ABSTRACT
Religion must stand or fall by the authenticity of religious experience; but if, like a crab, it is to grow a hard shell adequate at least for a time, it must look to a philosophy which is broadly based and is ready to take into account all the evidence there is. This appears to be the main conclusion which emerges from the survey of the various possible responses. The negative response means that we must reject human freedom and deny objective standards in morality, it is not one to be lightly approved. The subject of psychical research suffers from its relation to spiritualism and to what is known as the occult that hideous breeding-ground of credulity and fraud but we should not allow this to prejudice us against it. Professor Price proceeds to argue that in these occurrences the brain apparently plays no part, and consequently that psychical research has already in principle demolished the materialistic theory of human personality.
