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Excerpt from The Alfalfa Looper This insect, in the Palouse region of Washington, passes the winter as hibernating pupa and probably also as the adult moth, since much-battered adults are to be seen early in the spring. Late in May and throughout June the adults are to be seen in the alfalfa and clover, darting rapidly away when disturbed. They are active in bright sunlight, feeding on the nectar from the clover and alfalfa blossoms. The ¿igh...

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Excerpt from Science and a Future LifeThe elaborate Reports of the Society for Psychical Research seldom get beyond the shelves of its mem bers, and it is possible that few of this class read them with any such care and patience as students are made to bestow upon Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. I know one prominent member who had my own lengthy report on his table for six months without knowing what it was about. If those who profess allegiance t...

Excerpt from Contact With the Other World: The Latest Evidence as to Communication With the DeadIt was at least impossible to evade the discussion Of the doctrine of spiritualism in the face of its claims. No matter what our deci sion about telepathy, dousing, telekinesis, and hypnotism, the ap parent meaning Of apparitions and mediumistic phenomena re quired further consideration, and whether we believed or dishe lieved in the Spiritistic int...

Excerpt from Enigmas of Psychical Research The present volume may be considered as a sup plement to the one on Science and a Future Life, which has been published. In that work I gave a very inadequate summary of the phenomena bearing upon Telepathy and Apparitions, and I said nothing what ever regarding several other types of phenomena hav ing an equal scientific interest. I was' occupied in that volume with facts related more directly to th...

Excerpt from Psychical Research and the Resurrection There is no class of phenomena that have a greater interest for many persons at the present day than those which are attributed to subliminal conscious ness or secondary personality. These terms figure so prominently in all discussions of obscure problems in psychology, and especially in literature which objects to spiritistic theories, that it may be well to make clear what they mean. Abo...

Excerpt from Democracy: A Study of Government Carlyle, after showing Emerson the House of Commons, thought he would annihilate his friend's optimism in politics by abruptly asking him, "Don't you believe in the Devil now?" The memory of this incident, and the condition of things in this country, suggested that the title for the present essay should be "The Devil's Harness." But publishers might fear a bon mot for a title, and the advocates of...

Excerpt from Problems of Philosophy: Or Principles of Epistemology and Metaphysics Of course there were differences of opinion regarding the nature of cosmic unity, whether of the pluralistic or monistic type, but all agreed that there was a unity of some kind, so that, in so far as the process of knowledge was concerned, the differences of Opinion turned on the sensory or intellectual, or in modern parlance, the materialistic and the spiritu...

Excerpt from Psychical Research and Survival American Society for Psychical Research, describes the genesis and the work of psychical research with special reference to this central problem, and deals at length with its scientific, philosophic, religious, and moral implications. Nor does he leave the subject in the air, as is usually the case in books on psychical research, but, basing himself on the experience of many years of personal inves...

Excerpt from The Elements of Ethics The present work is designed as an introductory treatise upon the fundamental problems of theoretical ethics, and therefore to obtain standing ground from which to consider the practical questions that are affected by general principles. The book may seem rather an elaborate treatise for an introduction, but so great are the complications of ethical problems, so manifold are their interests, and so various ...

Excerpt from Logic and Argument This work has been written to supply a double want, namely, the combination of a purely elementary logic with the art of argumentative discourse. Nor has this last feature of the subject been added out of deference to a revival of an intellectual interest in collegiate debate, but it has been suggested both by the practical value of logic as mental discipline and its close connection with the proper and orderly...

Excerpt from Borderland of Psychical Research The reason for this is very simple. The views which had separated them from ordinary interest were due to a reaction against the more ancient con ception of dreams. We are wont to suppose that men naturally distinguish between their dreams and normal experiences. This, however, is not altogether true. The ancients gave an external or objective meaning to dreams, and savages still do so, a meaning ...

Excerpt from Life After Death: Problems of the Future Life and Its Nature At the present day there is the usual, perhaps more than the usual, passion to know whether, if a man die, he shall live again, and it takes the form of an intenser interest in the nature of the life after death than in the scientific question of the fact. This problem is discussed at some length in this work. It is not easy to satisfy inqui'rers on this point. Most of ...