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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|Dr. H.B. Storer}}, widely known among the liberal minds of the country, not only as a sincere and ardent Spiritualist but as a careful investigator, in speaking of unprincipled adventurers, says: — | ||
Now that the phenomena of materialization are upon the increase, and public interest and curiosity have been intensely stimulated by the careful statements of many trustworthy observers of these wonderful manifestations, it is not strange that unprincipled adventurers should take advantage of this interest, and seek to impose fraudulent representations upon the public. Several impostors, who have been traveling about the country as exposers of Spiritualism, finding that ''role ''of business unprofitable, now profess to have been recently developed as wonderful physical mediums, and announce genuine phenomena, religious seances, &c., taking public halls, or theatres, and hoping to impose successfully upon an ignorant but curious public. | |||
It would seem to be the simplest dictate of common sense, to say nothing of the imperative demands of scientific investigation, that all media for physical manifestations be put under absolute test conditions, ''i.e''., conditions that shall render imposture, on their part, impossible. What may occur under such conditions is of inestimable value in aiding us to study the relations of disembodied spirits to the forces and laws of the material world: unprotected by such conditions, the phenomena, even though genuine, are valueless, and tend to depreciate the importance of the claims which Spiritualism is to-day making upon the world. Such media as are unwilling to submit to test conditions, ought not to be sustained by the patronage of Spiritualists; and these public exhibitions of so-called materializations and physical manifestations, by irresponsible and untested parties, should be discredited by every true Spiritualist. | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.19_1875-07-15.pdf|page=12|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 19, July 15, 1875, p. 226 | |||
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