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Perhaps his state of mind is best expressed at the close of his statement concerning the registration of the movements of 'the spirit hand. He says, in effect: 'These tracings demonstrate irrefutably that the keys were repeatedly pressed with perfect synchronism, the outside key with Eusapia's left hand, the one inside the cabinet by another, which a convinced spiritist would call that of a "materialized spirit," and which I believe to be neither the one nor the other, although I am not able to explain what it was."
'Each advance of the table corresponded, says Bottazzi, 'with the most perfect synchronism, to the push of Eusapia's legs against Jona's knees'; in other words, she really executed movements identical with those that she would have made had she been pushing the table out of the cabinet with her visible limbs."
"I don't account for it or if I did give my theory, you would laugh at me. Wait till I tell you what these Italians are doing. Among the most eminent and persuasive of all Eusapia's investigators was Professor Charles Richet, the French physiologist and author. Eusapia came to revere and trust him, and gave him many sittings. He, too, was bowled over.
"All this is merely a kind of prelude," I resumed, "for Bottazzi apparently proved that the invisible hand of Eusapia's invisible arm could not penetrate a cage of wire mesh that covered the telegraphic key in the cabinet. 'How, then, can we consider it to be a spirit hand an immaterial hand when a wire-netting can stop it? he very pertinently inquires." "That's what troubles me," said Miller.
Certainty does not follow on demonstration; it follows on habit. So don't blame Miller or myself for inability to believe in these theories, for our minds are the kind that accept the mystical with sore struggle." "Go on with Eusapia's career," said Harris. "I am interested in her. I want the story of the investigations." "Her story broadens," I resumed.
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.
"But how will he account for the difference in size between Eusapia's hands and the large black hand that she saw and felt?" asked Fowler. "Bottazzi himself remarks upon this discrepancy. 'To whom does this hand belong? he asked 'this hand, a half a yard away from the medium's head, seen while her visible hands are rigorously controlled by her two neighbors?
'Eusapia's attitude was that of a blindfolded person exploring space with her hands to find a lost object! he exclaims, at one point. 'Eusapia opened my right hand, stretched out my three middle fingers, and, bending them on the table, tips downward, said, in a whisper: "How hard it is! What is it?" I did not understand, says Bottazzi. 'She continued: "There, on the chair."
May I take this occasion to repeat here what I have often repeated in public and private, elsewhere? and that is, that I retain my unshaken belief, amounting to a conviction, in the genuineness of Eusapia's power, and that, despite the trickery which was undoubtedly discovered here and which had also been discovered, I may add, more than twenty years before she ever came to this country she yet possesses genuine, remarkable powers of a supernormal character, and this belief, I may say, is shared equally by all the continental investigators, who remain unaffected by the so-called American expose.
"Yes, many of them took place within a yard of her head; but some of them, and the most marvellous of them, not merely took place out of her reach, but under conditions of unexampled rigor. 'Eusapia's mediumistic limbs penetrated into the cabinet, says Bottazzi.
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