GHOST-HUNTING
Sir,-There would be no need to notice "Argosy’s’’ second letter had it not illustrated so beautifully the truth that the dogmatism of the believer is often equalled by the dogmatism of the unbeliever. There was Harry Price devoting his life to the study of.the supernormal. His body of work in this field has perhaps never been equalled for range and scientific thoroughness. He approached every problem. in. the proper scientific spirit — scepticism combined with a_ willingness to accept new truths. He called to his aid every means of check that science could supply. He found natural explanation
for many phenomena, and a good deal of down-right fraud, but there were some things for which he could not account. He put the record of his investigations into books. "Argosy" has no intention of reading them. Like Mr. Podsnap, he waves them aside. "Not English!" "Not Rationalist!" "Argosy" is, of course, of the same type as the dupes of fraudulent medium. Like them, he believes what he wants to believe: His mind, like theirs, is closed.
A.
M.
(Wellington)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 5
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