from Adyar archives of the International Theosophical Society
vol. 3 (1875-1878)
Legend
< The Facts and the Opposition (continued from page 3-157) >
occurred if 1 had been there,’ or he smiles and says, ‘Ah, indeed!’ and thinks you are a fool. If you press the point, and ask him to explain it, and tell him the details, and show him that his explanation does not accord with the facts, he assumes at once that you were incapable of investigation, that you were humbugged, or that you lie. Humbug is the great word he uses—a very expansive one. which means anything or nothing. If you reply, ‘How humbugged? Where is the humbug? Point it out—I desire to know it as much as you,’ he declines to particularize and prefers the generalization of—Humbug.”
Mistery of Dreams
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Divination Among the Natives of the Zambesi
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Francis Gerry Fairfield on Electricity and Spiritualism
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A Haunted House
Excitement at Lynn – Mysterious Raps and Thumps – A Clergyman Called in
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Editor's notes