 | Hereward Carrington - 1907 - 478 pages
...I have heard them on a sheet of paper, held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the numerous...occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means." The next experiments I shall mention are those conducted by Professor Maxwell, quoting them... | |
 | Henry Holt - Mediums - 1914 - 536 pages
...I have heard them on a sheet of paper, held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the numerous...occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means." When Sir William Crookes gives his testimony regarding physical phenomena, there is not much... | |
 | Henry Holt - Parapsychology - 1919 - 540 pages
...I have heard them on a sheet of paper, held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the numerous...occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means." When Sir William Crookes gives his testimony regarding physical phenomena, there is not much... | |
 | Léon Chevreuil - Parapsychology - 1920 - 316 pages
...". . . With the full knowledge of the numerous theories which have been brought forward, especially in America, to explain these sounds, I have tested them in every imaginable manner, until it was absolutely impossible for me to escape the conviction that they were... | |
 | Mrs. Daniel Dunglas Home, Mme. Dunglas Home - Mediums - 1921 - 252 pages
...quoted in an early chapter his description of their varied nature. " With a full knowledge," he adds, " of the numerous theories which have been started,...occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means. ' ' Concerning the messages conveyed by means of these " percussive sounds," Mr. Crookes says... | |
 | William Henry Evans - Spiritualism - 1923 - 138 pages
...held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the theories which have been started, chiefly in America,...been no escape from the conviction that they were objective occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means." 2 . Movements of Objects . —... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - 2007 - 349 pages
...I have heard them on a sheet of paper, held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the numerous...occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means. So finishes the legend of cracking toe-joints, dropping apples, and all the other absurd explanations... | |
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I have felt them on my own shoulder, and under my own hands. I have heard them on a sheet of paper, held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the numerous theories which have been started, chiefly... 
