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MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR
1883–1961
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Mr. Upton Sinclair needs no introduction to the public asa fearless, honest, and critical student of public affairs. But in thepresent book he has with characteristic courage entered a new field,one in which reputations are more easily lost than made, the fieldof Psychic Research. When he does me the honor to ask me to writea few words of introduction to this book, a refusal would imply onmy part a lack either of courage or of due sense of scientific responsibility.I have long been keenly interested in this field; and it isnot necessary to hold that the researches of the past fifty years havebrought any solidly established conclusions in order to feel surethat further research is very much worth while. Even if the resultsof such research should in the end prove wholly negative that wouldbe a result of no small importance; for from many