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connexion with the subject of Telepathy, and I heartily commend his book to the public as the record of a careful, conscientious, and exceptionally skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone more competent by training and capacity to examine into the genuineness of these subtle and elusive phenomena, which yet are of the utmost importance in the development of psychological science. Telepathy, or the direct action of mind on mind apart from the ordinary channels of sense, opens a new chapter; it is not a coping-stone completing an erection, but a foundation-stone on which to build.
OLIVER J. LODGE
CONTENTS
PART I
GENUINE TELEPATHY
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Experimental Telepathy 1
Spontaneous Telepathy 18
Telepathy between Human Beings and Animals 30
PART II
FRAUDULENT TELEPATHY
Accounts of Cases 35
Description of Various Methods used by Public Performers for effecting their So-called Transmission of Thought 57
PART III
THE ZANCIGS
Public Experiments 68
Private Experiments 70
Experiments before Committees 82
Importance of establishing Genuine Telepathy as a Scientific Fact 92
TELEPATHY
PART I
GENUINE TELEPATHY
Sir William F. Barrett, one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, more than forty years ago tried some experiments which led him to believe that something then new to science, which he provisionally called "thought transference" and which is now known as "telepathy," really existed.
At the first general meeting of the Society, on the 17th July 1882, he read a paper entitled "First Report on Mind Reading."
Since that date the Society has carried out a great number of experiments which tend to show that telepathy is a scientific fact. The evidence for its existence is twofold--that which can be gathered experimentally, and that which arises spontaneously. To the first category belong those experiments in