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SIR OLIVER LODGE says (p. 53) that he would “interfere with the course of nature,” regarded as a mechanically determinate problem, even by lifting a log. Why so? The course of nature is exactly what happens, is it not? It is the business of scientific men to find out the course of nature, and the various connections which give it coherence and consistency and determinancy. This has been largely done, even in vital processes: and in the obscurer regions of psychics it seems probable that the course would be determinate if we knew all the circumstances. In any case we have nothing else but the course of nature to go by, in the determination of its laws, and that psychic phenomena are natural phenomena is, it seems to me, the only rational view to take.
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HEAVISIDE, O. Psychophysical Interaction.. Nature 68, 102 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068102b0
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