Dr. Chatley ov Telepathy The case against telepathy was presented by Dr. H. Chatley on Monday, in an_address to members of the Quest Society.
After discussing the relation telepathy to certain classified spiritual phenomena, Dr. Chatley said that, if telepathy existed at all, it was an exceedingly rare occurrence. Between thousands of people who had mutual bonds of affection or religious belief there was no telepathy. Whatever the evidence might be for its actual existence, one could not but help being struck with the extraordinary rarity of telepathy, even under conditions described by authorities on the subject as being favourable.
There was always an element of weakness in reports of telepathetis phenomena, which made it very difficult to make thorough investigations. The persons who were said to have experienced such phenomena so often were inaccurate observers. am not aware of any case which has been authenticated in the full legal sense of the word," Dr. Chatley declared. "Unless this can be done the whole thing is impossible."
On the experimental side there was little evidence in support of the theory. At an American University about two years ago no fewer than 10,000 experiments were made by students and professional spiritualists. The results were a
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