FACTS AND FANCIES.

NZ Truth, Issue 771, 14 August 1920, Page 3

FACTS AND FANCIES.

Dear "Truth," — Great men who carry forward the beacon of knowledge deserve all honor, but only insofar and as long as their teaching is founded on realities. The recent revelations of Tom Driver demonstrate Sir Conan Doyle's lack of a systematic application of ' the inductive method of thought, "which is the impregnable' basis of all science — Thou ehalt not begin to speculate without material; thou ehalt base thy deductions, rules and axioms on palpable realities. All thinking must begin with data — some fragment of a real phenomena. Your contributor, W. H. Stewart, m common with all "spook" exponents, arrives at his conclusions by use of deduction. • True knowledge can be gained only through the instrumentality of reason, from experience. -Mir. Stewart and his fellow "spookists" think otherwise or they would accept the challenges of the N.Z. Psychio Investigation Society, as issued m this paper demanding that the vaporings of N.Z. mediums and platform ' spirit apologists be proved to be more than moonshine. , Why the strange silence? —Tours, eto, W. WHITE. Nelson.