[104] One of the greatest women born in America.—H. H.
[105] This Spirit Message is taken from Doyle’s book, “The Case for Spirit Photography,” English Edition.
[106] This and letters of Tyndall and Lewes, from “Report on Spiritualism,” by J. Burns, pp. 229, 230, 265.
[107] “Spiritism, a Popular History,” by Joseph McCabe.
[108] “Master Workers,” McCabe.
[109] Florence Cook was repeatedly exposed.
[110] The “galvanometer” is an instrument used to control the medium. It is an electric device provided with a dial and two handles, so constructed that if the medium were to let go of either handle the contact would be broken and the dial fail to register. The medium in fooling the sitter simply placed one of the handles on the bare flesh under her knee and gripping it there with her leg kept the circuit intact and left one hand free to produce “spirits.”
[111] An honest scientist does not dream that his confidence is being betrayed and that the bland innocence, the “stalling” for breath, or the almost fainting scenes are only camouflages to help mal-observation so that the medium can successfully ply her trade.
[112] The italics are mine.
[113] The reader will do well to read Tuke’s “Influence of the Mind upon the Body” (or similar work) and he will find an explanation of what grief will do to a sensitive mind.