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<center>''To the Editor of the “Spiritual Magazine.”''</center>
<center>''To the Editor of the “Spiritual Magazine.”''</center>
{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Doctor}},–It is but just now that I have seen in the ''Spiritual Magazine'' (p. 71) a letter from Mr. Home, in which I find the following passage:-
{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Doctor}},–It is but just now that I have seen in the ''Spiritual Magazine'' (p. 71) a letter from Mr. Home, in which I find the following passage:–
“When put to the test, all these rope-tyings are failures. You are aware that my cousin, Mr. Aksakof, has tried it in Russia, and a dead failure has been the result, as I knew it would be.”
“When put to the test, all these rope-tyings are failures. You are aware that my cousin, Mr. Aksakof, has tried it in Russia, and a dead failure has been the result, as I knew it would be.”
There is here a grave error. Of what does Mr. Home speak? If he speaks of our experience with Bredif, the rope-tyings were put to the test, and it was not a failure (see the article of Professor Boublerof, in the ''Psy. Studien'' of 1875). If he speaks of our ''seances ''with the Pettys at the Committee, it was a failure; but there was no rope-tying, because the Pettys were seated before the screen, and without being in any way secured.
There is here a grave error. Of what does Mr. Home speak? If he speaks of our experience with Bredif, the rope-tyings were put to the test, and it was not a failure (see the article of Professor Boublerof, in the ''Psy. Studien'' of 1875). If he speaks of our ''seances ''with the Pettys at the Committee, it was a failure; but there was no rope-tying, because the Pettys were seated before the screen, and without being in any way secured.
There is still another passage in this letter which strikes me :
There is still another passage in this letter which strikes me :–
“ A book was published lately in America, and pages were devoted to a person who had power over the spirits ! When one knows what the life of this person has been, it is simply monstrous that such ''assertions ''should be made.”
“ A book was published lately in America, and pages were devoted to a person who had power over the spirits ! When one knows what the life of this person has been, it is simply monstrous that such ''assertions ''should be made.”