Excerpt from Spiritualism: Its Facts and Phases, Illustrated With Personal Experiences

In this 19th century, wherein so many Mechanical and Scientific luminaries shine, I am aware that an attempt to urge an argument in favour of Supernaturalism will be met by a multitude of declamatory pooh - poohs! Nevertheless, I shall brave the storm of declamation, because I am fearless, holding by the Truth.

The experiences upon which my arguments and principles rest have most of them been personal. I have introduced only such incidents illustrating the subject as I have been able to gather from reliable sources. I have adopted this plan that I may avoid the censure of making a book, on what is generally considered to be an extravagant subject, by gleaning a number of well-selected ghost stories which have appeared in other books. I have chosen the more arduous, and I venture to add, praiseworthy mode of obtaining original facts by making personal acquaintanceship with the parties concerned, Thus, I have admitted no stories, as such, without discovering collateral evidence favouring their truth. I was well aware of the difficulties which I should meet in pursuing the task I had assigned myself, but knowing that no great truth was ever yet defended, without difficulties, like barricades, being placed in the vanguard, I went about my work with spirit, having a spiritual Truth to maintain.

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