Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Editors (Semantic MediaWiki), Suppressors, Administrators, trusted
11,147
edits
m
no edit summary
No edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
And now what does all this pea-rattling amount to? We are deceivers or deceived; we are ignorant, and foolish to believe what we think we see, but what Dr. Carpenter knows we don’t. Above all, we are inaccurate as to our facts. | And now what does all this pea-rattling amount to? We are deceivers or deceived; we are ignorant, and foolish to believe what we think we see, but what Dr. Carpenter knows we don’t. Above all, we are inaccurate as to our facts. | ||
''Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?''<ref> | ''Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?''<ref>(French) Who can bear to hear the Gracchi speak against sedition; or more loosely: "People often condemn behaviors in which they themselves engage".</ref> — Who is this that talks of accuracy? On a certain memorable occasion a F.R.S. delivered a lecture, in which he attacked another F.R.S. in his absence, and attempted to demonstrate the falsity of an experiment made by him to prove the existence of a force called Psychic. The history of that controversy may be read in the ''Researches into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism''. by W. Crookes, F.R.S. The inaccurate exposer who was so completely exposed was Dr. W. B. Carpenter. | ||
At the late meeting of the British Association, this same accurate man of science quoted from memory an account of the singular phenomena which occurred under such perfect conditions in the house of Dr. Speer. The Doctor had detailed the formation of the cross in a closed room, as a good case of motion without contact. In his reproduction of the record, given to him with the strictest scientific accuracy, as I can testify, he so transformed it that every point was altered, every statement falsified, and then calmly proceeded to adduce it as a proof of Dr. Speer’s incapacity of observation. Dr. Speer exposed the misstatements, but they have no been withdrawn and apologised for. Again, the delinquent is Dr. W. B. Carpenter. | At the late meeting of the British Association, this same accurate man of science quoted from memory an account of the singular phenomena which occurred under such perfect conditions in the house of Dr. Speer. The Doctor had detailed the formation of the cross in a closed room, as a good case of motion without contact. In his reproduction of the record, given to him with the strictest scientific accuracy, as I can testify, he so transformed it that every point was altered, every statement falsified, and then calmly proceeded to adduce it as a proof of Dr. Speer’s incapacity of observation. Dr. Speer exposed the misstatements, but they have no been withdrawn and apologised for. Again, the delinquent is Dr. W. B. Carpenter. | ||