MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 13

MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD.

SB WILLIAM EAMSAX SCEPTICAL. ' AND "HrilBCG." % am convinced that many of these; '-fs-tations" are merely humbug.' . In Sir William Ramsay, the cmiISttst. laconical* sums up the do-: t- th- seance* of the Psychical Re- j Sir Oliver Lodge. Principal of Xs£ Iβ onr last announced at a meeting; SNta Psychical Eesearc-h Society that at! conducted by the society privately Se d oXr r worid C had'b O een received, "pur-j rtfr"" to emanate from the late Edmund 1 JSney. the late llichard Hodgson, and the , , „ F . T.'. H. livers. »I have." said Sir William Ramsay, j '■•/•eased to read tiiis port of thlaff. Indeed, j I long aco ceased to believe in it. That Sir i Oliver Lodge is absolutely sincere in what I : sars I have no doubt. I am convinced > •tat t« believes entirely the truth of what j MIX sees, or heard. Personally, however. | I caa ascribe these so-called phenomena | pD another world to hallucination and j ncibinr &■*-■ ■'I nay mention that I have been a mem- | 6er cf "the council of the Psychical Re- | Society, and have been present at JcsßV seances. But I have severed my con- j jxtion with the society. Why? Well, be : j erase, in my opiuion. the -manifestations' developed eventually into the merely •aosflv." I am convinced, in my own iiad. that many of these -manifestations- ■ tit merely 'hanibu'j.' I "Far more woudorful phenomena than those described by Sir Oliver Lodge have been spo'ien of by Sir William Crooses. lie 13= explained some of thotn to mc." I c;'.sE ot doubt tie word of Sir William Crooies. But 1 have not seen these things uiyse f, and ansz. therefore, remain a sceptic." i Asked if it would, in his opinion, c* er be possible to establish beyond question tie identity of a seeder of a message from tie spirit world. Sir William shook his head icd contented himself with .1 shrug of tha EiOßlaer?. He declined, in fact, to make a | sntemeEt. ! Sir William Eamsay is Professor of 1 Chemistry at University College. London, ■ tid a scientist if world-wide distinction. He discovered the gaseous eiements xenon, irrpioo. ;.nd neon, and was joint discoverer iri'ii LOril Kay'eich of the element argon, j ' - ________ :