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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 3a

Professor Hyslop, Ph. D

Professor Hyslop, Ph. D.

I will not enter into details concerning the vast strides which the study of this subject has made in America. It will be sufficent to state that from North to South the people are permeated with it and that the adherents in the United States of the explanatory hypothesis accepted by Wallace, Crookes, Lodge, Zöllner, Lombroso, and others, are to be counted by the million. Amongst the leaders Professor Hyslop, Doctor of Philosophy and the talented Principal of the Columbia University, holds a foremost place. Like Sir Oliver Lodge he has been conducting some of those remarkable cross-correspondence tests which have been taken as supplying crucial demonstration that this life does not end all; that the human personality survives the ordeal of so-called death; that the next world is not some distant place away among the stars; and that its ethereal beings, who formerly lived upon the earth, can, and do, return and hold converse with those whom they knew in the flesh.

Professor Hyslop declares that "the chasm which is usually supposed to exist between an embodied and disembodied spirit has no excuse for its existence except the imagination of unscientific men. It is flatly against all the laws and analogies of Nature and absolutely inexcusable in the minds of men who make the slightest profession of Science."

He was interviewed respecting the important deliverance of Sir Oliver Lodge, as set forth in the foregoing pages, and in reply to the New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph declared emphatically that what Sir Oliver Lodge had stated was perfectly true. "Only ignorant people" he declares, in unison with all other Scientific investigators, "now doubt that Mrs. Piper (one of the world's most highly developed and reliable mediums) and such as she, can communicate with the Spirit world. . . I have talked with Dr. Hodgson myself, and as for Frederick Myers, why, talked with him only yesterday."