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and I call the reader's attention to the complete- 

 ness of the test here, and its demonstration of 

 the reality of clairvoyance, as compared with the 

 loose experiment and hasty jumping-to-a-conclu- 

 sion in the case which Dr. Carpenter thinks alone 

 worthy of record. 



Dr. Carpenter next comes to the work of 

 Prof. Gregory (" Letters on Animal Magnetism"), 

 and devotes several pages to assertions as to the 

 professor's " credulity," the " reprehensible fa- 

 cility " with which he accepted Major Buckley's 

 statements, the " entire absence of detail" as to 

 "precautions against tricks," and his utter fail- 

 ure to find a clairvoyant to obtain Sir James 

 Simpson's bank-note. " And yet," he says, re- 

 ferring especially to myself, " there are even 

 now men of high scientific distinction who ad- 

 duce Trof. Gregory's testimony on this subject 

 as unimpeachable ! " Readers who have accom- 

 panied me so far, will at least hesitate to accept 

 Dr. Carpenter's dictum on this point, till they 

 have heard what can be said on the other side. 

 To give full details would occupy far too much 

 space ; I must, therefore, refer my readers to 

 Prof. Gregory's book for some cases, and give 

 merely a brief outline of others. At page 394 

 (Case 29) is given in detail a most remarkable 

 test-case, in which Prof. Gregory sent some hand- 

 writing from Edinburgh to Dr. Haddock's clair- 

 voyant at Bolton, who gave in return a minute 

 description of the writer, her appearance, dress, 

 house, illness, medical treatment, etc. At page 

 401 another test of the same kind is described. At 

 page 403 a number of such cases are summarized, 

 and one very completely given in detail. At page 

 423 is an account of a clairvoyant boy at the 

 house of Dr. Schmitz, rector of the High School 

 at Edinburgh. This boy described Prof. Greg- 

 ory's house accurately, and the persons at that 

 time in the dining-room (afterward ascertained 

 to be correct). As a further test, Dr. Schmitz 

 was asked to go into another room with his son 

 and do anything he liked. The boy tlien de- 

 scribed their motions, their jumping about, the 

 son going out and coming in again, and the doc- 

 tor beating his son with a roll of paper. When 

 Dr. Schmitz returned, Prof. Gregory repeated all 

 the boy bad said, which the doctor, much as- 

 tonished, declared to be correct in every particu- 

 lar. At page 445 (Case 42) is an account of 

 another clairvoyant, a mechanic, who described 

 Prof. Gregory's house in detail, and saw a lady 

 sitting in a particular chair in the drawing-room 

 reading a .new book. On returning home the 

 professor found that Mrs. Gregory had, at the 



time, been sitting in that particular chair, which 

 she hardly ever was accustomed to use, and was 

 reading a new book which had been sent to her 

 just before, but oft. which the professor knew 

 nothing. At page 405 is a most remarkable case 

 of the recovery of a stolen watch, and detection 

 of the thief in London by Dr. Haddock's clair- 

 voyant at Bolton. The letters all passed through 

 Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, who showed them to 

 Prof. Gregory. At page 407 are the particulars 

 of the extraordinary discovery of the locality of 

 travelers by means of their handwriting only, 

 sent from the Royal Geographical Society to Sir 

 C. Trevelyan in Edinburgh, and by him to Bol- 

 ton, he himself not knowing either the names of 

 the travelers, or where they were. Many more 

 cases might be referred to, but these are sufficient 

 to show that there is not that " total absence of 

 detail," and of " precautions," in Prof. Gregory's 

 experiments, which is Dr. Carpenter's reason for 

 entirely ignoring them. In addition to this we 

 have the account of Dr. J. Haddock, a physician 

 practising at Bolton, of the girl Emma, who for 

 nearly two years was under his care, and resid- 

 ing in his house. Many of Prof. Gregory's ex- 

 periments, and those of Sir Walter Trevelyan, 

 were made through this girl, and a full account 

 of her wonderful clairvoyant powers is given by 

 Dr. Haddock in the appendix to his " Somnolysm 

 and Psycheism." She could not read, and did 

 not even know her letters. The discovery of the 

 stolen cash-box and identification of the entirely 

 unsuspected thief are given in full by Dr. Had- 

 dock, and are summarized in my " Miracles and 

 Modern Science," page 64. Again, Dr. Herbert 

 Mayo gives unexceptionable personal testimony 

 to clairvoyance at pages 16*7, 172, and 178, of 

 his book on " Popular Superstitions." 



Dr. Carpenter is very severe on Prof. Gregory 

 for his belief in Major Buckley's clairvoyants 

 reading mottoes in nuts, etc., but Major Buckley 

 was a man of fortune and good position, who 

 exercised his remarkable powers as a magnetizer 

 for the interest of it, and there is not the slight- 

 est grounds for suggesting his untrustworthiness. 

 We have beside the confirmatory testimony of 

 other persons, among them of Dr. Ashburner, 

 who frequently took nuts purchased by himself, 

 and had them correctly read by the clairvoyants 

 before they were opened. (" Ashburner's Phi- 

 losophy of Animal Magnetism," p. 304.) Dr. 

 Carpenter also doubts Prof. Gregory's common- 

 sense in believing that a sealed letter had been 

 read unopened by a clairvoyant when it might 

 have been opened and resealed ; but he omits to ■ 



