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Excerpt from Metaphysical Phenomena: Methods and Observations
In all this they have been powerfully assisted by Professor Charles Richet, the distinguished physiologist of Paris, whose name and fame are almost as well known in this country as in his own, and who gave the special evening. Lecture to the British Association on the occa sion of its semi-international meeting at Dover in I 899.
In France it so happens that these problems have been attacked chie?y by biologists and medical men, whereas in this country they have attracted the attention chie?y, though not exclusively, of physicists and chemists among men of science. This gives a desirable diversity to the point of view, and adds to the value of the work of the French investigators. Another advantage they possess is that they have no amere-pewée towards religion or the spiritual world. Frankly, I expect they would con fess themselves materialists, and would disclaim all sym pathy with the view of a number of enthusiasts in this country, who have sought to make these ill-understood facts the basis for a kind of religious cult in which faith is regarded as more important than knowledge, and who contemn the attitude of scientific men, even of those few who really seek to observe and understand the phenomena.
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