ABSTRACT
Myers and Co. are so long – supplies a noble illustration of the practical advantages of spookical research. It is much to be hoped that the Society will follow up its iconoclastic exploit by sending Mr. Hodgson to investigate the claim of the so-called fortune-tellers who frequent racecourses and gipsy encampments to be the prophets of an incipient world-religion. Mr. Myers may have flattered himself that he was going to be allowed a walkover in the contest for spookical superiority. Blavatsky uses the word spook in some highly technical sense of her own, but the practical distinction between a British spook cropping up at that very moment and an astral presence bringing a message about nothing in particular is really too fine for the general public.
