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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    hope to entertain two of your compatriots, who are special adepts in Electro-biology, and are also ‘ mediums’ of some note. Graf Ernst von Ehrenberg and his sister you must at least have heard of. Dr. Hermann St offkraft.—I am happy to call him an intimate friend. We were fellow- students in days when both were impecunious, and when a common patron provided for us at the University. Strange to say, we can still, without shame, acknowledge our obligations to him, great as they are. We were told that the ‘ correct thing’ was to cut him as soon as we could stand on our own feet. But Count Ernst, like myself, is a victim to conscience! His sister, I remember, was a merry little girl some dozen or so years ago. She must be a woman now. Sir Kenneth M‘Kelpie.—And one of the most charming of her sex, as I am sure you will confess when you have met her. But she is altogether above the frivolities of fashion— she has a mission—and, like all such semi-
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