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MRS PIPER & THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

TRANSLATED & SLIGHTLY ABRIDGED
FROM THE FRENCH OF M. SAGE

BY NORALIE ROBERTSON WITH A
PREFACE BY SIR OLIVER LODGE

SCOTT-THAW CO.
NEW YORK
1904

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

It is obvious that such a body of men, pledged to impartialinvestigation, as the Society for Psychical Research could notofficially stand sponsor to the speculative comments of M. Sage, howeveradmittedly clear-sighted and philosophical that French critic may be.

But the publication of this translation has been actually desired andencouraged by many individuals in the Society, it has been revisedthroughout by a member of their Council, and it is introduced to thegeneral reader by their President.

The Society, indeed, is prepared to accept M. Sage's volume as afaithful and convenient résumé of experiments conducted under its ownauspices, and so far as it contains statements of fact, these statementsare quoted from authoritative sources. For the comments, deductions orcriticisms therein contained, the acute intellect of M. Sage is aloneresponsible.

It remains only to state in detail the principles on which the originaltext has been "slightly abridged" by the translator. No facts orcomments have been left out that bear directly on the main subject ofthe book, the omissions are wholly of matters which might be regarded assuperfluous for the understanding of the case of Mrs Piper. Occasionallyparagraphs have been condensed, a tendency to vague theorising has beenchecked throughout, and certain irrelevant matter has been altogetheromitted. Such omissions are confined, indeed, to single sentences orparagraphs, with only the exception of a somewhat technical discussionof the Cartesian philosophy in Chapter XVII. It had at first beenintended to omit the whole of Chapter XI., as containing only fancifuland non-evidential matter; but statements of this kind form an integralpart of the communications, and so, on the whole, it was thought fairerto retain M. Sage's chapter on the subject, especially as it may befound of popular interest.

The original appendix has been incorporated, after modifications, inChapter XII., since the incident here discussed was in progress as M.Sage wrote and has since been closed. His conjectures as to its possibledevelopment are naturally omitted. Finally all references to theProceedings (or printed reports) of the Society itself have beencarefully verified. In every case the words of the reports themselvesare given in preference to any re-rendering of M. Sage's translations.

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