Publisher's Preface
Introduction
Love of the Marvellous
Types of the Marvellous in our Day
Antiquity of Spiritualism
Its Evil Effects in our Day
What Spiritualism Believes
Who are in this Cage of Unclean Birds
Modern Spiritualists Subjects of Prophecy
Pharaoh Abandoned by all his Wizard Mediums
The Red Sea Catastrophe
The Materializations of the Magicians
What is Mind?
The Spinal Cord, and its Office
Facts Established by Phrenology
The Brain Double: but Mind a Unit
Intellect Depends on Brain
Organs of Sense Indispensable to Thought
How Came the First Thought of the First Man?
Animal Life Essential to Thought
Huxley and Tyndall's Definition of Life
Searching in the Wrong Direction for Life
No Being is Able to Comprehend Himself
The Principle Applied to Evolutionists and Spiritualists
John Locke's "Essays on the Human Understanding"
Materiality and Immateriality Contrasted
Thought Does not Travel
Rev. John Wesley on the Relations of Brain and Thought
Mr. Wesley's Belief
Bishop Foster's Belief
Luther did not Believe the Soul Immortal
Christ is a Material Being
Joseph Cook and Wesley
Man Relieved of all Moral Responsibility
Which?
Thought the Result of Organization
The Relation of Thought and Ghostism
The Brain and Senses Evolve Mind
The Relations of Life and Mind Illustrated
Animal and Mineral Magnetism Identical
Conditions of Breathing
The Lungs, Electricity, and Respiration
Electricity and the Circulation
The Motions of the Brain and Functions of Life
Philosophy of Memory
The Brain Grows Rigid by Age
Physical Impressions upon the Brain the Fundamental Principle
Illustrated by the Art of Photography
The Superiority of the Mental Structure
Frauds in Spiritual Phenomena Exposed by Mr. D. D. Home
How the Tricks are Perpetrated
Disclosures by the "Spiritual Scientist"
The Total Dark Seances
The Ghost Caught
The Eddys Caught at Last
Spiritualism Exposed
The Spirit Materialized
The Medium's Explanation
A Woman Suspended by Magnetism
The Telephone and the Human Ear
The Phonograph
Modern Art Illustrated
Dr. Franklin's Theory of Electricity
Dupuy's Theory
Laws Governing Electricity
Chemical Composition of Electricity
Power of Mental Magnetism
The "Experimentum Crucis"
Scientific Principle of the Phenomenon
Slate-Writing
"In and Out of the Form"
"Try the Spirits"—1 John 4:1
Mind Reading
Real Phenomena of Mr. Home's Book
Childish Nature of Spirit Revelations
Spirits See no Personal God
Mr. Home in Florence
Reconciled with Our Principle
Acts Covering the Whole Phenomena
Serious Questions
Do Ghosts Progress, as is Claimed?
How Mediums Read Messages
Our Own Experiments
Effect of Will upon a Circle
Consulting a Clairvoyant
What a Clairvoyant Sees
Why Clairvoyants Excel their Natural Powers
A Remarkable Feature of Insanity
Unknown Tongues Spoken from Brain Injuries
Brain Printing
Effects Produced by Fever
Mental Faculties Lost and Recovered
Infant Impressions Recalled at Mature Age
Brain Print Illustrated by Photography
Conditions of the Speaking Machine
Cultivation of Memory
The Witch of Endor
Saul a Full Ghost Believer
The Medium Reads Saul's Brain
Saul's Faith in Witchcraft the Cause of His Suicide
Source of the Intelligence of Home's Ghosts
Mental Telegraph
The Philosophy of this Communication
Our Own Experiments
Practical Tests for Spiritualists
No Being can use the Living Organs of Another
The Involuntary Organs cannot be Tampered with
Human Intelligence cannot Exist without Brain, or when it Softens; much Less when Decomposed
Review of Henry Kiddle's Book
Monotonous Sameness of Spirit Messages
Mr. Kiddle the Sole Ghost
Rule of Interpretation
Sailing under False Colors
God's Kingdom not in the Sky, but on the Earth
Ghostism and Future Life Contrasted
Kiddle's Doctrines Heathen Philosophy
Different Hypotheses of Immortality
The Resurrection Change
The Common Hypothesis Absurd
Summing up the Argument
Swedenborg Adopted
A Ghostly Blasphemer
Book on the Brain
Swedenborg and Judge Edmonds
Do Ghost Children Grow in Ghostland?
Spiritualism is Real Pantheism
Superficial Reasoning
Apparent Insincerity of Leading Spiritualists
Mind Reading and Judge Edmonds
Mind Reading Facts
Spirit Theory Exploded
Another Test of Exposure
Ghostism is Annihilation