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...impartial record. Dr. Murchison first made it clear that he and his Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement as an effort "to support Faith by actual, provable fact." He, of course, was concerned chiefly with the movement. For his own claim upon public consideration the creator of "Sherlock Holmes" mentioned...
...England, radio engineers "listened" for signals from Mars with apparatus tuned for waves from 30 metres to 40,000 in length. Engineer Guglielmo Marconi was quoted as having believed interstellar communication "not impossible." A spiritist kept newspaper readers diverted with "messages" from a Martian woman, one "Gomaruru...
...Oliver Lodge, famed spiritist, sound scientist, was besieged but made no public comment on the alleged news from 'Gomaruru" that Martians were seven feet tall, with heavy black hair, slanted eyes, big ears; appetites for tea and tobacco; electric airplanes, gigantic waterpower developments (the "canals...