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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.
'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."
"Apparently he would have us believe that materialization is a process due to the medium or at least dependent on her will and that these partially completed forms represent fragmentary impulses. But I'm not so much concerned just now with that as with the course of schooling through which he drove Eusapia. He stuck to his plan.
"He's the head of the Physiological Institute of the University of Naples; of his age and general character I am not precisely informed, but he writes delightfully of his experiments. Morselli, who preceded him in his study of Eusapia, is the Professor of Psychology in the University of Genoa. Fo
He was determined upon educating 'John King, and kept insisting that the invisible hands press the rubber ball, or lower the registry balance, or set the metronome going, and Eusapia repeatedly moaned: 'I can't find, 'I can't see, or 'I don't know how. Once she complained that the objects were too far off that she could not reach them! all of which sustained Bottazzi in his belief that these activities were absolutely under her psychic control, just as the synchronism of movements convinced him that she was 'the physiologic factor in the case. All of this is very exciting to me, for I have had the same feeling with regard to the several mediums whose activities I have closely studied.
"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.
Bottazzi says, with regard to the results of the first two sittings: 'These first séances show that Eusapia needed to learn how to make these movements with which her invisible hands were unfamiliar, just as she would have had to learn to make them with her visible hands.
The coil and the switch had been dragged out of the cabinet and thrown on the table. Bottazzi begged them all not to touch it. No one but Scarpa, Galeotti, and Bottazzi knew what it was for. 'At a certain moment Eusapia took hold of the first finger of my right hand and squeezed it with her fingers.
'In this way, adds the master, 'Eusapia's irritation was softened; she rebelled no further, but yielded with docility to the sharp, attentive scrutiny of the observer, who finally declared himself beaten, not having been able to discover at any point a shadow of fraud." "Hurrah for Eusapia!" shouted Howard. "She must be a wonder!"
Morton believed that his chief was taking the opposing side out of perversity and replied: "I admit that as you read, they seem reasonable, and I also admit that the experiments with Eusapia, especially the recent ones, ought to be conclusive to my mind, but they are not. That is the singular thing they do not convince." "That is because we do not clear our minds of prejudice.
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