Show PSYCHICAL RESEARCH fir balfour deelaree Deel areg the time ha come bior science to spiritualism A regular london correspondent says that mr balfour the leader of the opposition has recently distinguished himself not only by the delivery of a series of strong political speeches but by openly advocating a thorough scientific investigation vesti gation of psychic or spiritualistic phenomena aa president of the society of psychical research he said in an address that be thought the time biad come when the leaders of scientific thought should recognize that there were well attested facts which do not naturally fall into the framework of the sciences or of organized experiences the proposed investigation was different from a scientific cross examination of nature for they would have to deal with abnormal or incomplete faculties with exceptional conditions in exceptional individuals ho saw no inherent impossibility in such halt formed senses being sporadically developed in the human race they seemed to across hu man facts which could not be made by any manipulation to fit into the interstices of the accepted view of the psychical world it that were so they were engaged in a work of prodigious difficulty they had a refractory class of problems to deal with but it seemed to him that at least they would be able to prove the existence of an outside world there was a region not open indeed to experimental observation in the same way that the more familiar regions of the material world were open but from which como information could bo gleaned and if they could not as the result of their exertions discover what laws these strange phenomena obeyed it would at all events be something to have shown as a matter of ascertained fact that there were things in heaverd hea and on earth which were beyond the philosophy of eyan tho most scientific |