about thirty professional 0 fact that the majority of them seem to thrive and prosper, affords sufficient proof that well-to-do Britons are not all sceptics. Among those who have, at one time or snather, patronized these knights of the magic wand are Lord Salisbury, Lord Londonderry, Lord Minto, Lord Burton and Mr. A. J. Balfour, ex-Premier, and none of these is usually regarded s soperstitios undoly credalour. Mr. E. Vaugl opine declared some years ago that there had come under bie personal observation seventy or eighty cases in which diviners were employed, and that their efforts were uniformly and wonder-folly successful. Indeed, not " single failure fell to be recorded.
An interesting investigation, on scientific linea, into the claims and protensions of water diviners was carried out by Professor Wertheimer, of Bristol Technical College. The experiments, divided into six classes, numbered twenty-eight, and were participated in by three professional and three amateur dowsers. In one set of experiments, the efforts of the specialists were not attended with mach success and it was demonstrated that men of equal experience and standing formed t the sce ly area ich they were told that water did exist, though they were not told exactly where it was to be found." The correct indications did not exceed two out of every five; and an equally high percentage was obtained by a number of Bristol students who, on their own admission, proceeded entirely on guenswork, In another series of trials, the divioers wore " successful to an extent that could not be accounted for by mere chance."
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