Thought Transference An Application of Modern Thought to Ancient Superstitions
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- Thought Transference An Application of Modern Thought to Ancient Superstitions
- Publication year listed
- 1892
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Thought Transference An Application of Modern Thought to Ancient Superstitions
Author: Oliver Lodge
Year: 1892
A fellow of the Royal Society Professor Oliver Lodge read this paper before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool on April 25 1892 Some people of the late 19th and early 20th centuries wanted to investigate spiritualist phenomena as scientific ones and this paper discusses the possibility of confirmable 'thought transference' between two people while deriding the then common practice of performing public experiments before a crowd "Phantasms and dreams and ghosts crystal gazing premonitions and clairvoyance the region of superstition yes but possibly also the region of fact As taxes on credulity they are trifles compared to the things we are already familiar with only too familiar with stupidly and inanely inappreciative of "