Published in 1880 | 264 pages | PDF reader required
CONTENTS
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 Materialisations 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
