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explanation as I have so far seen. Ordinary scientists, the 
unfortunate plain man and the practical person have no chance 
ere Iam afraid. It would seem that there is no royal road 
to understand Relativity. It must be approached by the 
same laborious track that has been responsible for its incep- 
tion and development, namely, by the way of the higher 
mathematics. 
The problem of the state of mind of those, including the 
main author of Relativity, who have indulged in these popular 
explanations, and by means of verbal catachreses have pre- 
tended to give (in the words of Einstein) ‘“‘an exact insight into 
the theory’ is a problem of which I see no possible explana- 
tion whatever. 
PsycHIcAL RESEARCH. 
It is not a little curious that Sir Oliver Lodge, one of the 
much also as the subject has occupied a committee of bishops 
at the Lambeth Conference in 1920, and was also in evidence 
at the British Association meeting at Cardiff in the same year, 
it is clear that this much abused and dubious line of investiga- 
tion, Psychical Research, at the present moment, is claiming 
more and more attention. It is not a subject included within 
the Sectional work of this Congress, but, following our model 
the British Association, there is perhaps no great harm in 
widening our outlook occasionally. I do not proprose to do 
more than allude to it here. Its votaries, like the Somphdaeal 
wider 
access to the first few numbers of this beautifully presented 
publication, which equals that of any other serious quarterly. 
it lays claim to a scientific treat- 
entirely different way. the | 
Crawford and the Goligher circle, the Dowsing or Divining 
or any specific thing of this sort, but 
the following remarks by Dr. F. C. ! Aahadis 
of July 1920, which conclude his plea for a fair examinatio 
the whole subject :— 
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