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Ernesto
Bozzano
1862-1943
THE DEAN of Italian psychical researches. His attention was first directed
to psychical phenomena in 1891 by Prof. Theodore Ribot who forwarded him
to the first number of Annales des Sciences Psychique. In the company of
Enrico Morselli and Porro he had many sittings with Eusapia Paladino and
ended by accepting the survival hypothesis and by becoming a most prolific
writer on psychic subjects. He wrote over two dozen books and contributed,
for a period of thirty years, hundreds of articles to the Luce e Ombra
and the Revne Spirite. His books disclose great erudition and a highly
logical, scientific mind. His psychic library at Savona is believed to be
unique.
He summed up his position in the following words:
"Whoever, instead of
losing himself in idle discussions, undertakes systematic and deep
researches in metapsychical phenomena, and who perseveres in them for long
years, accumulating immense material in happenings and applying to these
the methods of scientific inquiry, must, without fail, end by convincing
himself that metapsychical phenomena constitute an admirable assemblage of
proofs, all converging as to a centre toward the rigorously scientific
demonstration of the existence and of the survival of the Spirit. This is
my firm conviction, and I do not doubt that time will show that I am
right."
Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).
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