Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Volume 14

Couverture
List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.
 

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Page 152 - ... in the latter part of the last, and the early part of the present century...
Page 614 - ... took out a large lump of cinder red-hot at the lower part, and placed the red part on the handkerchief. Under ordinary circumstances it would have been in a blaze. In about half a minute, he took it off the handkerchief with his hand, saying, 'As the power is not strong, if we leave the coal longer it will burn.
Page 85 - I concluded that I had a clear case of malarial fever to deal with. My diagnosis was largely strengthened by the fact that he had within a few weeks past been treated for ague. It did not occur to me at the time that there was obscure and deep-seated abscess of the liver.
Page 371 - ... the hills, and rolled away like retreating thunder over the plain. It was no longer the roar of the wind. As in the wandering prelude of an organ melody, note trod upon note with slow, majestic footsteps, until they gathered to a theme...
Page 361 - how else was it possible that the date, the I3th of September, could have been got at? For I never told the date, until I wrote it.' Now, my story had NO DATE; but seeing, when I looked over the proof, the great importance of having a date, I (CD) wrote in, unconsciously...
Page 438 - He is not dead, this friend — not dead, But in the path we mortals tread Got some few, trifling steps ahead And nearer to the end; So that you too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
Page 48 - I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow "scientific" bounds. Assuredly, the real world is of a different temperament, — more intricately built than physical science allows. So my objective and my subjective conscience both hold me to the over-belief which I express. Who knows whether the faithfulness of individuals here below to their own poor over-beliefs may not actually help God in turn to be more effectively faithful to his own greater tasks?
Page 147 - Eliot assured him he had not spoken of it to a human being — not even to Linwood ; and that he had enjoined strict secrecy on Kisel, on whose obedience he could rely. " Thank you — thank you, Mr. Lee...
Page 360 - All the time I was dressing next morning, I thought — What a preposterous thing to have so very distinct a dream about nothing! and why Miss Napier? for I never heard of any Miss Napier. That same Friday night, I read. After the reading, came into my retiring-room, Mary Boyle and her brother, and the Lady in the red shawl whom they present as 'Miss Napier!
Page 360 - Pseudo-presentiments, ie, more or less instantaneous hallucinations of memory, which make it seem to one that something which now excites or astonishes him has been prefigured in a recent dream, or in the form of some other warning, although this seeming is wholly unfounded, and although the supposed prophecy really succeeds its own fulfillment.

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