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"Those who are unable to believe in a personal devil and the dogmas of the church must nevertheless accord to the clergy enough of shrewdness to prevent the compromising of her reputation for infallibility by making so much of manifestations which, if fraudulent, must inevitably be some day exposed.   But the best testimony to [...]

"Since 1850, des Mousseaux and de Mirville, uncompromising Roman Catholics, have published many volumes whose titles are cleverly contrived to attract public attention. They betray on the part of the authors a very serious alarm, which, moreover, they take no pains to conceal. Were it possible to consider the phenomena spurious, the church of Rome [...]

"The following affirmations of physical phenomena, as witnessed by himself and Professor Thury, may be found in de Gasparin's voluminous work.   "The experimenters have often seen the legs of the table glued, so to say, to the floor, and, notwithstanding the excitement of those present, refuse to be moved from their place.   On [...]

""I choose the nobler part of Emerson, when, after various disenchantments, he exclaimed, 'I covet Truth'. The gladness of true heroism visits the heart of him who is really competent to say this." - TYNDALL.   "A testimony is sufficient when it rests on: 1st. A great number of very sensible witnesses who agree in [...]