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scientist of like courage, honesty and trained powers of research must inevitably reach at the end of a series of seances under such satisfactory test conditions as exclude the element of fraud from the problem. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the expedients resorted to guard against any intended bad faith on the part of M. Brediff; and Prof. Wagner’s compeers will, of necessity, be compelled to reflect over the phenomena of direct writing, bell-ringing, and the materialization of hands which he witnessed and has described so graphically. To suppose the contrary would imply, an extreme of moral cowardice on their part which we would be loath to expect even from men of science. Sir William Thomson, in his opening address before the British Association in 1870, said: “Science is bowed by the everlasting law of honor to face fearlessly every problem which can fairly be presented to it.” Let us see if the whole array of his bearers will prove themselves poltroons.
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