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ONE wonders who are the onlookers who would be so ‘unwise’ as to elevate any of the three ‘hypotheses’ mentioned by Sir Oliver Lodge (NATURE, October 30, p. 622) to the “high status required of a scientific theory”. Few would dignify even by the term hypothesis what are simply observations. Granted genuine phenomena, how much further are we scientifically? Granted ‘ectoplasm’, can science justify repetitions of the human vivisection necessary to produce it when there is no purpose, except curiosity, in view? Granted an ‘intelligence’ behind the phenomena, can science say to which order amongst the myriad intelligences of Nature such belongs? Granted a ‘spirit’ hypothesis, can science describe or define spirit?
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L., W. Science and Psychical Research. Nature 118, 693–694 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118693a0
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