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{{Style P-Title|THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION}} | {{Style P-Title|THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION}} | ||
{{Style P-Subtitle|ANOTHER DISGRACE FOR SCIENCE.—THE ST. PETERSBURG | |||
PROFESSORS IMITATE THOSE OF HARVARD AND LONDON. — A. N. AKSAKOFF’S NOBLE PROTEST. | PROFESSORS IMITATE THOSE OF HARVARD AND LONDON. — A. N. AKSAKOFF’S NOBLE PROTEST.}} | ||
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To the Editor of the Spiritual Scientist: | To the Editor of the Spiritual Scientist: | ||
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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. | 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-Signature|H. P. BLAVATSKY. | {{Style P-Signature|H. P. BLAVATSKY.}} | ||
New York, April 19th, 1876.}} | {{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.}} | |||
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Thus, this series of investigations, with an undoubtedly good medium, has shown me very clearly, that the conclusion to which I arrived after hearing Mr. Mendeleyeff’s lecture as to the preconceived intentions of our commission was correct. | Thus, this series of investigations, with an undoubtedly good medium, has shown me very clearly, that the conclusion to which I arrived after hearing Mr. Mendeleyeff’s lecture as to the preconceived intentions of our commission was correct. | ||
But, apart from the above reason, there are two more which preclude the possibility of my having anything more to do with the Scientific Commission. | But, apart from the above reason, there are two more which preclude the possibility of my having anything more to do with the Scientific Commission. | ||
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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. | 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-Signature|A. AKSAKOFF. | {{Style P-Signature|A. AKSAKOFF.}} | ||
St. Petersburg, March 4th, 1876.}} | {{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.” | |||