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Published in 1852 | 102 pages | PDF reader required
INTRODUCTION
In bringing out before the world these few broken sentences for public inspection, we would not have you believe that we have any other intention or design, but to benefit as far as possible our fellow-men, by the disclosure of truths that we have obtained by impartial and earnestly-pursued investigations, with reference to the modern phenomena, called "Spirit Manifestations," which is awakening all classes of minds. Having for some time been a believer in the verity of the spiritual nature of these phenomena, and also had the opportunity of being what is called a "medium," I have taken much time and trouble to trace out the real causes that were operating to produce such mysterious effects, and I now am confident to believe that these operations are fait new phases in the fields of mind and matter, and the solution is found in Electricity, Electrical Psychology, and Clairvoyance.
For, in the yet unexplored fields of the electric element, and the application of this same element as a medium from matter to mind, and also the yet dark and misty realms of clairvoyance, with the intuitive principles of mind—all these, taken in connection, present a wide and almost unbounded field, respecting which the great mass of minds know but little. And as many friends have often requested us to publish to the world the results of our somewhat extended investigations, we have at last reluctantly yielded to such requests; thinking that perhaps we might have obtained some ideas that would be aids to the minds of the earnest seekers for the truth, respecting this all-engrossing phenomena. But to one class of minds we have a word to say, that does not pertain to this phenomena. That class comprises the critic, whose greatest passion seems to be to seek and trace out grammatical errors, and hurl them as cudgels to the head of the writer. Now, dear critic, we pray you forbear; for we do not present the following pages as a regularly prepared and studied book, but merely as broken sentences, extracts, and illustrations. And hoping that the reader may obtain some ideas that will aid him in his researches respecting this new phenomena, we submit the following pages to him and the public.