The Soul of Things [rare books]

William Denton was born in Darlington, Yorkshire, in 1823 and, following his emigration to America at the age of 25, became greatly excited by Buchanan's work on psychometry and its implications for the possible application in the field of geological history.

Psychometry, the power to 'see' the history of an object when it is placed in contact with us, was believed by Denton to be possessed by us all. His psychometric experiments with geological and archaeological specimens produced amazing results which make compelling and enthralling reading.

The first volume of William Denton's The Soul of Things was published in Boston, where Denton was a lecturer in geology, in 1863. It remains the best available book on psychometry, a classic in the literature of psychical research that raises questions about the of the human mind that have yet to be answered.