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INTRODUCTION.
In laying the following incidents of my Seer- ship before my reader, I have, after careful consideration, decided to make use of the usual Spiritualistic phraseology ; because, even if it be not all that could be desired, it is simple and easily understood.
Professor Huxley said that it is inadvisable to coin new words to take the place of old ones, for, even if they be more scientific, the old ones at least have the merit of existence. It is, in my opinion, a great pity that words such as “ Telekinesis” and ‘“ Parakinesis” should have been coined to take the place of “ move- ment without contact” and “movement with contact.” If this pseudo-scientific, Graeco- Roman jargon in any way explained things I would say by all means use it; but it does not. In fact, nearly all that it does do is to make a few people appear to be learned and to render confusion more confounded, For years the plough-boy has been pawning his watch, and scientists (with a few grand exceptions) have
In laying the following incidents of my Seer- ship before my reader, I have, after careful consideration, decided to make use of the usual Spiritualistic phraseology ; because, even if it be not all that could be desired, it is simple and easily understood.
Professor Huxley said that it is inadvisable to coin new words to take the place of old ones, for, even if they be more scientific, the old ones at least have the merit of existence. It is, in my opinion, a great pity that words such as “ Telekinesis” and ‘“ Parakinesis” should have been coined to take the place of “ move- ment without contact” and “movement with contact.” If this pseudo-scientific, Graeco- Roman jargon in any way explained things I would say by all means use it; but it does not. In fact, nearly all that it does do is to make a few people appear to be learned and to render confusion more confounded, For years the plough-boy has been pawning his watch, and scientists (with a few grand exceptions) have
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