PSYCHIC) FORCE. 
THE reception accorded to my previous paper on Psychic 
Force has been so satisfactory that, had they been ina 
sufficiently advanced state, I should not hesitate to continue 
the publication of my investigations. Time which I hoped 
to spend in research has been occupied in the necessary task 
of vindicating my honour against adverse criticism. I wish 
my scientific friends to have an opportunity of seeing my 
reply to the attacks upon me; but I am reluctant to in- 
troduce personalities into the pages of the ‘‘ Quarterly 
Journal of Science.” I have therefore decided to embody 
the answers to my objectors in a pamphlet, the publication 
of which Messrs. Longman have been good enough to under- 
take. Copies are bound up with the advertisement sheets 
of this number. 
Let me take this opportunity of explaining the exact 
position which I wish to occupy in respect to the subject of 
Psychic Force. I have desired to examine the phenomena 
from a point of view as strictly physical as their nature 
will permit. I wish to ascertain the laws governing the 
appearance of very remarkable phenomena which at the 
present time are occurring to an almost incredible extent. 
That a new form of Force—whether it be called psychic 
force or x force is of little consequence—is involved in this 
occurrence, is not with me a matter of opinion, but of 
absolute knowledge; but the nature of that force, or the 
cause which immediately excites its activity, forms a subject 
on which I do not at present feel competent to offer an 
opinion. I wish, at least for the present, to be considered 
in the position of an electrician at Valentia, examining with 
the utmost refinement of instrumental means certain 
electrical currents and pulsations passing through the 
Atlantic cable, independently of their causation, and 
ignoring whether these phenomena are produced by im- 
perfections in the testing instruments themselves—whether 
by earth currents or by faults in the insulation—or whether 
they are produced by an intelligent operator at the: other 
end of the line. 
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