The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critucal Study Made with "uncommon Sense"K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1911 - 409 pages |
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admit agnostic Agnosticism appear asked Astley automatic writing belief bias brother called Christ Christian Church clairvoyance death difficulty divine doubt dream East Rudham Edmund Gurney Encyclopædia Britannica evidence example existence experience explanation fact faith father feeling G. H. Lewes give given guessing Gurney hallucinations hand Hodgson human illustration impression incident instance Jesus letter living Lodge Lodge's Lord Francis Douglas Maskelyne medium mediumship mental Mijatovitch mind miracles Miss Modern Spiritualism Myers nature never Newer Spiritualism observations percipient phenomena Phin Phinuit photograph Piper Podmore powers prayer probable Prof Professor proof psychical research question quoted reader reason recognised recorded remember scientific séance seen Sir Oliver Lodge sitter sitting soul spirit spiritualistic statement story subconscious successful supernatural supposed table-turning telepathy tell things thought tion told Tonga trance truth Uncle Jerry Vango words writing Zancig
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Page 176 - Woe unto you that are full! For ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! For ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! For so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Page 269 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 21 - On Thursday, the 25th of January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Pottern, in this county, agreed with three other women to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanting to make good the amount ; Ruth Pierce protested that she had paid her share, and said she wished she might drop down dead if she had not.
Page 145 - As soon as they are all seated the priest is considered as inspired, the god being supposed to exist within him from that moment. He...
Page 337 - I am persuaded of the medium's honesty, and of the genuineness of her trance; and although at first disposed to think that the 'hits' she made were either lucky coincidences, or the result of knowledge on her part of who the sitter was and of his or her family affairs, I now believe her to be in possession of a power as yet unexplained.
Page 21 - The mayor and corporation of Devizes avail themselves of the stability of this building to transmit to future times the record of an awful event, which occurred in this market-place in the year 1753, hoping that such...
Page 146 - ... universal trembling, the perspiration breaks out on his forehead, and his lips turning black are convulsed; at length tears start in floods from his eyes, his breast heaves with great emotion, and his utterance is choked. These symptoms gradually subside. Before this paroxysm comes on, and after it is over, he often eats as much as four hungry men under other circumstances could devour.
Page 253 - Many of the chiefs, on being asked by Mr. Mariner what motives they had for conducting themselves with propriety, besides the fear of misfortunes in this life, replied, the agreeable and happy feeling which a man experiences •within himself when he does any good action, or conducts himself nobly and generously, as a man ought to do : and this question they answered as if they wondered such a question should be asked.
Page 165 - ... chance should have any place in the universe or that events should depend upon any but the natural sequence of cause and effect...