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"Before venturing to decide the question whether the spectral animal forms so frequently seen and attested are the returning spirits of dead beasts, we most carefully consider their reported behavior.   Do these spectres act according to the habits and display the same instincts, as the animals during life? Do the spectral beasts of prey [...]

"Pausanias writes that four hundred years after the battle of Marathon, there were still heard in the place where it was fought, the neighing of horses and the shouts of shadowy soldiers. Supposing that the spectres of the slaughtered soldiers were their genuine spirits, they looked like "shadows", not materialized men.   Who, then, or [...]

"To these assertions may be opposed a fact well known among spiritualists: The writer has publicly certified to having seen such materialized forms. We have most assuredly done so, and are ready to repeat the testimony.   We have recognized such figures as the visible representations of acquaintances, friends, and even relatives. We have, in [...]

"If this philosophy is wrong, if all the "materialized" forms emerging in darkened rooms from still darker cabinets, are spirits of men who once lived upon this earth, why such a difference between them and the ghosts that appear unexpectedly - ex abrupto - without either cabinet or medium?   Who ever heard of the [...]