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Modern spiritualism is a subject which at the present time is engaging much of public attention. Scientific and literary men of all classes are inquiring into the matter, in order that they may test its truthfulness, or expose it as an imposition. There is already a long list of distinguished men (whom we take as authorities on other momentous questions) convinced that spiritualism in itself is a truth, and that there is a force in existence yet unknown by the general body of mankind, and that this force does not as yet come under any known or recognised law. It is already the conviction amongst not a few distinguished men that spiritualism—called by some Psychic Force—is now in its bud and infancy, and that when wrested from the hands of impostors, and freed from the rubbish in which it is buried, it will in the centuries to come, if not in our own time, become one of the grandest and most sublime sciences we have. …