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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Not long ago the CRIMSON published an editorial on what it believed to be the scientific status of investigations of the supernormal, as expounded by Sir Oliver Lodge. This editorial made one feel that it was written upon the basis of less than average intelligence and certainly more than average arrogance. The fact that many men, whose very reputations demand for them respect, have seriously examined the phenomena of psychical research is one of the facts which an intelligent writer on the subject must be expected to know; and it is easy to increase the confusion on the subject now so evident in the popular mind.

As a matter of published fact, Sir Oliver Lodge very plainly states that, to his mind, the scientific proof of survival is not yet complete; and almost every other scientific investigator of the subject has his own individual idea of just what is proven and what is not. It is far from fair to accept the adverse opinions of one such investigator to the exclusion of others equally if not more than equally able to judge the matter. In regard to the physical and other phenomena of psychical research it cannot be said too strongly, though it ought to be quite evident, that the true scientist investigates only under conditions which preclude fraud, and never allows himself to trust the honestly of the person he is examining. The CRIMSON refers to Dr. Hall's statement that 'physical manifestations dependent upon mediums can all be produced fraudulently.' It is inconceivable that a realization of what the scientific attitude really is would permit of so completely passing over the reverse conclusions of such, psychologists as Dr. James Hyslop, whose recent book, "Contact with the Other World," is an interesting contribution to the respectable, scientific literature of the subject. And why take all this trouble to try to show that the scientist has been fooled about the physical manifestations when every scientist has said that these in themselves could never prove survival anyhow?

The criticism of the CRIMSON'S editorial is therefore not that it attacked the spiritistic hypothesis, as has been ably done by men so near to us, Dr. Morton Prince, but rather that it clearly showed that it was very far from being conversant with the subject which it sought to judge. SYDNEY A. GROSS 1920.