The Society for Psychical Research did not pretend to have any theory when it started out to accumulate facts in this field. All that it endeavored to do was to see that the stories everywhere ...

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L. Anne Delgado is a PhD candidate in Victorian Studies at Indiana University. She is currently finishing work on her dissertation: "Cosmic Plots: Psychical Science, Alternative Spiritualities, and ...

REFERRING to the discussion on this subject in previous issues of NATURE, might one ask: Is there not confusion regarding the aims of science and of psychical research, which at present are ...

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In her youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the “true Messiah.” ...

I BEG space for a short comment on Dr. Tillyard's remarks in NATURE of October 23, so far as they concern my letter which appeared in the issue of October 2. Dr. Tillyard misrepresented what I said ...

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