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messages given to induce a reconsideration. The intelligence 
is sometimes of such a character as to lead to the belief that 
it does not emanate from any person present. 
Several instances can be given to prove each of these 
statements, but the subject will be more fully discussed 
subsequently, when treating of the source of the intelligence. 
Crass. III. 
The Alteration of Weight of Bodies. 
I have repeated the experiments already described in this 
Journal, in different forms, and with several mediums. I 
need not further allude to them here. 
CLASS Ly. 
Movements of Heavy Substances when at a Distance from the 
Medium. 
The instances in which heavy bodies, such as tables, 
chairs, sofas, &c. have been moved, when the medium has 
not been touching them, are very numerous. _I will briefly 
mention a few of the most striking. My own chair has been 
twisted partly round, whilst my feet were off the floor. A 
chair was seen by all present to move slowly up to the table 
from a far corner, when all were watching it; on another 
occasion an arm chair moved to where we were sitting, and 
then moved slowly back again (a distance of about three 
feet) at my request. On three successive evenings a 
small table moved slowly across the room, under conditions 
which I had specially pre-arranged, so as to answer any 
objection which might be raised to the evidence. I have 
had several repetitions of the experiment considered by the 
Committee of the Diale¢tical Society to be conclusive, viz., 
the movement of a heavy table in full light, the chairs 
turned with their backs to the table, about a foot off, and 
each person kneeling on his chair, with hands resting over 
the backs of the chair, but not touching the table. On one 
occasion this took place when I was moving about so as to 
see how everyone was placed. 
CLASS VV; 
The Rising of Tables and Chairs off the Ground, without 
Contact with any Person. 
A remark is generally made when occurrences of this kind 
are mentioned, Why is it only tables and chairs which do 
these things? Why is this property peculiar to furniture? 
I might reply that I only observe and record facts, and do 
not profess to enter into the Why and Wherefore ; but indeed 
