INDEX.

AMBERLEY, LORD, on spiritual phenomena and the character of
mediums, 140.

ANIMAL Magnetism, 59.

ANTIQUITY of Man, evidence of, long denied or ignored, 18.

APPARITIONS, evidence of the reality of, 69; date of a War Office cer-
tificate shown to be erroneous by, 72; at the "Old Kent Manor
House," 74.

ATKINSON, H. G., clairvoyant experiment with Adolphe Didier, 66.
AYMAR, JAQUES, discovery of a murderer by, 57.

BARING GOULD, on Jaques Aymar, 57, 59.

BEALINGS Bells, 211.

BEATTIE, MR. JOHN, his experiments in spirit photography, 193.

BRAY, CHARLES, testimony to clairvoyance, 105; his theory of a
"thought atmosphere" unintelligible, 106.

BREWSTER, SIR DAVID, his account of his sitting with Mr. Home, 159.
BURTON, Captain, testimony as to the Davenport Brothers, 98.

CARPENTER, Dr., misstatement by, 31; criticism on Mr. Rutter, 56;
omission of facts opposed to his views in his "Mental Physiology,"
68; criticism on, 224; "unconscious cerebration" misapplied, 226.
CHALLIS, Professor, on the conclusiveness of the testimony, 98.
CHAMBERS, Dr. ROBERT, experiment by, 156; extract from letter of,
180 (note).

CLAIRVOYANCE, tests of, 60, 61.

CLARK, Dr. T. EDWARDS, on a medical case of clairvoyance, 67.
CONVERTS from the ranks of Spiritualism never made, 177.

COOK, Miss FLORENCE, tested by Mr. Varley and Mr. Crookes (in note),

181.

Cox, Sergeant, on trance speaking, 201.

CRITICISM On the "Fortnightly" article replied to, 228.

CROOKES, Mr., his investigation of the phenomena, 175; on materia-
lisations through Miss Cook, 182 (note); his treatment by the
press, 203; by the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 226.

DECLINE of belief in the supernatural due to a natural law, 22 (note).
DE MORGAN, Professor, on spiritual phenomena, 81.

DEITY, the popular and spiritualistic notions of compared, 116.
DIALECTICAL Committee, investigation by, 178.

DISTURBANCES, unexplained, before rise of modern spiritualism, 211,
DIVINING rod, 56.

DUNPHY, Mr., versus Lord Amberley, 141.

EDINRURGH REVIEW's criticism on Young, 17.

EDMONDS, Judge, investigation by, 86.

EDMONDS, Judge, his character, 166; his mode of investigation, 166-169;
his daughter speaking in languages unknown to her, 169.

ELLIOTSON, Dr., a convert to spiritualism, 97.

EXPERIMENTS and tests by the author, 119, 125, 128, 130, 135.

FIRE test, 159.

FLAMMARION M. CAMILLE, evidence of, 179.

FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW on the disturbances at the residence of the Wesley
family, 78.

Fox, MISS KATE, the earliest medium, 146; tested by committees, 148;
by Dr. Robert Chambers and Mr. R. D. Owen, 156; séances with
Mr. Livermore, 157.

FUTURE life, proof of the great use of modern spiritualism, 212; the
spiritual theory of, not a product of the medium's own mind, 218.

GLANVIL, character of, 23; extracts from, 24.

GREGORY, Dr. WILLIAM, on clairvoyance, 60; criticism of, 62.
GULLY, Dr., on the Cornhill article and Mr. Home, 92.

GUPPY, Mrs., her career as a medium, 162; production of flowers, 164.

HADDOCK, Dr. JOSEPH, account of discovery of stolen property by a
clairvoyant, 64.

HALL, S. C., his conversion from scepticism, 94; undergoes the fire
test, 159.

HARDINGE, Mrs. EMMA, quotations from her addresses, 110, 112.
HARE, Professor ROBERT, experiments and tests by, 88.

HISTORICAL teachings of spiritualism, 205.

HOME, Mr. DANIEL D., experience of Sir David Brewster with, 158; the
fire test, 159; experience of Sergeant Cox with, 161; exposed to
twenty years of scrutiny, 162.

HOUDIN, ROBERT, opinion of Alexis the clairvoyant, 65, 66.

HOWITT, WILLIAM, testimony as to an accordion suspended in the air,
93.

Hume, David, on miracles, 3; definition of a miracle, 4; arguments
against miracles, 5, 12; self-contradictions, 8.

HUXLEY, Professor, on the uninteresting nature of the phenomena, 214.

ILLUSTRATIVE extracts, 229.

IMAGINATION, effects of, 39.

INVISIBLE intelligent beings, existence of around us not impossible, 41;
their action on matter not an "invasion of the law of nature," 46.

KERR, Rev. WILLIAM, M.A., testimony to phenomena occurring in
private, 95.

LAW of continuity applicable to spiritualism, 101.

LEOKY, assertions about miracles, 20; fallacies in his arguments, 21;
account of Glanvil, 23.

LEE, Dr. EDWIN, on experiments with Alexis Didier, the clairvoyant, 65.
LYNDHURST, Lord Chancellor, belief in the spiritual phenomena, 96.
LEVITATION, examples of, 7.

LEWES, Mr. G. H., views of as to identical hallucinations criticised, 196
(note).

MAPES, Professor, inquiries into spiritualism, 149.

MAYO, Dr. HERBERT, F.R.S., on clairvoyance, 62; on phreno-mes-
merism, 63.

MEDICAL MEN, evidence of, for facts deemed incredible, 19.

MENTAL PHENOMENA, summary of, 200.

MESMERISM, personal experiences of, 119; supposed to explain spiri-
tualism, 123.

MIRACLE, definitions of, 4, 35, 36; at tomb of Abbé Paris, 8; modern
objections to, 13.

MONTGERON, evidence of miracles at tomb of Abbé Paris, 11.

MORAL teachings of spiritualism, 108, 213.

MUSICAL phenomenon with Miss Nichol, 163.

MULLER, GEORGE, account of his life and dependence on prayer, 209.

ORACLES not all impostures, 206.

OWEN, ROBERT DALE, on supernatural phenomena occurring unsought
for, 70; case of apparition seen by two persons at once, 70; date
of a War Office certificate shown to be erroneous by means of an
apparition, 72; judicial record of disturbances at Cideville, 77;
testimony as to spirit forms, 184 (note).

PERSONAL evidence, 119; first experiences in table-turning, 125; with
Mrs. Marshall, 128.

PHOTOGRAPHS, a conclusive test, 185; conditions of a satisfactory test,
186; Mrs. Guppy's remarkable spirit photograph, 187; likenesses
recognised by Mr. Howitt, 189; by Dr. Thomson, 189; by the
author, 190 (note); Mr. Slater's experiments, 190; Dr. R. Williams'
experiments, 193; Mr. John Beattie's experiments, 193.

PHYSICAL phenomena, summary of, 199.

PRACTICAL Utility of spiritualism, objections replied to, 227.
PRAYER, efficacy of, 209.

QUARTERLY REVIEW on spiritualism, 143.

REICHENBACH, Baron, his observations on magnets and crystals, 52,
55; his witnesses, 53; review of his work, 54.

ROBERTSON, Dr. J. LOCKHART, tests the phenomena and accepts them

as facts, 155.

RUTTER on the magnetoscope, 55.

SCEPTICS, investigations by, 166.

SCIENTIFIC MEN, denial of facts by, 17.

SCIENTIFIC MEN, their mode of dealing with the subject, 145; refusal to
investigate, 224.

SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM, on mesmerism, and his belief in spiritual

phenomena, 94.

SEXTON, Dr. GEORGE, his mode of conversion, 170-173.

SLATER, Mr. THOMAS, his experiments in spirit photography, 190.
SPIRITUALISM, periodicals devoted to, 48.

SPIRITUALISM, the theory of, 100.

SPIRITUALISM, New Quarterly Magazine on, 142; Quarterly Review on
143; historical sketch of, 146; phenomena of, 149; nature of the
belief in, 153; no recantations in, 154; a science of human nature,
221.

STONE-THROWING, remarkable case of, in Paris, 230.

SUPERNATURAL phenomena so-called, works relating to, 32; authors who
vouch for the facts, 33.

SUSPICION, action of, illustrated, 229.
SYMPATHY of feeling, 121.

THACKERAY on phenomena witnessed in New York, 96.

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TRIVIALITY of the phenomena, often apparent rather than real, 103.
TROLLOPE, T. ADOLPHUS, evidence of, 91; as to the possibility of its
being conjuring, 161; as to the production of flowers, 165.
TYLOR, Mr. E. B., on miracles as a survival of savage thought," 26;
his mesmeric theory of spiritual phenomena answered, 123.
TYNDALL, Professor, definition of a miracle by, 35; on spiritualism,
144; reply to, by Mr. Patrick Fraser Alexander, 145; declines to
investigate, 224.

USES of spiritualism, 117.

WHATELY, Archbishop, an inquirer into spiritualism, 97.

WILBRAHAM, the Hon. Colonel, testimony to the genuineness of the
phenomena occurring with Mr. Home, 93.

WILLIAMS, Dr. R., his experiments in spirit photography, 193.

WITCHCRAFT, evidence for, 26; phenomena analogous to those of modern
spiritualism, 208 (note).