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{{Style P-Subtitle|ANOTHER DISGRACE FOR SCIENCE.—THE ST. PETERSBURG

PROFESSORS IMITATE THOSE OF HARVARD AND LONDON. — A. N. AKSAKOFF’S NOBLE PROTEST.}}

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To the Editor of the ''Spiritual Scientist'':

The heartfelt thanks and gratitude of every Spiritualist ought to be forwarded to this noble defender of the cause, who regretted neither his time, trouble nor money to help the propagation of the truth.

{{Style P-No indent|''New York, April'' 19th, 1876.}}

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{{Style P-Subtitle|THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE ST. PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY, FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF MEDIUMISTIC MANIFESTATIONS.}}

In conclusion I beg leave to add that so long as the commission hold to the policy of flatly denying the phenomena, and see in them only charlatanry, they will neither attain to the object of their researches which was sketched in the first offer made by Mr. Mendeleyeff, nor will they satisfy those who certify to the existence of such manifestations. The committee forgets that the mediumistic power has its origin, force and support in domestic circles and in their own experiments against which the policy of negation and fraud is powerless. Such questions which have attained a social importance, cannot be solved by negation and an ignorance of them. Let Science and knowledge be on the side of the negators and skeptics, but upon the other side we have the conviction in the reality of facts; which conviction we have obtained by ''the evidence of our senses and by reason''.

{{Style P-No indent|''St. Petersburg, March'' 4th, 1876.}}

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Translated and prepared with the notes and explanations, for the ''Spiritual Scientist'', by “BUDDHA.”