Proceedings of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, 1875-1879.

  • Psychological Society of Great Britain
Date:
1880
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    more plainly than tlieir bodies were seen before by the natural eye. The Soul would appear as the substance of the Man and the molecular body as a mere clothing of the Soul, that is in fact the Man. We should see that Soul (or Spirit) often exercising influences upon other substances outside the body, and often enabled to hold direct communication with the Souls having other bodies without the intervention of those bodies. We should doubtless see forms like our own, but which, being of non- molecular structure, we could not see with our molecular vision. The world thus revealed would possibly be a reflex of that we call our world. All space might well be peopled with some forms of being— but while this muddy vesture of decay doth grossly hem us in we cannot see it. This is but one of the vast regions that present them- selves to the Psychologist for exploration. I ask you, then, to give your hearty co-operation in the great work that lies before us. It is not dull work, nor tedious work, for every step opens to you new wonders. It is not harsh and rugged as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute. It teems with questions the most interesting—the most elevating—that could engage the intelligence. We believe that by instituting the viva voce examinations of witnesses, we have given a new and vastly increased impetus to the progress of Psychological Science, enlisting, as it does, the ears and thoughts of those who could not give the needful attention to mere disquisition. You can best promote this great work by your presence at these amusing and instructive investi- gations, submitting doubts, asking particulars and suggest- ing explanations. That is the present duty of this Society, and to that we earnestly invite you, believing that it has opened the true pathway to the certain triumphs that await fraM^TlTUTE OF PSYCHIATRY ttBRARY [296] S^espignv Park, Lonaon SE5 9^'