The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters - Softcover

Davenport, Reuben Briggs

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ISBN 10: 1153657902 ISBN 13: 9781153657907

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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Excerpt: ...the doings of the "Fox Sisters," contain this element of vagueness, the lack of precision and completeness, which to persons unaccustomed to analysis may possibly appear plausible enough, but to the experienced inquirer is merely a more certain proof of weakness and prevarication. Volumes might be written to meet the statements advanced in every case, and to show how Pg 126 clumsily misleading they are. It is not worth while at this late day, and in that direction, to do more than I have already accomplished in this chapter. Indeed, the actual demonstration of the fact that the far-famed "rappings" are produced in the manner described at the beginning of this work, should be quite sufficient to all logical minds, to condemn every claim that the professional mediums have advanced as being the agents of any supernatural manifestations. The good old Latin maxim never applied with greater force than it does here: Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus. The operations of the eldest sister all tended to the one end: fame and money. In Rochester, fees for the first time were accepted by "mediums," and shortly afterward a tariff of prices for admission to the s

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1153657902
• ISBN 13: 9781153657907
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 38