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Mr. KuUiuir 2)t?el;trfS tho Timo Has Comal'or ScloitKj to IcecogHjjio Spiritualism.A regular London correspondent suvs that ilr, Balfour, the leader of tho op portion, lias recently distinguished himself not only by the deli very of u series of strong political speeches, hut by openly-advocating a thorough scientific investigation of psychic or spiritualistic phenomena. As president of tho Society of Psychical Research he said in an address tliat ho thoughtthe time had com© when the leaders of scientific thought should recognize that there were well attested facts which do not naturally fall Into the framework of the'sciences or of organized experiences.The proposed investigation was different front a scientific cross examination of nature, for they would have to deal with abnormal or incomplete faculties, with exceptional conditions in exception-■ al indivklua 1 s. Ho saw no inhereut impossibility in such half formed senses being sporadically developed in tho human race.- They seemed to eomo across human facts which could not be made by any mauipnla tion to fit i 21 to the interstices of the accepted view of the psychical world. If that were so, they were engaged in a work of prodigious difficulty. They had a refractory class’of problems to deni with, but it seemed to him that at least they would be able to prove the existence of an outsido world.There was a region not open indeed to experimental observation in tho same way that the more familiar regions of the material world were open, but fromwhich some information could be gleiiaed,and if they could not as the result of their exertions - discover what laws these strange phenomena obeyed, it would at all events be something to have shown as a matter of ascertained fact that there wefo things in heaven; and oh earth which wet© beyond tho philosophy of even the mott scientific.
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Sioux County Herald
Orange City, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 25, 1894
Page 8
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