ABSTRACT
The field of psychical research has pitfalls and morasses unknown in other fields of science. Three main functions of the university are as follows: first, the function of educating the young people within its gates; secondly, the function of research, of extending the bounds of knowledge; thirdly, a function which, as the life of the modern State assumes an accelerating complexity, becomes more and more important, namely, the function of exerting a controlling influence in the formation of public opinion on all vital matters. The negations of the scientific world are of little or no effect upon this chaos of conflicting beliefs and ardent desires. Science asserts that no such communication occurs or can occur. Yet, in all ages antecedent to our own, belief in such communication has been universal. The course of development of modern science has on the whole tended strongly to give predominance to the view which denies the transcendence of mind.
