"But the age of machines and western culture with its materialistic background is smothering the old traditions, the good with the bad, l a few years hence there will be nothing left but a few carvings and inscriptions without meaning to those who see them," Mr. Laessoe continued.
"One of the objects of the Shanghai Society for Psychic Study," Mr. Laessoe pointed out, "is to examine and record this phase pf Chinese life, and to form a meeting ground for those who are interested in the subject. It is also the object of the Society to be affiliated with similar organizations in Europe and America."
Continuing, Mr. Laessoe said: "Vast strides have been made in recent years in the science which studies the supernormal and psychological manifestations of man as an individual as a group and as a nation. The time is past when these studies were the subject of persecution by religious institutions and the subject of scorn by physical scientists.
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