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| source details = | | source details = v. 5 No. 8, October 26, 1876, p. 91 | ||
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.. | {{Style S-Small capitals|A writer}} in Blackwood's Magazine (said to be W. W. Story, the American artist and author) has the following appropriate remarks on the present attitude of Science toward the facts of Spiriturlism: — | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |3-158}} | “The real question Is, ‘Do the facts of so-called Spiritualism exist or not?’ If so, how are they to be explained? If the facts clearly take place, it is idle to reject them because a foolish theory is advanced to explain them. Repeated failures or repeated cheating prove nothing. No scientific man would investigate any other question in the same spirit as he does this. If the matter were worthy of consideration at all, he would not be stopped in his researches by repeated failures to obtain his end. He would try again and again. Suppose the experiment fails a hundred times and succeeds once, the important fact is the one success, not the hundred failures. There is no reason either for or against the existence of any phenomenon ''a priori''. The mere fact that it is contrary to our experience is no proof that it does not exist. | ||
“But now if you recount to the man of science any phenomenon perfectly material and physical, as having occurred in your presence under conditions contrary to his preconceived opinions or experience, he says, ‘It would not have {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |3-158}} | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.15_1876-12-14.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 15, December 14, 1876, p. 159 | spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.15_1876-12-14.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 15, December 14, 1876, p. 159 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.03_1875-03-25.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 3, March 25, 1875, p. 27 | spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.03_1875-03-25.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 3, March 25, 1875, p. 27 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.15_1876-10-26.pdf|page=7|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5 No. 8, October 26, 1876, p. 91 | |||
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