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"Very well, here is the prescription" He jotted down on a card a few hieroglyphic phrases "And now I elad to have had this talk with you It has suggested a new train of thought to me"

"If you need me on the case you , and I'd like a hand in it"

After Tolman left, Weissmann remarked: "There is a school of thinkers which believes that exceptional individuals es in matter at a distance"

"Yes, I know that I spent s of the Society for Psychical Research, in which that theory has a large place"

"Well, may it not be that Miss Lambert has this power? May it not be that she is able in soested by Lombroso, to impart cerebral movements to the ether and so modify , and all the rest of it?"

"That is too violent an assuht as well surrender to the spiritists at once What evidence have we that Clarke did not rise and tiptoe about the roo the horn himself?"

"We have our own observation, joined to the report of Crookes and Richet"

"But Crookes is discredited on this score He belongs to what Haeckel calls 'the iinative scientists' So do Von Harte"

"Why should that be? Why should we accept their testiases and the spectrum, and exclude it when it coreat chemist and physicist,' you say,'but a crazy ass when he sets to work to examine the claims of spiritism,' which is absurd and unjust So far as I can see, he examined the phenomena of spiritism quite as a scientist should"

Morton believed that his chief was taking the opposing side out of perversity and replied: "I admit that as you read, they seem reasonable, and I also admit that the experiht to be conclusive to --they do not convince"

"That is because we do not clear our hted and profound in their own lines They have exposed the into these new fields They are to be honored as pioneers Why not believe the phenomena they discuss are at least worth our attention?"