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KINDLY allow me to correct a printer's error in my letter of last week. In describing the case of so-called thought-reading examined by myself in the clergyman's family in Derbyshire, I wrote: “The failures in my examination did not amount to one in ten, and were a smaller fraction when the children were not embarrassed by strangers”, &c. The word “my” was printed “any”, thus destroying the meaning of the sentence. I will just add that the clergyman in question is an old graduate of Trinity College, Dublin; his integrity is above suspicion, and even did not his position as a Christian minister negative the idea of trickery, the last experiment which I described disposes of this very natural explanation.
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BARRETT, W. Mind and Muscle-Reading. Nature 24, 236 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024236e0
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