Mr. Crookes and Eva Fay

Abstract

IN Dr. Carpenter's eagerness to show that his statements about Mr. Crookes and Eva Fay had some basis of fact, he seems entirely to have forgotten the real issue which he has himself raised, and which is of great importance to all engaged in the study of these tabooed subjects. The question simply is, whether any investigation of the alleged abnormal powers of individuals, however painstaking and complete it may be, and however decisive its results, is to be branded with opprobrious epithets, without any proof of error or fallacy, but merely on the dicta of newspaper writers and alleged “exposers.”