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Example sentences for "psychical research"

  • This anecdote affords much joy to the superstitious souls who deal in Psychical Research, or Ghost Hunting.

  • We have from Greece and Rome but few literary examples of 'Psychical Research,' few collections of books on 'Bogles' as Scott called them.

  • Still, the savage and traditional evidence is nearly as much eschewed by psychical research, as the living and contemporary evidence is by Folklore.

  • I was careful not to tread upon the domains of psychical research, although many of my hearers were eager that I should do so.

  • He does not try to establish the facts; but to establish, or at least to examine them, is the first business of Psychical Research.

  • Man, ondoyant et divers, is the subject alike of anthropology and of psychical research.

  • In the true spirit of psychical research, Kant wrote a letter to Swedenborg, asking for information at first hand.

  • The paper on Psychical Research is added to the volume for convenience and utility.

  • This very desirable state of affairs is partly the result of the conclusions to which I have been led by psychical research.

  • Each chapter is complete in itself, but there is more or less connexion, for each deals with some aspect of the subject to which I have given most attention during the last twelve years--namely, psychical research.

  • I have previously alluded to this interesting and most important fact in my discussion of telepathy, clairvoyance, crystal-gazing, and kindred problems in psychical research.

  • One of the investigators for the Society for Psychical Research, Mr. G.

  • For twenty-five years I have been in touch with the literature of psychical research, and have had acquaintance with numerous 'researchers.

  • Long and earnestly the two friends talked together, and when their walk ended, that December night in 1869, psychical research had at last come definitely into being.

  • The problems under examination are, all of them, problems in psychical research: yet, as will be found, the majority in no small measure depend for elucidation on facts brought to light by the psychopathologists.

  • Psychical research a needful auxiliary for the scientific critic of these.

  • Psychical research a needed auxiliary for the scientific critic of these.

  • Mr. Gladstone has put himself on record against this philistinism, saying that "psychical research is by far the most important work that is being done in the world.

  • Other classes of phenomena once regarded as miraculous have been transferred to the domain of natural processes by the investigations and discoveries that have been made in the field of psychical research.

  • The attitude of Psychical Research; its relation to Psychology 50 III.

  • But the results of psychical research, the deductions which we may draw, and the lessons we may learn, teach us of the continued life of the soul, of the nature of that life, and of how it is influenced by our conduct here.

  • And yet you are one of the chief of the investigators in the field of psychical research.

  • I continued to study works, both English and foreign, on psychical research.

  • I feared, if I showed my strong interest in psychical research, especially if I was known to attend séances or anything of that kind, it might be considered unsuitable in a clergyman, and might injure my prospects.

  • I got successfully through the academic year, in spite of the fact that I wasted a great deal of time on "psychical research" and had other interruptions from work which I would fain have done.

  • At this juncture the London Society for Psychical Research sent Mr. Richard Hodgson, B.

  • A series of articles of great value to students of psychical research.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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