1862 - 1943
Ernesto Bozzano
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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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