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 spiritualism. 



This commonly discussed subject received 

 from Huxley little more than passing notice 

 because it did not appeal to him as resting 

 upon an actual scientific basis. He says : "The 

 only case of spiritualism I have had the oppor- 

 tunity of examining into for myself was as 

 gross an imposture as ever came under my 

 notice.* The only good that I can see in the 

 demonstration of the truth of it is to furnish 

 an additional argument against suicide." 



That there is more than a chance relationship 

 between many events occurring in actual daily 

 experience is coming to be believed by careful 

 psychologists everywhere. Yet one must be 

 very careful how he states such beliefs else he 

 will be thought overcredulous, or in league with 

 the poor wretches who make a living by im- 

 posing on the ignorant and gullible. The laws 

 of telepathy are, one may safely say, abso- 

 lutely unknown to any human being and ig- 

 norance of such laws makes all the mouthings 

 about occultism of the most foolish and ridicu- 

 lous sort. Beyond doubt such a thing as 

 thought transference does occur under excep- 

 tional conditions; but control over such trans- 



* A careful report of this fake case was printed 

 in the London Daily News for October 

 17th, 1871. 



