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Updated: June 28, 2025
M. Littre, on the strength of his historical sketch, decides, most correctly, that there is rien de nouveau, nothing new, in the spirit-rapping epidemic. 'These maladies never desert our race. But this fact hardly explains why 'vessels were dragged from the hands' of his nuns in the sixteenth century. In search of a cause, he turns to hallucinations.
It was pernicious in the middle age, and clairvoyance and spirit-rapping would be great evils to the world, if it were not that the spirits, even of-the ablest men, in losing their bodies seem to lose their wits.
He was only a year younger than I; we were both born in Jedburgh, and both were influenced by the superstitions of our age and country in a similar manner, for he confessed that, although he did not believe in ghosts, he was eerie when sitting up to a late hour in a lone house that was haunted. This is a totally different thing from believing in spirit-rapping, which I scorn.
'One would think you had been frightened by the family ghost, Ida said laughingly, 'you so studiously avoid talking about the Abbey. 'I have not been frightened by the ghost I am too modern to believe in ghosts. 'Oh, but it is modern to believe in everything impossible spirit-rapping, thought-reading.
Now I know something of Lowell and of Emerson, but I hold that those lines on Dante's bust are amongst the finest ever written in the language, whether by American or Englishman; don't you? And what a grand Dead March is the poem on Webster! ...Also Mrs. Browning believes in spirit-rapping stories, all, and tells me that Robert Owen has been converted by them to a belief in a future state.
He also went in for spirit-rapping, greatly to the disgust of the two ancient housekeepers, who declared that they'd have "no dalins wid him and his divil's worruk." The bricklayer was from the first an object of awe to Malachi, who carefully avoided him; but one night we got the butt into a room where the artisan was entertaining the boys with a seance.
For she was always doing sweet, ignorant, childish, impractical things. " spirit-rapping is it? or palmistry? or magnetic healing? or what?" "You'll laugh!" "Tell me!" "She's got a beau." "What? a beau? and she eighty if a day!" "Yes, we all her children think it's absurd. And we're all trying to advise her against it ... but she vows she's going to get married to him anyhow."
And there he found all the wise people instructing mankind in the science of spirit-rapping, while their house was burning over their heads: and when Tom told them of the fire, they held an indignation meeting forthwith, and unanimously determined to hang Tom's dog for coming into their country with gunpowder in his mouth.
These articles deal with many other topics: with the legal questions in which he is always interested, such as 'the morality of advocacy' and with the theory of evidence, with various popular commonplaces about moral and social problems, with the 'spirit-rapping' then popular, with various speculations about history, and with some of the books in which he was always interested.
"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.
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