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Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"The huckstering about of pompous names attached to the idiotic communications has given the scientific stomach such an indigestion that it cannot assimilate even the great truth which lies on the telegraphic plateaux of this ocean of psychological phenomena.   They judge by its surface, covered with froth and scum. But they might with equal [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"The position assumed by modern scientists is that even though the occurrence of certain mysterious phenomena in the presence of the mediums be a fact, there is no proof that they are not due to some abnormal nervous condition of those individuals.   The possibility that they may be produced by returning human spirits need [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"The phenomena are actually witnessed, mysterious in their nature - generally and perhaps wrongly termed spiritual - it is now idle to deny.   Allowing a large discount for clever fraud, what remains is quite serious enough to demand the careful scrutiny of science. "E pur se muove", the sentence spoken ages since, has passed [...]