Excerpt from Spiritualism: Its History, Phenomena and DoctrineHere it is necessary or desirable that I should indi cate my own position, in order that the reader may know how to discount my opinions. In debatable mat ters, we naturally want to know exactly where a writer stands, before we can decide how far to rely on what he says, for, though he may be perfectly honest, he may involuntarily be very unfair if he happens to have strong preferences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.