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Further, he recalled a motion he had made, when member of the Commune in 1871, to apply Fourier's ideas to the French Republic; and he was apparently convinced that the troops of Versailles had delayed the triumph of Communism for half a century. Whenever people nowadays talked of table-turning he pretended to laugh, but at bottom he had remained an impenitent "spiritist."
"That's quite true, Mr. Mole." "That Mr. Jefferson went with Mr. Harkaway and Harvey to see a necromancer?" "Yes." "Preposterous!" quoth Mr. Mole. "Why, whatever is the world coming to next? We shall have them spirit-rapping and table-turning and such-like muck, I suppose." Jack looked serious.
How the Karens manage it is less obvious. These savage devices with animated sticks clearly correspond to the more modern 'table-turning. Here, when the players are honest, the pushing is certainly unconscious.
It is very nearly all that we can do for the moment; but this first effort is not wholly to be despised. It has seemed to us then that it was our unknown guest that expressed itself in the name of the dead in table-turning and in automatic writing and speaking.
What must we think of the nature of spiritism, with its spirit-rappings, table-turning, spirit-apparitions, and so on? Can such of the facts as are not impostures and realities be explained by the laws of nature, the powers of material agents and of men?
Was there not there a grand easy-chair of stamped-leather, minus two of its hinder legs, which had genealogical associations through the Wilcoxes with the Vernons and through the Vernons quite across the water with Old England? and was there not a dusky picture, in an old tarnished frame, of a woman of whose tragic end strange stories were whispered, one of the sufferers in the time when witches were unceremoniously helped out of the world, instead of being, as now-a-days, helped to make their fortune in it by table-turning?
In the course of my career I have been consulted by a great many patients whose nervous systems have been disastrously upset by the practices you describe, by so-called spiritualism, table-turning, and so forth. One man I knew, trying to cultivate himself onto what he called 'a higher plane, cultivated himself into a lunatic asylum, where he still remains." "Then you consider spiritualism ?"
Rosa, who was carrying Ella Liebling, a girl of five years, on her crimson arm, looked pleased and laughed. "She is not coming on deck. She's taken up with fortune-telling and table-turning." Bulke, in whose eyes Rosa seemed to have found unqualified favour, took Siegfried Liebling, a boy of seven, from her hand and helped her place both children safely in steamer chairs.
The spirit-rappers had alighted at the château of Faverges, and thence had spread through the village; and the notary questioned them particularly. Shocked at Bouvard's scepticism, he invited the two friends to an evening party at table-turning. Was this a trap? Madame Bordin was to be there. Pécuchet went alone.
Last evening Miss Ada Shepard and I went to a neighboring villa to see some table-turning, which I have never seen, nor anything appertaining to spirits. Mr. Frank Boott was there and a Fleming, Una's drawing-master. "Mother." "Whose mother?" "Mrs. Hawthorne's. My dear child, I am with you. I wish to speak to you. My dearest child, I am near you. I am oftener with you than with any one."
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