ADVENTURINGS IN THE PSYCHICAL

Adventurings in the
Psychical

BY
H. ADDINGTON BRUCE

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1914

Copyright, 1914,
By Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved

Published, April, 1914

THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

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PREFACE

The present volume is somewhat in the natureof a sequel to “The Riddle of Personality,”published six years ago. In that book I reviewedthe results of modern psychological research inthe realm of the abnormal and the seeminglysupernormal, with the special purpose of makingclear their bearings on the problem of the natureand possibilities of man. Having this specialpurpose in mind, it was inadvisable to attemptany topical and detailed treatment of the phenomenamade the subject of scientific investigation.Such a method of treatment, no matterhow it might have added to the interest of thebook, would inevitably have obscured its messageto the reader.

Now, however, I have undertaken this verything, in the hope both of reinforcing the viewof personality set forth in the earlier work, andof contributing something towards a wider knowledge[vi]of the progress science is making in thenaturalization of the supernatural, to borrow Mr.Frank Podmore’s happy phrase. Especially haveI tried to bring out the exceedingly practicalcharacter of many of the discoveries made bythose scientists who, despite the often contemptuouscriticism of their colleagues, have valiantlypersisted in their adventurings in the psychical.The world has undoubtedly been the gainer, andrichly the gainer, by their labors; and it surelyis well worth while to survey in some detail thefield they have explored and the results of theirexplorations.

H. Addington Bruce.
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
February, 1914.

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