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And now, Sir, I must leave it to the judgment of intelligent readers whether Mr. Wallace’s letters are, or are not effectually answered. Mr. Wallace started this discussion, and wrote two letters, under a complete misapprehension, as he soon discovered, of what the words were upon which the whole matter rests. Yet, in his last long communication there is not one syllable to indicate that he recognises any difference in sense between the words “If American mediums have ruined Spiritualism,” and the words which Fletcher actually used. For surely, if he had seen any substantial difference between them, he would have hastened to acknowledge his error, and at least have altered the spirit of his attack. But I am still magisterially censured in terms which seem to me peculiarly applicable to those who rush ignorantly into controversy. That Mr. Wallace should have done this in the first instance, and have afterwards devised such arguments as we have been considering, will be a matter of surprise and regret to many. | |||
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< Mr.Wallace's Defence of Mr. Fletcher (continued from page 10-448) >
columns, no jury in England could have been got to believe his subsequent denial, even had the case been otherwise more doubtful than it was.
And now, Sir, I must leave it to the judgment of intelligent readers whether Mr. Wallace’s letters are, or are not effectually answered. Mr. Wallace started this discussion, and wrote two letters, under a complete misapprehension, as he soon discovered, of what the words were upon which the whole matter rests. Yet, in his last long communication there is not one syllable to indicate that he recognises any difference in sense between the words “If American mediums have ruined Spiritualism,” and the words which Fletcher actually used. For surely, if he had seen any substantial difference between them, he would have hastened to acknowledge his error, and at least have altered the spirit of his attack. But I am still magisterially censured in terms which seem to me peculiarly applicable to those who rush ignorantly into controversy. That Mr. Wallace should have done this in the first instance, and have afterwards devised such arguments as we have been considering, will be a matter of surprise and regret to many.
<Untitled> (Sir,-I fear you must be almost tired of the Fletcher-Slade controversy...)
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Hackney Spiritual Evidence Society
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The Prosecution of Mediums by Spiritualists
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Editor's notes
- ↑ Sir,-I fear you must be almost tired of the Fletcher-Slade controversy... by Melhuish, Arthur James, London Spiritualist, The, No. 425, October 15, 1880, p. 189
- ↑ Hackney Spiritual Evidence Society by Williams, C.R., London Spiritualist, The, No. 425, October 15, 1880, p. 189
- ↑ The Prosecution of Mediums by Spiritualists by Mack Arrested, London Spiritualist, The, No. 425, October 15, 1880, pp. 189-91
Sources
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London Spiritualist, No. 425, October 15, 1880, p. 189