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it will be obvious that if a heavy inanimate body in an 
ordinary dining-room has to rise off the floor, it cannot very 
well be anything else but a table or achair. That this pro- 
pensity is not specially attached to furniture, I have abundant 
evidence ; but, like other experimental demonstrators, the 
intelligence or power, whatever it may be, which produces 
these phenomena can only work with the materials which 
are available. 
On five separate occasions, a heavy dining-table rose 
between a few inches and 14 feet off the floor, under special 
circumstances, which rendered trickery impossible. On 
another occasion, a heavy table rose from the floor in full 
light, while I was holding the medium’s hands and feet. On 
another occasion the table rose from the floor, not only when 
no person was touching it, but under conditions which I had 
pre-arranged so as to assure unquestionable proof of the 
fact. 
Cxiass VI. 
The Levitation of Human Beings. 
This has occurred in my presence on four occasions in 
darkness. ‘The test conditions under which they took place 
were quite satisfactory, so far as the judgment was con- 
cerned ; but ocular demonstration of such a fact is so 
necessary to disturb our pre-formed opinions as to “‘ the 
naturally possible and impossible,” that I will here only 
mention cases in which the deductions of reason were con- 
firmed by the sense of sight. 
On one occasion I witnessed a chair, with a lady sitting 
on it, rise several inches from the ground. On another 
occasion, to avoid the suspicion of this being in some way 
performed by herself, the lady knelt on the chair in such 
manner that its four feet were visible to us. It then rose 
about three inches, remained suspended for about ten 
seconds, and then slowly descended. At another time two 
children, on separate occasions, rose from the floor with their 
chairs, in full daylight, under (to me) most satisfactory con- 
ditions ; for I was kneeling and keeping close watch upon the 
feet of the chair, and observing that no one might touch them. 
The most striking cases of levitation which I have 
witnessed have been with Mr. Home. On three separate 
occasions have I seen him raised completely from the floor 
of the room. Once sitting in an easy chair, once kneeling 
on his chair, and once standingup. On each occasion I had 
pull opportunity of watching the occurrence as it was taking 
place. 
