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IN NATURE of July 31, Dr. Tillyard, the well-known entomologist, reproaches Huxley for not being interested in the phenomena of what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others call spiritualism. He extends this reproach to all who consider the claim that from “the organism of the medium ‘psychic stuff’, by the moulding of which they [the invisible operators] can produce at will the phenomena of independent voice, levitation, materialisations of portions of their personalities, and so on”, so highly improbable that they refuse to spend their time and energy in the efforts required for obtaining or refuting proof. Yet it is by such limitations, and by them only, that science has hitherto obtained its results.
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LOTSY, J. Science and Psychical Research. Nature 118, 370 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118370a0
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