Excerpt from Some Examination of the Theory of Spiritualism
I was sitting one day at my writing table in my room, where, in my crippled condition, I have spent so long a time, when my old friend and neighbor, Judge David McDonald, came briskly into the room, and coming up behind my chair, laughingly said, "Bradley, I am either a fool, or a liar, or craxy, or this thing is true." I turned around to him, and said, "Judge, I hare known you now for more than twenty-five yean, much of the time very intimately, and I know you are neither a fool, nor a liar, nor craxy, not by a long-shot; now what is 'Me thing,1 which you say 'is true'?" "Why, Spiritualism," said he. "Spiritualism!!!" I repeated. "Why, Judge, I don't know anything about it. I have never given it any attention, except to read some of Swedenborg's writings; and once when in Hartford, in 1862, raising money to build our Indiana Central Railway, I was induced by a banker acquaintance there, to go one evening to see the performance of the celebrated Miss Fox. I went, saw nothing which I could think impossible to be done by any expert woman; staid about an hour, and came away. Yes, I now remember another time. One evening in Washington City, Mrs. Major Mace asked me to go with her to a friend's house, and witness some exhibition of it. I went. Joshna R. Giddings was there. He and I were each rather heavy men. We two were seated, one on each end of a very heavy piano.
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