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"After expending their energy on such puerile theories as "unconscious cerebration", "involuntary muscular contraction", and the sublimely ridiculous one of the "cracking knee-joints" (le muscle craqueur); after meeting ignominious failures by the obstinate survival of the new force, and finally, after every desperate effort to compass its obliteration, these filii diffidentiae - as St. Paul [...]

"A tornado of indignation followed the confession. Mr. Crookes depicts it in his pamphlet on Psychic Force. He heads it very pointedly with the quotation from Galvani: "I am attacked by two very opposite sects - the scientists and the know-nothings, yet I know that I have discovered one of the greatest forces in nature...." [...]

"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 [...]