Excerpt from The Psychic Riddle
"I preferred to build my conviction upon a basis which would satisfy my intelligence and my reason, rather than impose a priori conditions which the experiment ought to satisfy in order to convince me. I am ignorant of most of these conditions, and I think that every one else is also. Consequently I consider it imprudent to establish beforehand the conditions under which the experiments are to be made, in order to merit being recorded... My manner of proceeding has been productive of many happy results; for the curious phenomena which I have been able to observe are capricious; they shun those who would force them, and offer themselves to those who wait for them patiently. This behavior, this spontaneity, is not the least astonishing feature in this line of observation... I am certain that we are in the presence of an unknown force... Some future Newton will discover a more complete formula than ours." - J. Maxwell, Doctor of Medicine and Deputy-General at the Court of Appeals, Bordeaux, France, in "Metapsychical Phenomena," pp. 18, 19. Preface by Prof. Charles Richet, and Introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge.
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