I would like to have heard what Sir Oliver Lodge
said to his friends when he received an invitation from " Paramount " to go to Hollywood to appear in a film dealing with a Spiritualist subject. For many years Sir Oliver has been bombarded by requests of one kind or another from societies or individuals who, in his view, were unintentionally damaging Spiritualism in the eyes of the world—either by over-emotionalizing it or making a " stunt " of it. Sir Oliver first became interested in the subject after he had been invited to investigate certain psychical questions from the purely scientific point of view at Liverpool. In all his inquiries into the evidences of Spiritualism it has been a supreme effort with him to maintain them on a scientific basis, and to
reject the unscientific and the sensational. He believes . that the worst enemies of Spiritualism are to be found among the Spiritualists. As for the Hollywood film, I know nothing about it except that Sir Oliver has at once decided not to "feature " in it.
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