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certain effects, conclusions which are opposed to reason, — 

 especially when a reasonable explanation can be given of those 

 effects, and a reasonable cause of them assigned. 



The safest rule for our guidance, with respect to matters 

 which aj^pear to be mysterious and unaccoimtable, is to believe 

 what is beyond our reason only upon reasonable testimony, and 

 to reject at once what is evidently contrary to reason. Acting 

 upon this rule I have been led to make such an investigation 

 of the subject of table-moving as to warrant conclusions which 

 seem reasonable to myself, and which will, I trust, appear 

 satisfactory to others, at least to those who bring to the 

 consideration of the subject minds free from prejudice or 

 -superstition. 



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