[Letters to Editor]

Abstract

LIKE Mr. Campbell Swinton, Dr. Lotsy confuses psychical research with spiritualism; he then charges me with reproaching Huxley for refusing to be interested in the latter! If he will again read carefully through the third paragraph of my article and follow it logically with the beginning of the fourth, he will see how far he has wandered from my meaning. He then selects the rarest and most puzzling of all psychical phenomena, namely, the ideoplastic moulding of teleplasm into forms resembling “portions of personalities”, and says that I extend my reproach to all who refuse to consider this as a valid phenomenon worthy of scientific study! This would be rather like reproaching a peasant who lived in the middle of Asia for refusing to believe in the existence of submarines when he had never even seen the sea!