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Revised Second Printing MENTAL RADIO By UPTON SINCLAIR Introduction
by WILLIAM McDOUGALL Preface by ALBERT EINSTEIN With a Report by
WALTER FRANKLIN PRINCE CHARLES C THOMAS PUBLISHER Springfield
Illinois U. S. A. tt - MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR 1883-1961 INTRODUCTION J
J r. Upton Sinclair needs no introduction to the public as a
fearless, honest, and critical student o public affairs. But in the
present book he has with characteristic courage entered a new
field, one in which reputations are more easily lost than made, the
field of Psychic Research. When he does me the honor to ask me to
write a few words of introduction to this book, a refusal would
imply on my part a lack either of courage or of due sense of
scientific respon sibility. I have long been keenly interested in
this field and it is not necessary to hold that the researches of
the past fifty years have brought any solidly established
conclusions in order to feel sure that further research is very
much worth while. Even if the results of such research should in
the end prove wholly negative that would be a result of no small
importance for from many points of view it is urgently to be wished
that we may know where we stand in this question of the reality of
alleged supernormal phenomena. In dis cussing this question
recently with a small group of scientific men, one of them who is
perhaps the most prominent and influential of American
psychologists seemed to feel that the whole problem was settled in
the negative when he asserted that at the present time no American
psychologist of standing took any interest in this field. I do not
know whether he meant to deny my Americanism or my standing,
neither of which I can establish. Buthis remark if it were true,
would not in any degree support his conclusion it would rather be a
grave reproach to American psychologists. Happily it is possible to
name several younger American psychologists who are keenly
interested in the problem of telepathy. And it is with experiments
in telepathy that Mr. Sinclairs book is chiefly concerned. In this
part, as in other parts, of the field of Psychic Research, progress
must largely depend upon such work by intelligent educated laymen
or amateurs as is here re ported. For facility in obtaining
seemingly supernormal phenom ena seems to be of rare and sporadic
occurrence and it is the duty of men of science to give whatever
encouragement and sympathetic . wisfts cut cio. PUBLIC mm 6300824
Vl MENTAL RADIO support may be possible to all amateurs who find
themselves in a position to observe and carefully and honestly to
study such phenomena. Mrs. Sinclair would seem to be one of the
rare persons who have telepathic power in a marked degree and
perhaps other super normal powers. The experiments in telepathy, as
reported in the pages of this book, were so remarkably successful
as to rank among the very best hitherto reported. The degree of
success and the conditions of experiment were such that we can
reject them as conclusive evidence of some mode of communication
not at present explicable in accepted scientific terms only by
assuming that Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair either are grossly stupid,
incompetent and care less persons or have deliberately entered upon
a conspiracy to deceive the public in a most heartless and
reprehensible fashion. I have unfortunately no intimate personal
knowledge of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair but I am acquainted with someof
Mr. Sinclairs earlier publications and that acquaintance suffices
to convince me, as it should convince any impartial reader, that he
is an able and sincere man with a strong sense of right and wrong
and of indi vidual responsibility. His record and his writings
should secure a wide and respectful hearing for what he has to tell
us in the follow ing pages. Mrs...
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