Some Examination of the Theory of Spiritualism (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Examination of the Theory of Spiritualism I was sitting one day at my writing table in my room, where, in my crippled condition, I have spent so long a time, when my old friend and neighbor, Judge David McDonald, came briskly into the room, and coming up behind my chair, laughingly said, "Bradley, I am either a fool, or a liar, or craxy, or this thing is true." I turned around to him, and said, "Judge, I hare known you now for more than twenty-five yean, much of the time very intimately, and I know you are neither a fool, nor a liar, nor craxy, not by a long-shot, now what is 'Me thing, 1 which you say 'is true'?" "Why, Spiritualism, " said he. "Spiritualism!!!" I repeated. "Why, Judge, I don't know anything about it. I have never given it any attention, except to read some of Swedenborg's writings, and once when in Hartford, in 1862, raising money to build our Indiana Central Railway, I was induced by a banker acquaintance there, to go one evening to see the performance of the celebrated Miss Fox. I went, saw nothing which I could think impossible to be done by any expert woman, staid about an hour, and came away. Yes, I now remember another time. One evening in Washington City, Mrs. Major Mace asked me to go with her to a friend's house, and witness some exhibition of it. I went. Joshna R. Giddings was there. He and I were each rather heavy men. We two were seated, one on each end of a very heavy piano. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.