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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: Putnam Subjects: Parapsychology Psychical research Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. SPIRITUALISM AS A POPULAR MOVEMENT. CONCURRENTLY with the immense expansion and development, during the last half century, of our knowledge of the material world, there has come a striking recrudescence in civilised countries of the old-time belief in agencies working outside and beyond physical nature. The modern revival, to go no farther back, may be said to date from the Rochester knockings, curious raps occurring in the presence of two or three members of the Fox family living in Rochester, New York, in the year 1848. From this small beginning, the occurrence of mysterious raps betraying an intelligent source, and referred by some to the agency of spirits, by others to supernormal powers exercised unconsciously by the Mediums, and by a few scientific men, who investigated the occurrences at the time, to voluntary cracking (z. e. partial dislocation ) of the knee-joints on the part of the girls concerned, arose the whole movement of Modern Spiritualism. The phenomena did not stop here. Within the course of the next few years, the press of the world recorded other marvels too numerous to detail. These may be roughly classified under two main heads, (a) There were first the physical phenomena, such as the raps already mentioned (which shortly became the recognised mode of communication with the spirits ); movements of furniture and small objects; playing of musical instruments without apparent contact; the appearance of so- called materialised spirit-forms; the levitation of the human body; app...

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