Mesmerism, spiritualism, &cD. Appleton and Company, 1877 - 158 páginas |
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A. R. Wallace able accepted admitted affirmed afterwards agency Animal Magnetism answer Appendix asked asserted assured believe blindfolded body Braid claim clairvoyant common sense completely conclusion Cotton Mather delusion direction Divining Rod dominant idea enquiry entirely Epidemic evidence excited exerted expectancy experience extraordinary eyes fact faith finger flagellant Forbes further girl globules ground hand indicated influence instance investigation involuntary JULIUS PAYER kind lecture letter Lewis magnetised manifestations marvels medium mental Mesmeric sleep mesmerised mind Morpeth movements nature number of persons occult occurrences Odometer Odylic operator ordinary oscillations patient pendule explorateur performances phenomena planchette possessed prepossession present previously produced Professor proof proved question raps regard replied Sadduceeism scientific séance seemed sensations Simon Magus Somnambulism sources of fallacy spirits Spiritualistic standing desk success supposed suspended Table-turning testimony tion told unconsciously University of Aberdeen whilst Witch witchcraft witness
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Página 65 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Página vii - The reader of these lectures will see that my whole aim is to discover, on the generally accepted principles of testimony, what are facts ; and to discriminate between facts and the inferences drawn from them. I have no other ' theory ' to support than that of the constancy of the well-ascertained laws of Nature.
Página 104 - Report on Spiritualism of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society,' you will find that Dr. Edmunds, the chairman of that Committee, not only detected a well-known professional ' medium ' in making the raps with her foot, but observed that she regulated her raps by intently watching the questioner, and that when she was prevented from doing this by the interposition of a screen, her raps were altogether 1 Mr.
Página 150 - Rochester made me suspect that they were deceiving. I resolved to satisfy myself in some way, and sometime afterwards I made a proposition to Catherine to assist her in producing the manifestations. I had a cousin visiting me from Michigan, who was going to consult the spirits ; and I told Catherine that if they intended going to Detroit, it would be a great thing for them to convince him. I also told her that if I could do anything to help her, I would do it cheerfully ; that I should probably be...
Página 134 - I told her to look attentively, and she would see fire come out of it, she speedily saw sparks, and presently it seemed to her to burst forth, as she had witnessed an artificial representation of the volcano of Mount Vesuvius at some public gardens. Without her knowledge, I closed down the lid of the trunk which contained the magnet, but still the same appearances -were described as visible. By putting leading questions, and asking her to describe what she saw from another part of the closet (where...