This is almost the history of the experience of Kate Fax at Hydesville.
[92] As examples of responses obtained by psychography, we may cite the following definitions given by Eugene Nus and his collaborateurs, artists, philosophers, and men of letters:
Physics.—Knowledge of material forces that produce life and the organism of worlds.
Chemistry.—Study of different properties of materials, either simple or composite.
Mathematics.—Properties of forces and numbers flowing from the universal laws of order.
Electricity.—Direct force from the earth, emanating from particular life to worlds.
Magnetism.—Animal force, holding persons together; bond of universal life.
Galvanism and Electro-Magnetism.—Combined forces of earthly and animal life.
[93] “I am attacked by two classes of different persons,” says Galvani, “the savants and the ignorant; all torment and ridicule me, calling me the dancing master of frog legs. Meantime, I believe I have discovered one of the great forces of Nature.”
[94] Laplace; “Traite du calcul des probabilities.”