Part 23

Phrenology, 18, 171; interest in, 23; logic underlying, 23.

Physiognomy, 18.

Podmore, Frank, 10, 162, 164, 167.

Prepossession, 44, 120, 126, 127, 130, 131, 151, 162-166, 296, 297-300; a noteworthy illustration of, 301-304.

Pseudo-science, 5, 20, 21, 24; temper of, 22; practical aspect of, 18, 21, 25; varieties of, 35.

Psychical Research, the programme of, 50; the trend of, 51, 62, 75-77; interests contributing to, 56-58, 63, 65, 66; the problems of, 67; relation to Psychology, see Psychology.

Psychology, scope of, 51; relation to Psychical Research, 52-56, 58-61, 64, 65, 76; difficulties in teaching, 298.

Puységur, Marquis A. M. J. Chastenet de, 194; his discovery of somnambulism, 194, 195; his views and status, 196, 197.

Quackery, 25.

Reichenbach, Baron, 225.

Rydberg, ----, 266, 267.

Salpêtrière, 202, 228, 231.

Scherer, ----, 366.

Science, the spirit of, 48; the nature of, 49; and error of, 69.

Sensation, and perception, 106, 107.

Seybert Commission, 140, 141, 158.

Sidgwick, Mrs., 141, 157.

Sight; see Vision.

Signatures, doctrine of, 264.

Sinnett, A. P., 10, 11.

Slade, Henry, 139, 140, 141.

Somnambulism, artificial, 197, 198.

Spiritualism, 12, 27, 44, 125; manifestations of, 13, 128, 131; origin of, 14, 15, 137, 166, 167; doctrines of, 15, 161, 165; present status of, 16, 18, 169; fraud disclosed in, 140, 141, 142-145, 146, 157, 159.

Spiritualists, temper of, 16, 17.

Statistics, in relation to mental problems, 84-86.

Subconscious, 70, 79, 92, 108, 128, 129, 308.

Suggestion, 230; unconscious, 68, 174, 186, 199, 211, 233.

Sully, James, 111, 345.