This Is A New Release Of The Original 1897 Edition.

1897. Being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times. Some of the readers of these pages will in all probability be disappointed in finding the characters and doings of spirits much less interesting and creditable than they are as represented in the familiar writings of Dante and Milton. It must be borne in mind that this is not a work of the imagination, and that the author is not responsible for the characters he introduces. His object is to present a truthful statement of facts, confident that from such a course, nothing but good can come to the cause either of science or religion.

1897. Being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times. Some of the readers of these pages will in all probability be disappointed in finding the characters and doings of spirits much less interesting and creditable than they are as represented in the familiar writings of Dante and Milton. It must be borne in mind that this is not a work of the imagination, and that the author is not responsible for the characters he introduces. His object is to present a truthful statement of facts, confident that from such a course, nothing but good can come to the cause either of science or religion.

Being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times. Some of the readers of these pages will in all probability be disappointed in finding the characters and doings of spirits much less interesting and creditable than they are as represented in the familiar writings of Dante and Milton. It must be borne in mind that this is not a work of the imagination, and that the author is not responsible for the characters he introduces. His object is to present a truthful statement of facts, confident that from such a course, nothing but good can come to the cause either of science or religion.