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...doctors demanded. The liquor resolution contained a complaint on the quality of the liquor now obtained on prescription. In a scientific paper, Dr. Roger I. Lee of Boston said that, although no value was found in the use of alcohol in acute infections or as a stimulant, its psychic effect in making the sick "feel good" and "causing the convalescent to eat" justified its use in small quantities...
...incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled, refines her sin, lays the ghost by seducing her father. All are consumed?sin, protagonists, accessories?when the idiot crone Jinny, childishly...
...McDougall closed by repeating his invitation to members of the University to join the new Society. No obligation will be incurred, and joining the Society will mean keeping informed as to the new developments in the ever fascinating field of psychic research...
...regard this undertaking," he declared, "as one of exceeding importance in the field of science. It is a genuine attempt to investigate the psychic field. It will be carried out with a strictly scientific attitude. It will possess every possible advantage to assist research. And if it fails, I predict that an end will be made of scientific investigation for many years to come...
Boston, furthermore, is a singularly auspicious spot in which to launch a psychic society, for it has always been rich in psychic material. It is sufficient to mention the names of Mrs. Piper, the most famous medium who ever lived, Mrs. Soule, Mr. Foss, and "Margery...