...collectors, who were instructed to put to ' all sorts of people ' the ' Census ' question,' viz. : — ' Have you ever, when believing yourself ' to be completely...discover, was not due to any external physical ' cause ? ' Of these collectors, 223 were women and 187 men, and with about a quarter of them members of the...

...exactly expresses the meaning), to a great many people asking whether the questioned had ever when completely -awake had "a vivid impression of seeing...inanimate object or of hearing a voice, which impression was not due to any external physical cause." To this inquiry they received some twentyfour thousand...

...which runs as follows : " /A'.", you ever, when completely awake, had a vivid impression of teeing or being touched by a living being or inanimate object, or of hearing a voice ; which imprettion, to far at you could d'ucover, wax not due to any external physical cause f " The Congress...

...that the following question could possibly be misunderstood:— Have you ever, when in good health and completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a human being, or of hearing a voice or sound which suggested a human presence, when no one was there...

...mere morbid hallucinatipns are we have asked the question : " Have you ever, when in good health, and completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing, or being touched by, a human being, or of hearing a voice or sound which suggested a human presence, when no one was there...

...answers to the question which heads the census sheets, and which runs as follows : " Have you ever, when completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing...discover, was not due to any external physical cause?" The " Congress " hopes that at its next meeting, in England in 1892, as many as fifty thousand answers...

...James, oi Harvard University. It is carried on by papers, at the head of which stands the question : " Have you ever, when believing yourself to be completely...was not due to any external physical cause ? " The last sentence is intended to exclude, as far as possible, a class of experiences which are liable to...

...aid a Paper A., affording space for twenty-five answers, Yes or No, to the following question :—" Have you ever, when believing yourself to be completely...discover, was not due to any external physical cause ?" This question has been carefully framed so as to exclude, as far as possible, both dreams and mere...

...aid, a Paper A., affording space for twenty-five answers, yes or no, to the following question : " Have you ever, when believing yourself to be completely...discover, was not due to any external physical cause ? " This question has been carefully framed so as to exclude, as far as possible, both dreamsand mere...

...or in telepathy, or in any other explanation of the phenomena inquired into. It runs as follows : " Have you ever, when believing yourself to be completely...impression, so far as you could discover, was not due to an external physical cause ? " I hope it will be seen how impartially the question has been framed....