Hydesville / The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Hydesville, by Thomas Olman Todd



A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
—Wordsworth.

Some secret truths from learned pride concealed, To maids alone and children are revealed: What though no credit doubting wits may give, The fair and innocent shall still believe.
—Pope.
Rightly viewed, no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows, through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. —Carlyle.
Rivers from bubbling springs Have rise at first, and great from abject things.
—Middleton.