+ Boston Transcript p5 N 6 ’20 470w
HILL, JOHN ARTHUR. Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130
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“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says, “I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again? Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc; Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.
“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative source.”
+ Booklist 16:297 Je ’20
“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow
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