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THIS review of the achievements and hopes of psychical research appears to be written without bias and with an undiminished confidence in the future. It wisely concentrates on the psychological aspects of this kind of research, and does not claim any authenticity for the physical phenomena which have so largely figured in its records. “In view,” we read, “of the more immediate results of real value which may be secured from a study of the subjective phenomena of psychical research it is obvious that, unless a physical medium is willing sooner or later to submit himself frankly and honestly to every reasonable test proposed by the best scientific minds, it is comparatively useless for a researcher to spend his limited time in inconclusive sittings for the alleged marvels of telekinesis or materialisation.”
Apollonius: or The Present and Future of Psychical Research
By E. N. Bennett. (To-day and To-morrow Series.) Pp. 95. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Apollonius: or The Present and Future of Psychical Research. Nature 121, 569 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121569c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121569c0