The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
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Page 85
... later to be President of the fledgling Society for Psychical Research , wrote to his mother in 1874 : No - one who has not read Crookes's articles in the Quarterly Journal of Science , or some similar statement , has any idea of the ...
... later to be President of the fledgling Society for Psychical Research , wrote to his mother in 1874 : No - one who has not read Crookes's articles in the Quarterly Journal of Science , or some similar statement , has any idea of the ...
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... later , when Morley was consulting him about some change in the terms of his engagement with the paper , he interrupted with the words , ' Excuse me , Mr Morley , when will this new arrangement come into effect ? ' ' In May , I think ...
... later , when Morley was consulting him about some change in the terms of his engagement with the paper , he interrupted with the words , ' Excuse me , Mr Morley , when will this new arrangement come into effect ? ' ' In May , I think ...
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... later , however , the blow had fallen and not been averted . A friend wrote : ' As bearing on your terrible loss , the meaning seems to be that the blow would fall but would not crush ; it would be " lightened " by the assurance ...
... later , however , the blow had fallen and not been averted . A friend wrote : ' As bearing on your terrible loss , the meaning seems to be that the blow would fall but would not crush ; it would be " lightened " by the assurance ...
Contents
Mr Sludge and Other Mediums | 42 |
Scientists and Spirits | 77 |
The GhostGrabbers | 98 |
Copyright | |
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Adare Alfred Russel Wallace appeared asked began believe Bien Bisson cabinet certainly committee Conan Doyle confession conjurer convinced course Crandon Crookes's curtains D.D. Home Davenport Brothers Dr Kane ectoplasm effect Eusapia experiments extraordinary face fact feet Florence Cook Fox sisters fraud ghost girls Guppy hand happened Harry Price Harry Price Collection heard Hereward Carrington Hodgson Home's Houdini Hydesville Ibid interest investigation James Kate Fox Katie King lady later Leah letters light living Lodge London look Madame Blavatsky Maggie magician manifestations Margery Marthe Maskelyne materializations medium mediumistic mediumship Miss Cook Myers never Noël once perhaps person phantom phenomena photographs Piper possible produced psychical research question raps Richard Hodgson Richet Rochester Schrenck Schrenck-Notzing scientific scientists seance seemed seen Sidgwick sitting Society spirit spiritualist Stead things thought tion told took trance trick wanted wife William Crookes wrote York
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