Mental Radio.

133.8 S6lm reference collection book Kansas city public library kansas city, missouri KANSAS D CITY, QOD1 MO PUBLIC LIBRARY E MENTAL RADIO tt MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR 1883-1961 *-* (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 Springfield Illinois PUBLISHER U.S.A. CHARLES G XHOMAS PUBLISHER BANNERS-TONE HOUSE 301 -52 7 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A. is protected, by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher. This boolc 1930 and 1962, by CHARLES C XHOMAS - PUBLISHER Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-12057 With THOMAS BOOKS careful attention is given to all details of is the Publisher's desire to present books manufacturing and design. It that are satisfactory as to their physical qualities and artistic possibilities their particular use. will be true to those laws of quality that assure a good name and good and appropriate for THOMAS BOOKS Printed in the United States of America 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- have long been keenly interested in this field; and it is sibility. 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 discussing 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. But his 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 I possible to name several younger American psychologists keenly interested in the problem of telepathy. And who are with experiments in telepathy that Mr. Sinclair's 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 reported. For facility in obtaining seemingly supernormal phenom- book it is is 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 6300824 mm MEN