Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c., Historically & Scientifically Considered: Being Two Lectures Delivered at the London InstitutionD. Appleton and Company, 1895 - 158 páginas |
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72 Fifth Avenue A. R. Wallace accepted action admitted affirmed afterwards agency Animal Magnetism answer Appendix asked asserted assured believe blindfolded body Braid brought 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 George Goble girl globules ground hand indicated influence instance investigation involuntary kind Lectures letters magnetised manifestations marvels medium ment mental MERISM mesmeric mesmerised mind movements muscular nature number of persons occult occurrences Odometer Odyle operator ordinary oscillations patient pendule explorateur performances phenomena planchette possessed prepossession present previously produced proof proved question raps regard replied Sadduceeism sceptical scientific séance seemed sensations Simon Magus Somnambulism sources of fallacy spirits Spiritualistic standing desk success supposed Table-turning testimony tion told unconsciously whilst whole Witch witchcraft witness York
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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. Wallace explains this result by assuming that the raps were caused by 'invisible beings,'...