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196: “crisis”: Sidgwick to H. G. Dakyns, July 29, 1894; in Sidgwick and Sidgwick, Henry Sidgwick.
197: “greatest donkey of the age”: WJ to Myers on Lombroso, Sept. 9, 1894, Houghton.
198: “You ask what I think”: WJ to Lodge regarding caution in publishing, Oct. 4, 1894, Houghton.
199: She published his analysis: R. Hodgson, Journal of the Society of Psychical Research 7 (1895): 55-79.
201: they would test Eusapia on their terrain: Eusapia’s sittings in Cambridge and response described in Sidgwick, Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, 138—40; Inglis, Natural and Supernatural, 387-88; and Podmore, Mediums of the Nineteenth Century, 198-203.
201: “Sidgwick has to flirt with her”: Myers to WJ, Aug. 8, 1895, Houghton.
203: “Well, our countries”: WJ to Myers, Jan. 1, 1895, Houghton.
204: “It has not been the practice”: Sidgwick in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 7 (1895); “I fear the Eusapia business”: WJ to Sidgwick, Nov. 8, 1895, Houghton.
204: “The Presidency of the Society”: William James, “Address by the President,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 12 (1896): 2-10.
205: “too hasty assumption”: Haynes, Society for Psychical Research, 180.
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209: “Do not allude to all this”: Myers to WJ, Dec. 21, 1900, Houghton.
210: “I do not say that facts”: To Lodge, Oct. 10, 1893; cited in Gauld, Founders of Psychical Research.
211: “Studies in Hysteria”: Cerullo, “Secularization of the Soul,” 133-34, 221.
211: compared the range of human consciousness to the light spectrum: Flournoy, Spiritism and Psychology; Moore, In Search of White Crows, 149-52.
212: “a narrowish intellect”: WJ to Charles William Eliot, Feb. 21, 1899, Houghton.
213: letter to the Psychological Review: J. Cattell, “Psychical Research,” Psychological Review 3 (1896): 582-83.
213: “snarling logicaliry”: “The Will to Believe,” address to the Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown Universities, New World, 1896; reprinted in Stephen Rowe, The Vision of James (London: Vega, 2001).
214: “About the narrowest minded”: Barrett to Lodge, Oct. 14, 1893; quoted in Oppenheim, Other World, in section on dowsing, 362-64. The Divining-rod entry, Shepard, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 250-52, includes a summary of Barrett’s report.
218: second report on Leonora Piper: Richard Hodgson, “A Further Record of Observations of Certain Phenomena of Trance: Additional Report on Mrs. Piper,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 13 (1898): 284-583.
220: “If Professor Sidgwick”: For Hodgson’s theories of communication from Barrett, see Barrett, Threshold of the Unseen, 243-49; for further discussion, see Frederic Myers, “On Some Fresh Facts Indicating Man’s Survival of Death,” National Review, Apr. 1898, 230-42.
221: “fired off an essay”: James McKeen Cattell, “Mrs. Piper, the Medium,” Science, Apr. 15, 1898. Science, May 6, 1898, published James’s “Letter on Mrs. Piper, the Medium,” along with Cattell’s response; James’s review of Hodgson’s report was published in Psychological Review, July 1898, 420-24.
223: “art of unveiling fraud”: Hodgson’s report is discussed in the Saturday Review, July 16, 1898, 81.
224: “a cosmic record of sorts”: James’s discussion of the “cosmic consciousness” is best explained in one of his last works, “Confidences of a Psychical Researcher,” published in American Magazine 69 (Oct. 1909): 580-89.
225: “eleven reported poltergeist cases”: Podmore’s poltergeist investigations and his belief that they helped explain Palladino are also discussed in “On Poltergeists,” a chapter in his Mediums of the Nineteenth Century.
226: Theodore Flournoy: An excellent review of the relationship between William James and Theodore Flournoy can be found in the introduction to The Letters of William James and Theodore Flournoy, ed. Robert C. Le Clair (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966).
226: “every finger of”: Flournoy to WJ, Dec. 11, 1898, Houghton.
227: “intentional and systematic fraud”: