What does "the messages are only silly and trivial to be entirely unjustified by his

[jacob123]

What does "the messages are only silly and trivial to be entirely unjustified by his experience" mean?

It is interesting to note that du Prel proclaims the assertion that the messages are only silly and trivial to be entirely unjustified by his experience, while at the same time he asserts that he has found no traces of superhuman intelligence, but of course, before pronouncing upon such a point, one has to determine how a superhuman intelligence could be distinguished and how far it would be intelligible to our brains.

"The History of Spiritualism," by Arthur Conan Doyle

[GoesStation]

The sentence that text is in doesn't make sense. It looks like an editing error to me.

[jacob123]

The sentence that text is in doesn't make sense. It looks like an editing error to me.

I checked it. It is correct. There is no error in it. I compared it with many editions of that book.

[GoesStation]

i checked it. it is correct. there is no error in it.

What did you compare it with? How do you know its source doesn't have an error?

Always capitalize the word "I" and the first letter of each sentence.

[emsr2d2]

Please correct the information in your member profile. You appear to have chosen three random responses.

[PeterCW]

It looks as if Conan Doyle just lost track of what he was trying to say in such a ponderous sentence.

If you substitute "is" for "to be" then the whole thing starts to make some sort of sense.

[jutfrank]

It makes good sense to me: Someone asserted that the messages are silly and trivial. Du Prel disagrees with this, based on his experience.

I can understand why other members are having difficulty. The sentence uses the pattern: proclaim something to be something

Du Prel proclaims the assertion that the messages are only silly and trivial to be entirely unjustified by his experience

[Rover_KE]

Jacob, I see you are also posting threads about this book on WordReference Forums.

Please do not post the same question on both forums at the same time.

[jacob123]

It makes good sense to me: Someone asserted that the messages are silly and trivial. Du Prel disagrees with this, based on his experience.

I can understand why other members are having difficulty. The sentence uses the pattern: proclaim something to be something

Du Prel proclaims the assertion that the messages are only silly and trivial to be entirely unjustified by his experience

Thank you so much.

[jacob123]

Jacob, I see you are also posting threads about this book on WordReference Forums.

Please do not post the same question on both forums at the same time.

Ok. Thanks. but what can i do when they don not answer me?