Author: win r

"Thus, they were compelled to acknowledge:  1st. That the phenomena which they, at least, had witnessed, were genuine, and impossible to simulate; thus showing that manifestations produced by some unknown force, could and did happen.   2nd. That, whether the phenomena were produced by disembodied spirits or other analogous entities, they could not tell; but [...]

"These representatives of modern science in both hemispheres seem never to have exhibited more scorn, or to have felt more bitterly toward the unsolvable mystery, than since Mr. Crookes began the investigation of the phenomena, in London. This courageous gentleman was the first to introduce to the public one of those alleged "materialized" sentries that [...]

"If, therefore, we should ever receive from some contemporaneous Faraday the same fling that that gentleman made years since, when, with more sincerity than good breeding, he said that "many dogs have the power of coming to much more logical conclusions than some spiritualists", we fear we must still persist.   Abuse is not argument, [...]

"Many years of wandering among "heathen" and "Christian" magicians, occultists, mesmerizers; and the tutti quantity of white and black art, ought to be sufficient, we think, to give us a certain right to feel competent to take a practical view of this doubted and very complicated question.   We have associated with the fakirs, the [...]