PEP | Article - Pratt, J. G. Rhine, J. B. Smith, B. W. Stuart, C. E., and Greenwood, J. A. Extra-Sensory Perception after Sixty Years. [New York: Henry Holt and Company. $2.75.]

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Abstract

Subtitled “A Critical Appraisal of the Research in Extra-sensory Perception”, Dr. Rhine, the principal protagonist of the general idea, has made up a team of workers at the Duke University to try to show that such phenomena are valid and reliable. The argument is given in four parts: (1) The Question Itself, (2) Criticism and Evidence, (3) The Nature of Extra-sensory Perception, and (4) The Present Situation.

Protagoras, centuries ago, wrote that “Man is the measure of all things. Of the things that are and of those that are not”. So old is the problem, or older, as some of the citations given in the too brief historical summary. In more modern times the psychical society researchers mulled and mussed around a bit with the phenomena involved.

Dr. Rhine and associates here take up the matter anew, i.e. collect some of their so-called observations, of which much newspaper trash has