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be laughed out of court if they seem to represent any remarkable
coincidences. At any rate, his account consists with and confirms
mine and Prof. Mosley's.
I have not yet received Miss Puffer's reply to my letter and if I
do I shall send it on at once.
* * *
Very truly,
J. H. HYSLOP.
We are now ready for the first-hand account of the
particular
"PSYCHOMETRIC READING" WITH PROF. MOSLEY
AS SUBJECT.
MERCER UNIVERSITY.
PHILOSOPHY AND PoLITICAL SciENCE,
J. R. MosLEY.
MACON, GA., Oct. 1st, 1898.
About Sept, 1st, 1898, Prof. J. H. Hyslop, of Columbia CoJJege,
Miss Ethel Puffer, Professor of Psychology in the Harvard Annex,
and Dr. Jean du Buy, of New York, and myself visited a Psychometrist
at Greenacre, Me.
The Psychometrist knew nothing of my past history, and in fact
it was the first time that I had seen her, or that she had seen me.
I seated myself before her and assumed a rather happy and vacant
state of mind, with a purpose of not allowing myself to retrace the
typical experiences of my past life. The Psychometrist took my
fore-arm in her hand, and putting herself in a passive and semihypnotic
state, she described my general traits of character and
types of mental life in a most wonderful manner-as weJJ, if not
better, than friends who have known me for years could have done.
Among the specific facts she mentioned were the following:
1.-That I was either a public lecturer or a college or University
instructor, and possibly both.
2.-That in lecturing I had a great fondness for the use of the
blackboard, using drawings on the board to clear up involved
problems. She also intimated that my preference in inteJJectual work
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