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<center>From the N. Y. Graphic. May 4 1875</center> | |||
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| source title = | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 2, No. 9, May 6, 1875, p. 106 | ||
| publication date = | | publication date = 1875-05-06 | ||
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... | ''To the Editor of the Daily Graphic.'' | ||
I am place den so false a position before the reading public by a part of your review of my book, “People from the Other World,” that 1 ask the favor of space for a few remarks. In his friendly desire to say pleasant things of me, your reviewer makes it appear that my tests of the mediums were so crucial as to be actually cruel. He remarks of them, that “they were often very ingenious, and sometimes almost cruel to the mediums, who were subjected to the strain of painful positions sometimes for hours, and until they suffered utter nervous prostration;” whereas the fact is, that the matters in question were tests resorted to by sundry “committees of sceptics,” and denounced by me as brutal and unnecessary. In the whole course of my investigations, I never inflicted a moment’s pain upon a medium, nor do I consider it necessary to do so. I am no advocate for shooting or stabbing the materialized spirits without consent, nor the seizure of the forms, nor the use of vitriol. I agree with Mr. Crocker, that there are more scientific methods than these, and believe that it is perfectly easy to satisfy myself as to the verity of alleged phenomena without resort to cruelty. In the case of Mrs. Compton, of Havana, N. Y., a single thread of sewing cotton passed through the perforated lobes of her ears and sealed with wav to the back of her chair, proved as effective a safeguard against fraud, as the most ingenious of manacles, or the most intricate tangle of knots could have been. | |||
The large sale with which my book is meeting, proves that the public interest in “materialization” has been in no wise abated by the preposterous ''expose ''of the Katie King humbug, while before long, things will occur in this city, that will raise the excitement to fever heat A “Miracle Club” is being organized by some of the best of our citizens, who have secured the attendance of a private gentleman, in whose presence every wonder of Modern Spiritualism, including the materialization of the full-length spirit forms, occurs without a cabinet and in the light. | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Henry S. Olcott}}. | |||
Lotos Club, May 1. | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.26_1876-08-31.pdf|page=5|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 26, August 31, 1876, p. 305 | spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.26_1876-08-31.pdf|page=5|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 26, August 31, 1876, p. 305 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.20_1875-07-22.pdf|page=6|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 20, July 22, 1875, p. 234 | spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.20_1875-07-22.pdf|page=6|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 20, July 22, 1875, p. 234 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.09_1875-05-06.pdf|page=10|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 9, May 6, 1875, p. 106 | |||
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