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The thought reader craze : Victorian science at the enchanted boundary

Barry H. Wiley (Author)
"Valuable"--Psypioneer Journal. Beginning in 1870, the hunger for scientific discovery in Great Britain drove prominent scientists, philosophers and others to promote the legitimacy of telepathy. This volume explores this unusual cultural phenomenon, showing how it was aided through the years by public scientific pronouncements, astonishing performances by the thought readers, and the rapidly changing industrial society

eBook, English, 2012
McFarland & Co., Publishers, Jefferson, N.C., 2012