Modern Psychical Phenomena

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Pàgina 161 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Pàgina 263 - Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real.
Pàgina 262 - Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!" "If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out — bang!
Pàgina 260 - The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things— but the oddest part of it all was that, whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty, though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold. "Things flow about so here!
Pàgina 89 - I say it is a scandal that the dispute as to the reality of these phenomena should still be going on, that so many competent witnesses should have declared their belief in them, that so many others should be profoundly interested in having the question determined, and yet that the educated world, as a body, should still be simply in the attitude of incredulity.
Pàgina 12 - The question, then, is reduced to this: Are Man's highest spiritual qualities, into the production of which all this creative energy has gone, to disappear with the rest? Has all this work been done for nothing? Is it all ephemeral, all a bubble that bursts, a vision that fades?
Pàgina 262 - It's only the Red King snoring," said Tweedledee. "Come and look at him!" the brothers cried, and they each took one of Alice's hands, and led her up to where the King was sleeping. "Isn't he a lovely sight?
Pàgina 156 - So, then, the supernatural is possible," but rather, " So, then, the apparition of a ghost is, contrary to received opinion, within the laws of nature— ie, not supernatural.
Pàgina vii - I confess that at times I have been tempted to believe that the Creator has eternally intended this department of nature to remain baffling...
Pàgina 213 - That the demon-theory (not necessarily a deviltheory) will have its innings again is to my mind absolutely certain. One has to be ' scientific ' indeed, to be blind and ignorant enough to suspect no such possibility.

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