TO
MRS. HESTER S. DWINELLE.
| “Alonso. This is as strange a maze as ere men trod, And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge. “Prospero. Sir, my liege, Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness of this business: at picked leisure, Which shall be shortly, single I’ll resolve you (Which to you shall seem probable) of every These happen’d accidents: till when be cheerful, And think of each thing well.—Come hither, spirit; Set Caliban and his companions free: Untie the spell.” Shakespeare.—The Tempest. |
PREFACE.
This book has been written in extreme haste. It does not pretend to literary style. But it pretends to absolute truthfulness and a reverent regard for justice.
Its sole value is its character as a contribution to the real history of Spiritualism. As such, it is unquestionably of great importance, greater even than any work of the kind that has been published since the beginning of modern Spiritualism.
It is, in fact, what its title sets forth—“The DEATH-BLOW to SPIRITUALISM.”