They had been doing all this before any society for psychical research had founded itself and the intention of new logic was to be scientific rather than psychological.

They had written books, scattered through the years, on mesmerism, hypnosis, abnormal mental conditions, the powers of suggestion, even unexplored dimensions and in modern days psychotherapeutics.
"What has amazed me is my own ignorance of the prolonged and serious nature of the investigation of an astonishing subject," he said in talking with the Duchess.

"To realise that analytical minds have been doing grave work of which one has known nothing is an actual shock to one's pride.

I suppose the tendency would have been to pooh-pooh it.

The cheap, modern popular form is often fantastic and crude, but there remains the fact that it all contains truths not to be explained by the rules we have always been familiar with." The Duchess had read the book he had brought her and held it in her hands.
"Perhaps the time has come, in which we are to learn the new ones," she said.
"Perhaps we are being forced to learn them--as a result of our pooh-poohing," was his answer.