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Eight weeks ago, during U.S. Army maneuvers on the Rhine, Private Raymond L. Cote, 21, of Saco, Me., was ordered, in the classic instruction for sentries, to guard two small open boats. Four days later, when the maneuvers ended, the rest of the troops marched back to barracks. But not Private "Frenchy" Cote. In the 60,000-man V Corps, Frenchy had been forgotten...
...Rhine had more PK, he might be able to compel others to think as he does. Or if he had more precognition, he might not be in the fix that he says...
...Just as Rhine's laboratory is furnished with gadgets for testing subjects with trick playing cards, dice cages and colored marbles in a golden ball, so his world of the mind is full of futuristic furnishings. There is the overall term ESP (for extrasensory perception) for what used to be called clairvoyance and telepathy. This. says - Rhine, might be the explanation for the case of the California cat. Then there is PK (psychokinesis), for the alleged power to influence events by nonphysical means-e.g., a crapshooter "willing" the fall of the dice. And there is precognition, or ability...
...these depend, according to Rhine, upon the "psi" factor, which is noticeable in about one person in five. For some who do not show it, he invokes a "psi-missing" factor to explain why their clairvoyance is below par. For the brute creation, Rhine now postulates "anpsi" (animal psi), which may or may not be the same as human...
...Rhine reproaches scientists in general and psychologists in particular for their refusal, by & large, to accept the evidence of their extrasenses. He compares them with those who refused to look through Galileo's telescope. He assails the materialist bias of the times for creating a climate hostile to his theories, though he admits that he cannot yet "prove" them by conventional standards...