 It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune time for making an organized and systematic attempt to investigate that large group of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritistic.  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 4701886Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 648 pages
...PSYCHISM. ABOUT a year ago the Society for Psychical Research was founded in England " for the purpose of making an organized and systematic attempt to investigate...terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritualistic." This Society is looked upon hopefully as destined to accomplish, by the scieutilic character of its... | |
 | GEORGE B. SHATTUCK M.D - 1883 - 666 pages
...PSYCHISM. ABOUT a year ago the Society for Psychical Research was founded in England " for the purpose of making an organized and systematic attempt to investigate...terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritualistic." This Society is looked upon hopefully as destined to accomplish, by the scientific character of it)... | |
 | Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) - 1883 - 384 pages
...The Green, Richmond, London. VOL. I. [3] THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune time for making an organised and systematic attempt to investigate that large group of debatable phenomena designated... | |
 | 1884 - 256 pages
...Alexander Calder. Hon. Secretary: Edmund Gurney. Assistant Secretary: ET Bennett. Objects. — An organised and systematic attempt to investigate that large group...of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as "psychical," "mesmeric," and "spiritualistic." Offices. — 14 Deans Yard, Westminster, SW The Assistant... | |
 | M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 780 pages
...purpose of making an •.rfranisi-d and systematic attempt to investigate that lnrge group of debateable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric psychical,...spiritualistic. From the recorded testimony of many compctcnt witnesses, past and present, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence... | |
 | 1886 - 592 pages
...Proèssor H. Sidgwick, of Cambridge, "for the rarpose of making an organised attempt to nvestigate that large group of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric, ïsychical, and spiritualistic." Six committees were appointed to examine (i) the nature and extent... | |
 | Daniel Hack Tuke - 1892 - 854 pages
...PBTCHXCAX. RESEARCH, SOCIETY FOR. Tlir object of this Society is to investigate in a systematic manner that large group of debatable phenomena designated...terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritualistic. It is thought that amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which... | |
 | 1910 - 1102 pages
...task can be given than by quoting briefly from the preliminary announcement issued by its founders : It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune...designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritistic. From the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses, past and present, inCESARE LOMBROSO... | |
 | 1897 - 136 pages
...Society for Psychical Research," founded in London in 1882, for the purpose of making an organized attempt to investigate that large group of debatable...terms as mesmeric, psychical, and spiritualistic. The examination of telepathy (the supposed communication between two minds, at a distance, without... | |
 | 1907 - 616 pages
...convictions that the movement for psychical research was born. The prospectus of the society says : " It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune...organized and systematic attempt to investigate that large ground of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as ' mesmeric,' ' psychical,' ' spiritistic.'... | |
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