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Title: Telepathy
Genuine and Fraudulent

Author: W. W. Baggally

Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29151]

Language: English

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TELEPATHY

GENUINE AND FRAUDULENT

BY

W. W. BAGGALLY

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

WITH A PREFACE BY

SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

_First Published in 1917_

PREFATORY NOTE

My friend, Mr. W. W. Baggally, an experienced investigator of
supernormal phenomena, has set down some of his experiences in connexion
with the subject of Telepathy, and I heartily commend his book to the
public as the record of a careful, conscientious, and exceptionally
skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone
more competent by training and capacity to examine into the genuineness
of these subtle and elusive phenomena, which yet are of the utmost
importance in the development of psychological science. Telepathy, or
the direct action of mind on mind apart from the ordinary channels of
sense, opens a new chapter; it is not a coping-stone completing an
erection, but a foundation-ston