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"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 [...]

"In a recent philosophical work, The Unseen World, while showing that from the very definition of the terms, matter and spirit, the existence of spirit cannot be demonstrated to the senses, and that thus no theory is amenable to scientific tests, he deals a severe blow at his colleagues in the following lines:   The [...]

"Even the just and severe rebukes of some of their leading men are of no avail and the fear on the part of men of science to investigate such an unpopular subject, seems to have now become a general panic.   "The phenomena chase the scientists, and the scientists run away from the phenomena", very [...]