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vation to his disadvantage. I would have fair and full investigation, and am more than willing to give a hearing both sides of any open question; but to present to the readers of the Scientist a communication, evidently written with the intention of casting suspicion upon the genuineness of the phenomena, at Chittenden, without any accompanying remarks which might qualify such adverse influence, seems to me worse than a waste of valuable space in a paper which so heartily endorses Col. Olcott’s book. This book depends almost wholly for its interest upon the thoroughness and reliability of the author’s investigation of the mediumship the Eddys, while if those manifestations at Spirit Vale be fairly represented by the correspondent of the Boston Herald, they certainly could not have forced upon a disinterested, patient, and determined investigator a conviction of their genuineness.

vation to his disadvantage. I would have fair and full investigation, and am more than willing to give a hearing both sides of any open question; but to present to the readers of the Scientist a communication, evidently written with the intention of casting suspicion upon the genuineness of the phenomena, at Chittenden, without any accompanying remarks which might qualify such adverse influence, seems to me worse than a waste of valuable space in a paper which so heartily endorses Col. Olcott’s book. This book depends almost wholly for its interest upon the thoroughness and reliability of the author’s investigation of the mediumship the Eddys, while if those manifestations at Spirit Vale be fairly represented by the correspondent of the Boston Herald, they certainly could not have forced upon a disinterested, patient, and determined investigator a conviction of their genuineness.

The truth is, Agassiz was himself a subject of the spiritual phenomena, if he would have submitted, for no one was ever so thoroughly mesmerized as Agassiz, unless he had a capacity for spiritual mediumship. Had he possessed a respectable amount of scientific honesty and moral courage, the facts of both Mesmerism and Spiritualism would been introduced the heart {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |1-51}}

The truth is, Agassiz was himself a subject of the spiritual phenomena, if he would have submitted, for no one was ever so thoroughly mesmerized as Agassiz, unless he had a capacity for spiritual mediumship. Had he possessed a respectable amount of scientific honesty and moral courage, the facts of both Mesmerism and Spiritualism would been introduced the heart {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |1-51}}