The Drama of Love and Death by Edward Carpenter

Author:Edward Carpenter [Carpenter, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781720661818
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Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2018-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 It is of course quite possible that our ordinary consciousness is discontinuous, even down to its minutest elements, and that it is only made up of successive and separate sensations which, as in a cinematograph, follow each other with lightning speed. But even this almost compels us to the assumption of another and profounder and more continuous consciousness beneath, which is the means of the synthesis and comparison of these sensations.

1 Human Personality, op. cit. p. 29.

1 See The Art of Creation, pp. 105–8.

1 This well-known case, given by Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria, is amply confirmed by scores of similar cases which have been carefully examined into and described by modern research.

1 See Proceedings S.P.R. vol. xii. pp. 176–203; quoted by Frederick Myers, Human Personality, ch. v.

2 This is contested by H. Ellis in his World of Dreams, p. 215, but not very successfully, I think.

1 See Myers, op. cit. ch. iii. p. 66; also T. J. Hudson’s interesting account of Zerah Colburn, in Psychic Phenomena (1893), p. 64.

2 Op. cit. p. 100. De Quincey, it will be remembered, in a well-known passage of his Confessions, says:—“Of this at least I feel assured, that there is no such thing as forgetting possible to the mind; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; accidents of the snme sort will also rend away this veil; but alike, whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains forever.”

1 See Journal S.P.R. vol. iii. p. 100; also T. J. Hudson, op. cit. p. 153.

1 New York, 1903, p. 64.

1 See Lombroso, Fenomeni ipnotici e spiritici, Turin, 1909, pp. 28–31.

2 I leave the question of the possibility of the latter open for the present. See Note at end of this chapter.

1 This was no doubt, for instance, the case with Eusapia Paladino—as admitted by her warmest supporters. But it does not contravene the fact, proved by most abundant evidence and experiment, of the astounding physical phenomena which from her early childhood accompanied her, and in some strange way exhaled from her.

1 It is impossible, for instance, to read slowly and in detail such works as A. R. Wallace’s Miracles and Modern Spiritualism, William Crookes’ Researches into Spiritualism, C. Lombroso’s Fenomeni ipnotici e spiritici, and to note the care and exactness with which in each case experiments were conducted, tests devised, and results recorded, without being persuaded that in the mass the conclusions (confirmed in the first two instances by the authors themselves after an interval of twenty or thirty years) are correct. Already a long list of scientific and responsible men, like Charles Richet (professor of physiology at Paris), Camille Flammarion (the well-known astronomer), Professor Zöllner of the Observatory at Leipzig, C. F. Varley the electrician, Sir Oliver Lodge of Birmingham, have made important contributions to the evidence; while others, like Professor De Morgan the mathematician, Professor Challis the astronomer, Sergeant Cox the lawyer, and Professor William James the psychologist, have signified their general adhesion.

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