Excerpt from Planchette or the Despair of Science
To The Rev. W. M.: -
My dear Friend, - More than twenty years ago, we ventured to cross the border of what Ennemoser calls "the great ill-famed land of the marvellous." Certain manifestations arrested our notice. Repelled and, for a long time, baffled by what seemed merely grotesque or trivial, we did not abandon inquiry. Our interest in the proscribed phenomena has not yet abated. We have lived to see the smile of derision with which the spiritual hypothesis that accompanied them was at first saluted, grow fainter, until it now rarely appears on the lips of well-informed persons; and the question is put seriously, even by doctors of divinity and veterans of Science, "What do these things means?"
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