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Thirty Years of Psychical Research
BEING
A Treatise on Metapsychics
Charles Richet, PhD.
translated from French by Stanley Debrath, M.Inst. C.E.
We have read and re-read, studied and analyzed the works
written on these subjects, and we declare it vastly improbable,
and even impossible, that eminent and upright men such as Sir
William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Reichenbach, A. Russel Wallace,
Lombroso, William James, Schiaparelli, F. W. H. Myers,
Zollner, A. de Rochas, Ochorowicz, Morselli, Sir William Barrett,
Ed Gurney, C. Flammarion, and many others, in spite of their
close attention and their scientific knowledge, should all have been
duped over and over again a hundred times by tricksters or have
been the victims of an astounding credulity. etc
1 On Mesmer's work and the origins of magnetism see the remarkable
article by Ochorowicz, Hypnotism, in the Dictionnaire de Physiologie, C. Richet,
Paris, 1909, viii, PP. 709-777 ; also K. Kiesewetter, Geschichte des neueren Occul-
tismus; geheimwissenschaftliche Systeme von Agrippa bis Karl du Prel, second
edition, Leipzig, 1907. The bibliography of animal magnetism and hypnotism
will be found in M. Dessoir's book.
***
Mrs. Piper, of Boston, studied with extraordinary patience by
William James, and afterwards by R. Hodgson, and then with
equal perseverance by Hyslop, and also by F. Myers, Sir Oliver
Lodge, and Sir William Barrett, has powers of clairvoyance and
cryptesthesia probably greater than any before observed. She
tells those who visit her, at once, and almost without hesitation,
the names of their relatives, with episodes in their lives, unknown
to her visitor, that can be verified only after long and painstaking enquiry.
If there were no other medium in the world but Mrs. Piper
that would be sufficient to establish scientifically the facts of cryptesthesia.
Eusapia Paladino 1 has been studied hundreds of times by the
leading scientific men of Europe. Schiaparelli, Porro, Aksakoff,
G. Finzi, A. and F. Myers, O. Lodge, E. Feilding, Lombroso, A.
de Rochas, Ochorowicz, J. Maxwell, A. de Schrenck-Notzing, C.
Flammarion, Bottazzi, Morselli, Foa, Sabatier, A. de Watteville,
A. de Gramont, Carrington, and many more have all verified with
her the reality of movements without contact and materializations.
***
And full details are never put down; it is important to describe
the smallest circumstances; notes must never be scanty.
In contrast to published work, notes should be prolix to the
point of being wearisome. A profusion of detail in notes written
for one's own use is never a mistake. Everything should be
noted, one always tends to be too concise. It is well that when
several persons have taken part in an experiment that all should
write records. During my experiments with Eusapia in conjunction
with Ochorowicz I dictated notes throughout the experiments,
to a secretary placed in a corner of the room, so that all the
circumstances of every phenomenon should be described without
alterations of any kind. It is to be regretted that this cannot
always be done.
Such experiments are very cogent. So likewise are those given
by Ochorowicz in his excellent book on Mental Suggestion,
which all should read who desire to take note of the many precautions
that should be taken to eliminate causes of error.
1 'The bibliography is a very large one. I specially cite J. Ochorowicz, La
suggestion mentale, Paris, 1884. Ch. Richet, La suggestion mentale et le
calcul des probabilites, Rev. Philosophique, December, 1884. Fr. Myers, On a
telepathic explanation of some so-called spiritualistic phenomena (P. S. P. R.,
1883-1884, 217). Automatic writing, ibid., 188$, p. 1, May, 1887, 209; June
1889, 222. Other curious cases are noted in the second edition of Phan-
tasms of the Living, ii, 67o-671. The experiments by the Misses Creery
reported in the Phantasms of the Living, i, 25, must not be taken into
account, for fraud was proved (Note relating to some of the published
experiments in thought transference, P. S. P. R., 1884, 269-270)