin horn Who but a childlike and trusting soul would expect to convince aa randfather to appear in red letters on his arm? The hit-or-miss character of all these phenomena, the very silliness and stupidity which you find in the appeal, may be taken as evidence of the sincerity of the psychic"

To this Morton took exception "I don't see that There has never been a religion too gross, too fallacious, to fail of followers Reypt and the snake-dance of the Hopi The whole theory, as Spencer says, is a survival of ahi the afternoon, he said, carelessly: "If you were called upon to prove the falsity or demonstrate the truth of the spiritualistic faith--hoould you set to work?"

Weiss colleague He was dressed to go home, and was topped by a loned, broad-bri like a shallop on the curling wave of his grizzled hair His eyebrows, gray, with two black tufts near the nose, resey trousers, and a huge umbrella finished the picture He was a veritable Gerende Blätter