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presence of individuals whose organization offered some strange antagonism to such manifestations and made it impossible for them to sit with us. The predisposition or qualities of the individuality evidently play here an important part, and the above is proved most undoubtedly by the existence of the medium class.

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The movements of the table can be divided thus: trembling; its change of place, or its moving towards some of the circle; balancing, bending, tipping, and levitations. The tremblings or shakings of the table appear most frequently at the beginning of a seance. Sometimes they are so strong that the flame of the candle, placed on it, trembles and flickers very violently. I do not give a great importance to the above mentioned movements, as they can be easily simulated by rapid and clever contraction of the muscles of the hand. In short, I am obliged to confess here, that I never could have taken upon myself the responsibility of answering for the genuineness at all of such manifestations, had not I been thoroughly convinced of their reality, with the help and in company of a small circle of persons, all of whom were perfectly known to me, and every one of whom was as anxious as I was to convince himself of the truth of the phenomena. Our little seances went on at first without any recognized or paid medium, and the manifestations were undoubtedly produced through someone whose power, unbeknown to himself, compelled him to play the physiological part of a medium.

The movements of the table can be divided thus: trembling; its change of place, or its moving towards some of the circle; balancing, bending, tipping, and levitations. The tremblings or shakings of the table appear most frequently at the beginning of a seance. Sometimes they are so strong that the flame of the candle, placed on it, trembles and flickers very violently. I do not give a great importance to the above mentioned movements, as they can be easily simulated by rapid and clever contraction of the muscles of the hand. In short, I am obliged to confess here, that I never could have taken upon myself the responsibility of answering for the genuineness at all of such manifestations, had not I been thoroughly convinced of their reality, with the help and in company of a small circle of persons, all of whom were perfectly known to me, and every one of whom was as anxious as I was to convince himself of the truth of the phenomena. Our little seances went on at first without any recognized or paid medium, and the manifestations were undoubtedly produced through someone whose power, unbeknown to himself, compelled him to play the physiological part of a medium.