This idea , or something like it , evidently appealed to many intellectuals of the day , including Tennyson -LRB- who was Britain 's poet laureate at the time -RRB- , Leslie Stephen -LRB- the father of Virginia Woolf -RRB- , John Ruskin , Lewis Carroll and Mark Twain , who were all members of the Society for Psychical Research .
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