George John Romanes FRS (1848 Kingston, Ontario Canada – 1894) was a Canadian-born English evolutionary biologist and physiologist
who laid
the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a
similarity of cognitive
processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.
"This experience conversion has been repeated and testified to by countless millions of civilized men and women in all nations and of all degrees of culture. It signifies not whether the conversion be sudden or gradual, though as a psychological phenomenon it is more remarkable when sudden, and there is no symptom of mental aberration otherwise. But even as a gradual growth in mature age its evidential value is no less. . . . That it may all be due to so-called natural causes is no evidence against its so-called supernatural source unless we beg the whole question of the Divine in Nature."George John Romanes.
The new life; the secret of happiness and power [1917] by Samuel McComb
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