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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    object to them ?’ I asked. ‘Well/ he replied, ‘ you and the Countess are about to take a most solemn step, attended with very serious responsibilities, and I much question whether you or she will be able to discharge your duties so well if you give yourselves up to these peculiar manifestations. But I leave this matter entirely to yourselves, and I shall always feel greatly interested in the progress of your experiments/ ” ‘Thus you see, my dear Fairbank, how the poison was beginning to work; and I will now give you a short extract from a letter which I had from the fair Julia some months after her marriage :—■“ Father Prediger calls very frequently, and seems much interested in the progress of our experiments on electro-biology and clairvoyance, but Hermann is only half- hearted about them ; in fact, he seems inclined to give them up, and to devote his whole time to his old mathematical and physical studies.” ‘ And six months afterwards she writes :— “ Hermann has just made himself a great name ;
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