102 Presidential Address 



nected, but there need be no hostility 

 between them. Every kind of reality 

 must be ascertained and dealt with by 

 proper methods. If the voices of Socrates 

 and of Joan of Arc represent real psy- 

 chical experiences, they must belong to 

 the intelligible universe. 



Although I am speaking ex cathedra, as 

 one of the representatives of orthodox 

 science, I will not shrink from a personal 

 note summarising the result on my own 

 mind of thirty years' experience of psy- 

 chical research, begun without predi- 

 lection indeed with the usual hostile 

 prejudice. This is not the place to enter 

 into detail or to discuss facts scorned by 

 orthodox science, but I cannot help re- 

 membering that an utterance from this 

 chair is no ephemeral production, for it 

 remains to be criticised by generations 

 yet unborn, whose knowledge must inevi- 

 tably be fuller and wider than our own. 

 Your President therefore should not be 

 completely bound by the shackles of 

 present-day orthodoxy, nor limited to be- 

 liefs fashionable at the time. In justice 



