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Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace, the great English naturalist, writes in his ''preface to Miracles and Modern Spiritualism'': | Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace, the great English naturalist, writes in his ''preface to Miracles and Modern Spiritualism'': | ||
{{ | {{Style P-Quote|Up to the time when I first became acquainted with the facts of Spiritualism, I was a confirmed philosophical sceptic. . . . I was so thorough and confirmed a materialist that I could not at that time find a place {{Page aside|235}}in my mind for the conception of spiritual existence. . . . ''Facts, however, are stubborn things''. . . . The facts beat me. They compelled me to accept them ''as facts'' . . . [and] led me to accept Spiritualism. (p. 7.)}} | ||
Mr. Nicholas Wagner, Professor of Zoology at the St. Petersburg University, writes at the beginning of his investigations:—“I accepted Professor Butleroff’s invitation to witness the phenomena produced by the medium Home who lived in his house, with the greatest mistrust and even aversion.” At the end of about twenty ''séances'' he closes a narrative full of the most inexplicable phenomena upsetting every scientific hypothesis with the following admission:— | Mr. Nicholas Wagner, Professor of Zoology at the St. Petersburg University, writes at the beginning of his investigations:—“I accepted Professor Butleroff’s invitation to witness the phenomena produced by the medium Home who lived in his house, with the greatest mistrust and even aversion.” At the end of about twenty ''séances'' he closes a narrative full of the most inexplicable phenomena upsetting every scientific hypothesis with the following admission:— | ||