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Updated: May 23, 2025
That theory certainly does drive the cold calm psychical researcher back upon the primitive explanation: 'A ghaist's a ghaist for a' that! We must come to this, we must relapse into savage and superstitious psychology, if once we admit a 'phantasmogenetic agency. But science is in quest of Truth, regardless of consequences. Cock Lane Ghost discredited. Popular Theory of Imposture. Dr. Johnson.
Now this is a queer result of science, common- sense, cheap newspapers, popular education, and progress in general. We may all confess to a belief in ghosts, because we call them 'phantasmogenetic agencies, and in as much of witchcraft as we style 'hypnotic suggestion'. So great, it seems, is the force of language! Bias in belief.
During his absence in the country, his 'co-walker' had visited the house at which he intended to stay! Coincidences of this kind, then, gave rise to the belief in this branch of second sight. Though fairies are the 'phantasmogenetic agencies' in second sight, a man may acquire the art by magic.
These remarks of the ghost, were, at least, explicit and intelligible. The theory which he stated with an honourable candour, and in language perfectly lucid, appears to have been adopted by Mr. Frederick Myers, but he puts it in a different style. Myers says 'phantasmogenetic agency, we say 'ghost'. J'appelle un chat, un chat, et Rollet un fripon.
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