ABSTRACT
The professional philosopher tends to use mental processes of a type which has proved rather a failure in scientific thought. The views of the Ionian philosophers belong to the same order of thought as those of the mythologists, and in the systems of such thinkers as Plato and Pythagoras it is impossible to separate theological and physical hypotheses. Clearly sexual activity outside the breeding season would be treated as we treat incest or homosexuality. One need not attempt to picture in any great detail the fate of an Australian who reached England in autumn and behaved as Australians did in spring. The members of the Society for Visionary Research have recorded many series of partial correspondences between visions of different individuals, and believe that they are on the track of some law governing them unfortunately; they are handicapped by two causes besides scepticism.
