Science: Ghosts, No Ghosts

No one who believes in spiritualism ever changes his opinion by reading arguments against it. Few who do not believe are won over by anything they read.

—Henry Clay McComas in Ghosts I Have Talked With.

Though firm believers in spiritualism and implacable non-believers may not be swayed by anything they read, for persons willing to hear from both camps two new books were at hand last week containing excellent statements pro & con. One author is a Baltimore-born Johns Hopkins psychologist who does his ghost-hunting with affability and scientific guile. The other is...

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