Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gift of deriving information, or rather perhaps of divining what is in the mind of another. I think I told you that once at a seance I asked the medium where and when my father had died, and he answered me with the exact ex- pression which I should myself have used in reply; but a year afterwards I discovered that he and I alike had made a mistake. Sixthly, We have table-turning, levitation, and other allied phenomena, for the truth of which the evidence is very strong, although I grant that such things have been much abused by impostors. I may state that I myself know a little girl, a friend of mine, of undoubted re- spectability, who, much against her will, is the medium of mysterious rappings, which I have listened to again and again, and tried in vain to account for. Seventhly, There are, I conceive, well- authenticated instances of what may be called the materialisation of spiritual presences, and indeed I am not without hope that such pre- sences will ultimately, when psychology is
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