THE LAW OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

THE LAW

OF

PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

FOR THE

SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF HYPNOTISM,
SPIRITISM, MENTAL THERAPEUTICS,
Etc.

BY

THOMSON JAY HUDSON, Ph.D., LL.D.

AUTHOR OF "A SCIENTIFIC DEMONSTRATION OF THE FUTURE LIFE,"
"THE DIVINE PEDIGREE OF MAN," ETC.

SIXTIETH THOUSAND

CHICAGO
A.C. McCLURG & CO.
1904

Copyright
By A.C. McClurg and Co.
a.d. 1893


UNIVERSITY PRESS, JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

TO THE

THE COMPANION OF MY YOUTH, THE STEADFAST FRIEND OF MY MANHOOD, MYMENTOR ALWAYS,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR.

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PREFACE.

I do not expect this book to stand upon its literary merits; for if itis unsound in principle, felicity of diction cannot save it, and ifsound, homeliness of expression cannot destroy it. My primary objectin offering it to the public is to assist in bringing Psychologywithin the domain of the exact sciences. That this has never beenaccomplished is owing to the fact that no successful attempt has beenmade to formulate a working hypothesis sufficiently comprehensive toembrace all psychic phenomena. It has, however, long been felt by theablest thinkers of our time that all psychic manifestations of thehuman intellect, normal or abnormal, whether designated by the nameof mesmerism, hypnotism, somnambulism, trance, spiritism, demonology,miracle, mental therapeutics, genius, or insanity, are in some wayrelated; and consequently, that they are to be referred to some generalprinciple or law, which, once understood, will simplify and correlatethe whole subject-matter, and possibly remove it from the domain ofthe supernatural. The London Society for Psychical Research, whoseramifications extend all over the civilized world, was organized forthe purpose of making a systematic search for that law. The Societynumbers among its membership many of the ablest scientists now living.Its methods of investigation are purely scientific, and painstaking

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