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In one case a perfumed clay was used, and, although the impressions secured 'resembled Eusapia's face grown old, no scent of the wax could be detected on her cheeks. Bottazzi gives much space to these 'mediumistic explorations of the cabinet. He could follow these blind, mysterious gropings of the invisible Eusapia by closely controlling the real Eusapia.
Bottazzi says: 'It would be necessary to have Paladino's fingers in the palm of one's hand, as I had that evening, in order to be convinced that the evolutions, twangings of the strings, etc., all synchronized with the very delicate movements of her fingers.... I cannot describe the sensation one experiences when seeing an inanimate object moved, not for a moment merely, but for many minutes in succession, by a mysterious force."
The most decisive of all the tests have been made during the last eighteen months, and the final and most convincing of all within the year, under the direction of Lombroso, Morselli, and Bottazzi.
Bottazzi, like Lombroso and Richet, was aware that he had entered upon a long road. He knew that a tired or worried medium was helpless. He called the same circle together for the 20th, willing to try patiently for developments. All came but Lombardi, whose place was taken by M. Jona, an engineer. The second sitting was a wonder.
But to borrow force from the medium is not the same thing as to be identical with the medium." "Well," said I, "of this I am certain: we cannot afford to ignore such experiments as those of Morselli and Bottazzi.
"Bottazzi himself says, with reference to his experiments: 'In spite of all the hundreds of those who have observed Eusapia, it still remained true to say that hitherto she had been free to throw things about as she pleased. But all this took a sharp turn when she came into Bottazzi's laboratory." "Just who is Bottazzi?" Harris asked.
Maxwell proved it by experiments on his own person, and now Bottazzi is proving it in a larger way. 'A few moments later, he says, 'a glass was flung from the cabinet by these invisible agencies, and this fling coincided exactly with a kick which Paladino gave to Jona, as if the same will governed both movements." Miller was thinking very hard.
"On the contrary, Bottazzi declares the phantoms also conformed to this same law.
Warned by his first experience, Bottazzi nailed or screwed every movable thing fast to the walls of the cabinet. He was resolute to force 'John, the supposed 'guide, to touch the electric button and press the ball of India-rubber that connected with a mercury manometer. He intended to teach the spirit hand to register its actions on a revolving cylinder of smoked tin.
I am ready to agree that a new era began for spiritism when Eusapia entered that room, April 17, 1907." "Poor Paladino!" sighed Mrs. Cameron. "I tremble for her." "Bottazzi grimly says: 'We began by restraining her inexhaustible mediumistic activity. We obliged her to do things she had never done before.
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