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I looked at her, startled, and failing to see any mischievous sparkle in her eye replied

Date of account: Published 1924
Source: A Magician Among the Spirits
Reference: A Magician Among the Spirits · selected passage 33
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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“Some persons think that the requirement of darkness seems to infer trickery

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“Some persons think that the requirement of darkness seems to infer trickery. Is not a dark chamber essential in the process of photography? And what would we reply to him who would say, ‘I believe photography to be a humbug--do it all in the light, and we will believe otherwise’? It is true that we know why darkness is necessary to the production of the sun-pictures; and if scientific men will subject these phenomena to analysis, we shall find out why darkness is essential to such manifestations. It is a subject which scientific men are not justified in treating with the neglect of contempt.--I am, etc.,

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