Author: win r

"If every one of the experimenters were clever mesmerizers, the explanation, minus certain important details, might be acceptable. So much for the power of human will on inanimate matter, according to the learned minister of Louis Phillipe.   But how about the intelligence exhibited by the table? What explanation does he give as to answers [...]

"But can the scientists assert that they have in their possession the keys to such law? M. de Gasparin thinks he has. Let us see.   "I do not risk myself to explain anything; it is no business of mine. (?) To authenticate simple facts, and maintain a truth which science desires to smother, is [...]

"The contradictions, and we are sorry to say, the absurdities in which de Gasparin allows himself to be caught, are numerous. While bitterly criticizing the pretensions of the learned Faradaysiacs, he attributes things which he declares magical, to causes perfectly natural.   "If", he says, "we had to deal but with such phenomena (as witnessed [...]

"Let us analyze the above letter, and try to discover what the writer thinks, or rather what he does not think of this new force. One thing is certain, at least: Professor Thury, a distinguished physicist and naturalist, admits, and even scientifically proves that various manifestations take place.   Like Mr. Crookes, he does not [...]

"The opinion of Thury, as we have said, disagrees entirely with Gasparin's theories of will-power. He states it in so many plain words, in a letter, in answer to the invitation of the count to modify the last article of his memoire.   As the book of Thury is not at hand, we translate the [...]