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4. If I were to give an absolutely irrefutable test, “Ar registered at Lloyd's,” to nine of the greatest sceptics alive, and were to print their letters as testimony, the tenth man—or his office-boy— would say: ‘‘ Ah, yes! but they were a lot of fools! Now if you can only give me a test J will write you a letter, and that will convince everybody!” The credulity of the sceptic is marvellous. If he receives a convincing proof that the phenomena really ao occur he hastens to impart the news to his late com- panions, and is actually surprised to find that they dare to imply that he is zon compos mentis. It is most awfully funny to see the erstwhile Socrates called a deluded idiot by his former disciples, simply because he has arned another fact; and to note the fury with which he resents ‘the ignorant denials” which were once his own “ magnificent arguments.”
5. Whilst being willing to place at the dis- posal of any investigator facts which may be of use to him in his researches, I am not in the least axaxzeus to con- vince sceptics, And although I am
4. If I were to give an absolutely irrefutable test, “Ar registered at Lloyd's,” to nine of the greatest sceptics alive, and were to print their letters as testimony, the tenth man—or his office-boy— would say: ‘‘ Ah, yes! but they were a lot of fools! Now if you can only give me a test J will write you a letter, and that will convince everybody!” The credulity of the sceptic is marvellous. If he receives a convincing proof that the phenomena really ao occur he hastens to impart the news to his late com- panions, and is actually surprised to find that they dare to imply that he is zon compos mentis. It is most awfully funny to see the erstwhile Socrates called a deluded idiot by his former disciples, simply because he has arned another fact; and to note the fury with which he resents ‘the ignorant denials” which were once his own “ magnificent arguments.”
5. Whilst being willing to place at the dis- posal of any investigator facts which may be of use to him in his researches, I am not in the least axaxzeus to con- vince sceptics, And although I am
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