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«(…) Rhine is not just an investigator, but also a thinker... enable to treat the results of his experiences not only in a mathematical and logical way...
According his opponents... a scientist shall be cold, rational and... positive (do not pass over... the experience)...
That is the typical mentality of the mechanism: the scientist shown as a kind of robot... that gives up of his human nature in order to works as a... photo camera. (...)
(...) The scientific search... cannot confines itself to the surroundings of the PERCEPTIONS. (...) And the late consequences... are moral.
Rhine emphasizes this contradictory feature of nowadays: while in Theology Institutes they prepare young people according the old principles of faith, in Medicine Institutes, some distance away, they teach them on the principles of the disbelief. And both... will work in the social medium..., each one with his PARTICULAR truth, opposed to the truth of the other. (...)
The incapacity of science to prove that the human is just body finds parallel only in the incapacity of religion to prove that the human is spirit. (...) Accused to be spiritualist, considering this a harmful prejudice against the scientific search, Rhine answered them with... Cartesian evidence. (...)»
— «Parapsychology, today and tomorrow» (1974), Part 2nd, chapter xii, by J. Herculano Pires (1924 — 1979), a Brazilian thinker, writer, professionally teacher in University, philosophically spiritualist, and finally a prominent member of Brazilian Spiritism based on French Allan Kardec Spiritism.