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...Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin replied, not sparing Sir Arthur in his absence. He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness." He was at pains, however, to appreciate the large significance of spiritualism's implications, whether they be baffling truth or "stupendous" error...
...before an ectoplasmic apparition appeared on one of them. The spirits present before that time [i. e. when ectoplasm was first photographed] evidently did not take." He also cited the fact that Britishers have taken "ectoplasm pictures" without special lenses and shutters. But Dr. Prince refuted for spiritualists the Jastrow charge of "wishful thinking," pointing out that a will to disbelieve is no more scientific than a will to believe...
...Eastern Question and its Solution: by Morris Jastrow, Jr. J. B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia...
...Subconscious," by J. Jastrow...
...SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "Ancient Divination -- Babylonian, Etruscan, and Greek." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania. Semitic Museum, Room...