The “Bridge Which Is between Physical and Psychical Research”: William Fletcher Barrett, Sensitive Flames, and Spiritualism (2004)
The article discusses psychological phenomena of spiritualism. Several historians have demonstrated researcher John Tyndall's deep preoccupation with the spiritual and transcendental aspects of nature and his recognition that while the laws of matter and energy were the most reliable descriptions of the physical world, they were insufficient to answer such profound questions as the origin of life, force, and matter. Researcher William Fletcher Barton has rightly characterized Tyndall as a pantheist who adopted materialism as a maxim of scientific research, but not as a general philosophy.
...MoreDescription On Fletcher's views and how they contrast with John Tyndall, for whom he worked as a laboratory assistant in the 1860s.
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