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I then telegraphed back to Mr. B. begging him to explain the situation of my sister, when immediatel

Date of account: Published 1885
Source: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
Reference: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism · selected passage 158
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Have you not the 'slightest hesitation' in setting down persons of character and station as wilful perjurers?--nay, as motiveless perjurers?

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Have you not the 'slightest hesitation' in setting down persons of character and station as wilful perjurers?--nay, as motiveless perjurers? Or were they, one and all, deluded? Were the impressions their senses received due only to 'ill-regulated imaginations'? What sort of imagination is it that would persuade two men that a table which they sought, by main force, to prevent from moving, did move, without conceivable cause, in spite of their efforts? (p. 280.) Do people imagine 'such a clatter in the room that one can hardly endure it'?--or that 'every piece of furniture there was set in vibration'?--or such a pounding that the witness 'expected every moment that the floor of the apartment would sink beneath his feet'? (p.

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