Excerpt from The Spiritual Delusion: The Philosophy and Phenomena Critically Examined

In presenting this little work to the public, it may be well to state at the outset that no new theory is urged to account for the "spiritual manifestations" so loudly asserted to be everywhere occurring, nor is it designed to definitely map out the causes of all the phenomena presented by "mediums" with the accuracy of a phrenological chart.

While not assuming to offer anything new on this well-worn subject, it has seemed to the author that an examination of the claim of the spiritists, that disembodied fellow-mortals do communicate and manifest themselves to us, might commend itself to many still halting in their convictions with regard to these singular phenomena. That they are not the result of spiritual beings operating from the unseen may be definitely shown; and to group together the various reasons leading to this conclusion, to show that the phenomena in question do not require the presence of hypothetical "spirits," is the aim of the following pages.

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