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Date of account: Published 1885
Source: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
Reference: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism · selected passage 77
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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"They appear to be intelligent persons, and there is little, if anything, in their manner that looks like simulation or imposture

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"They appear to be intelligent persons, and there is little, if anything, in their manner that looks like simulation or imposture. We are a perfect heretic in all such beliefs, and never did have faith in anything that we could not understand. As to ghosts, spectres, witchcraft, or Spirits from the other world, we have never believed in any of them, consequently it cannot trouble us if we are occasionally deceived; and we are seldom vexed at being hoaxed in anything. We have attained a period of such wonderful discoveries in science and the arts--we accomplish so many extraordinary triumphs and unaccountable enterprises in the present age--that our motto is 'nil admirari.' Let us see all that is to be seen as quickly as possible, before we shake off this 'mortal coil.' After steam and the telegraph, we are ready to believe anything.

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