The Survival of Man a Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty: In Unrecognized Human Faculty (Classic Reprint)

This fact must be taken into account in estimating the value of evidence for survival. On the one hand it may make people unduly credulous and ready to accept any medium of evidence that trends in the direction of their desires and lonngs; on the other hand it may make people extra-critical and cautious lest in a matter of such importance they shall be deceived. The latter is the more wholesome attitude, and on the whole I believe is the commoner of the two. For although evidence may appear conclusive when first received, subsequent contemplation and the suggestion of other methods of explanation often throw doubt upon the interpretation that first suggested ifsclf, and it is perceived that a deceptive appearance of proof may be attained without any intention to deceive, without any fraud on the part of anybody, but solely because alternative modes of interpretation seem possible; and it is realised that much study and experience are necessary before discrimination is certain, and before anything like a secure basis of definite knowledge can be reached.
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