- 194 - Prof. Pawlowski’s observation that the odour emitted by the higher spirits was pleasant and sweet, while he perceived an offensive smell like that of a wet dog during the materialization of the great ape, fully confirms what is said earlier in this book regarding the smell of od. Prof. Pawlowski’s account concludes with the following remarks: It is impossible for anyone to deny or to reject these phenomena, or to explain them by ascribing them to sleight-of-hand performances. I fully acknowledge that it is difficult for most people to believe them, that it is hard to conceive of the possibility that, in the space of a few minutes, living human beings appear, whose bones can be felt through their flesh, whose heartbeats can be heard and felt.... I admit that all these things are beyond our comprehension. We have been spoiled by the marvels of modern science. We can no longer believe in natural things, presented to us in all their beauty; we can no longer believe in the secret of universal life, in the Divine secret that is so carefully guarded from us. • To admit the possibility of these things would revolutionize our entire perspective of life and death as well as that of philosophy and the sciences.”12 Scientific authorities will acknowledge the great mass of experimental material already available and will lend their hand to the establishment of the truth, regardless of those moralists who see in the acknowledgement of psychic phenomena a menace to morality and religion. Intellectual cowardice is more or less excusable in moralists, whose narrow outlook concerns itself more with short-lived things, which are fleeting for the people at large. No scholar, no seeker after the truth can afford to take such a view. • In the end, truth will conquer and rule all things; one need, however, neither fear nor belittle it.” 12 The translation of this passage has been corrected to accord with the original Pawlowski article in the Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie. Greber’s German text contains a citation error here.
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