Phenomena of Spiritualism

William Crookes

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Legare Street Press

Published in 1874, this collection of reports by the chemist and scientific journalist Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) describes his controversial research into psychic forces. In 1870, Crookes decided that science had a duty to study preternatural phenomena associated with spiritualism, and he spent the next four years carrying out experiments which tested famous mediums including D. D. Home, Kate Fox and Florence Cook. This fascinating work describes Crookes' witnessing of the movement of bodies at a distance, rappings, changes in the weights of bodies, levitation of individuals and automatic writing. Although he was strongly criticised by his contemporaries, Crookes would not be deterred from his psychical research, demonstrating that he thought all natural phenomena worthy of scientific investigation. A great experimentalist, Crookes refused to be bound by tradition and convention, and his story reveals one of the important episodes in the history of the spiritualist movement.

Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism

Cambridge University Press

Excerpt from Researches Into the Phenomena of Modern SpiritualismOf all the eminent scientists who have pains takingly investigated the mysterious phenomena of Modem Spiritualism - and there are many - Sir William Crookes must be easily recognized as leader.His eminence as a discoverer and an inventor and his vast services to the world as a chemist have given to his "Researches into the Phenomena of Modem Spiritualism" a value and potency that could not attach to labors of men equally honest and painstaking, but devoid of his scientific attainments and great reputation.Beginning his investigations of Spiritual Phenomena over a third of a century ago, when the prejudice against psychic research was much stronger than today, and pursuing his researches with all the care, caution, and accuracy that marked his other scientific work; he rendered his studies in this new field doubly valuable to the world by his conscientious record of all the details and conditions and his noble boldness in publishing the same to the world.The record of his experiments with Daniel Douglas Home and Miss Florence Cook as psychics, all conducted under test conditions, must ever stand among the most marvelous of human experiences and an impregnable defence of the spirituality of man's nature and of his ability to survive the shock of death.The articles, here quoted, first appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Science, of which Sir William was the able editor; and they have been supplemented by extracts from the speech of the eminent scientist delivered from the chair of the British Association, at its Bristol meeting, in 1898, in which speech he declared over again his convictions concerning the value of the results of scientific investigation into what has been known as the realm of the occult.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Researches Into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism (Classic Reprint)

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from Remarkable Spirit Manifestations Professor Crooks, among learned persons, is acknowledged as one of the most scientific men of the world, but as this pamphlet will come in the hands of many persons not versed in science, a few words may be said of his great achievement: He is a great chemist and discoverer of the new metal thallium; also, of the supra gaseous state in which matter exists in high vacua, and is the deviser of the radiometer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Remarkable Spirit Manifestations (Classic Reprint)

The Chemical News and the Journal of Physical Science, 1878, Vol. 37: A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts, and Manufactures (Classic Reprint)

Science & Math

Chemistry

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