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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|The Relations of the Human Brain to Spiritual Phenomena|1-34}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|The Relations of the Human Brain to Spiritual Phenomena|1-34}} | ||
it was made under the discouragement and annoyance of the occasional fraud and imposture in spiritual seances which mingle with genuine phenomena, so as to disgust and repel superficial and prejudiced inquirers. In the only instance in which I have personally tested a materializing seance, about twenty years ago, at Cincinnati, I found it to be an unmistakable imposture, although the parties concerned were a branch of the same family which had produced many unquestionable materializations in Meigs County, Ohio. These impostures, I believe, will produce a good effect in checking blind credulity, and in repelling from the spiritual sphere a class of dogmatic, stubborn and superficial people, whose co-operation in any good cause is by do means desirable. They who cannot recognize diamonds when they are mingled with common earth, will not be successful as explorers, or do much to enlarge the area of philosophy. | {{Style P-No indent|it was made under the discouragement and annoyance of the occasional fraud and imposture in spiritual seances which mingle with genuine phenomena, so as to disgust and repel superficial and prejudiced inquirers. In the only instance in which I have personally tested a materializing seance, about twenty years ago, at Cincinnati, I found it to be an unmistakable imposture, although the parties concerned were a branch of the same family which had produced many unquestionable materializations in Meigs County, Ohio. These impostures, I believe, will produce a good effect in checking blind credulity, and in repelling from the spiritual sphere a class of dogmatic, stubborn and superficial people, whose co-operation in any good cause is by do means desirable. They who cannot recognize diamonds when they are mingled with common earth, will not be successful as explorers, or do much to enlarge the area of philosophy.}} | ||
Trusting that your book may serve to attract the wise and good alone. | Trusting that your book may serve to attract the wise and good alone. | ||
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I remain yours cordially, | I remain yours cordially, | ||
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''To the Editor of The Spiritual Scientist:'' | {{Style P-No indent|''To the Editor of The Spiritual Scientist:''}} | ||
Sir : The comments of Mr. Robert Cooper, of England upon my assertion that I could not obtain such opportunities for applying tests to the Eddys as I desired, were suitably answered in your editorial postcript to his letter, in the ''Scientist'' of last week; and I might well be excused from taking any further notice of so shallow a critic. But, as the occasion seems favorable for a few pertinent hints to investigators of the Spiritualistic phenomena, I ask your indulgence. | Sir : The comments of Mr. Robert Cooper, of England upon my assertion that I could not obtain such opportunities for applying tests to the Eddys as I desired, were suitably answered in your editorial postcript to his letter, in the ''Scientist'' of last week; and I might well be excused from taking any further notice of so shallow a critic. But, as the occasion seems favorable for a few pertinent hints to investigators of the Spiritualistic phenomena, I ask your indulgence. | ||
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I have said, on more than one occasion, that I protest {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-36}} | I have said, on more than one occasion, that I protest {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-36}} | ||
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