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itself ''by ''and ''through ''the persons forming the circle,—and the parties included in it, are drawn into a peculiar state of disposition according to the condition of the medium himself. Undeniable facts go towards proving to us that the nervous disposition of the latter is communicated to the former.

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Thus, we find in the chronicles of Spiritualism several recorded cases, where the most ''anti''-mediumistical persons received the gift of mediumship after having been present at several seances, with a very powerful medium. It becomes evident thus, that this faculty can become contagious, like many nervous diseases. I am perfectly aware of the fact that from a physiological standpoint the above explanation is deficient; but it is hard to think of any other which could better describe the existing facts. I cannot accept the explanation of it, which Faraday attempted, some twenty years ago, —that it is simply an unconscious action of the muscles; or the profoundly absurd theory of “unconscious cerebration,” offered us by Carpenter; a theory that explains nothing at all.

Thus, we find in the chronicles of Spiritualism several recorded cases, where the most ''anti''-mediumistical persons received the gift of mediumship after having been present at several seances, with a very powerful medium. It becomes evident thus, that this faculty can become contagious, like many nervous diseases. I am perfectly aware of the fact that from a physiological standpoint the above explanation is deficient; but it is hard to think of any other which could better describe the existing facts. I cannot accept the explanation of it, which Faraday attempted, some twenty years ago, —that it is simply an unconscious action of the muscles; or the profoundly absurd theory of “unconscious cerebration,” offered us by Carpenter; a theory that explains nothing at all.