Manual of psychometry : the dawn of a new civilization / by Joseph Rodes Buchanan.

  • Joseph Rodes Buchanan
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    PREFACE. This volume has been somewhat hastily prepared, to fulfil the promise recently made to the public of a Manual of Psy- CHOMETRY — a work to introduce the subject to the general reader—not an elaborate memoir for scientists, which need not be offered until it is called for. Public opinion on philosophic subjects is always shallow, superficial, and erroneous, until the thought of the best thinkers has enlisted the co-operation of leading minds In reference to Psychometry, the profound productions of Prof. Denton have attracted far less attention than that simple exhibition of Ps3^chometry which is called Mind Reading, which I have never thought worthy of any special cultivation, ])ut which, as an exhibition, answers the purpose of challenging skepticism, and giving to those who are pro- foundly ignorant on this subject, facts which compel their reluctant attention, and thus prepare them for scientific in- novation. When a full exposition shall be required, many volumes will be necessary — one for the medical profession, one for hygienists, one for geologists, one for astronomers, one for ethnologists, one for physiologists, one for historians, one for pneumatologists, one for the devotees of religion and duty, and ten for the students of Anthropology—for all these subjects are illuminated and developed by Psj^chometrv. I cannot now promise that much of this will ever be writ- ten by myself — as it might have been ere this — for my life is too far advanced, and co-operation does not yet ap- pear. But as Psychometry developes all these departments of knowledge, these works must all be written. As this volume contains the reports of many psychometric experiments with Mrs. B., I would state in advance that all sucli experiments which I report are as pure and true an illustration of Psychometry as possible—an accurate report of mental impressions as they arose, recorded as the}^ were
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