The object of Lieutenant Hill and myself was to make it appear possible and to avoid being found out
- Date of account
- Published 1920
- Source
- The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom
- Reference
- The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom · selected passage 3
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
The object of Lieutenant Hill and myself was to make it appear possible and to avoid being found out
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe object of Lieutenant Hill and myself was to make it _appear_ possible and to avoid being found out. In doing so we had many opportunities of seeing the deplorable effects of belief in spiritualism. When in the atmosphere of the séance, men whose judgment one respects and whose mental powers one admires lose hold of the criteria of sane conclusions and construct for themselves a fantastic world on their new hypothesis. The messages we received from “the world beyond” and from “other minds in this sphere” were in every case, and from beginning to end, of our own invention. Yet the effect both on our friends and on the Turks was to lead them, as earnest investigators, to the same conclusions as Sir Oliver Lodge has reached, and the arrival of his book _Raymond_ in the camp in 1918 only served to confirm them in their views. We do not know if such a thing as a “genuine” medium exists.
Historical context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyThis source supplies historical scientific, skeptical or conventional context. Its terminology and conclusions may not reflect current scholarship.
Modern context
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