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ABOUT two years ago a plea was made in our columns by Dr. R. J. Tillyard for a wider and more generous outlook on the part of science towards psychical research. The correspondence which followed showed that one of the reasons why scientific investigators hesitated to undertake research into these problems was the uncertainty that, however faithfully they might follow up clues, they were unlikely to be able to reach precise conclusions. There are so many unsolved problems in the natural world to attract the attention of scientific workers, and so many natural mysteries from which they may be able to lift a corner of the veil, that however willing they may be to enter into the field of supernatural or supernormal manifestations, the claims of normal facts and phenomena are too strong to permit them to do so. If few men of science devote themselves to “the scientific study of what are called supernormal phenomena” it must not be assumed, therefore, that they are altogether indifferent to observations and conclusions in that field, any more than it can be assumed that students of atomic constitution have no interest in the structure of the cell.
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Normal and Supernormal Phenomena. Nature 122, 229–231 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122229a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122229a0