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There are at least a hundred recorded instances of Mr. 
Home’s rising from the ground, in the presence of as many 
separate persons, and I have heard from the lips of the three 
witnesses to the most striking occurrence of this kind—the 
Earl of Dunraven, Lord Lindsay, and Captain C. Wynne— 
their own most minute accounts of what took place. To re- 
ject the recorded evidence on this subject is to reject all human 
testimony whatever; for no fact in sacred or profane history 
is supported by a stronger array of proofs. 
The accumulated testimony establishing Mr. Home’s 
levitations is overwhelming. It is greatly to be desired 
that some person, whose evidence would be accepted as 
conclusive by the scientific world—if indeed there lives 
a person whose testimony im favour of such phenomena 
would be taken—would seriously and patiently examine 
these alleged facts. Most of the eye-witnesses to these 
levitations are now living, and would, doubtless, be willing 
to give their evidence. But, in a few years, such direct 
evidence will be difficult, if not impossible, to be obtained. 
Crass -VaL. 
Movement of Various Small Articles without Contact with any 
Person. 
Under this heading I propose to describe some special 
phenomena which I have witnessed. I can do little more 
here than allude to some of the more striking facts, all of 
which, be it remembered, have occurred under circum- 
stances that render trickery impossible. But it is idle to 
attribute these results to trickery, for I would again remind 
my readers that what I relate has not been accomplished at 
the house of a medium, but in my own house, where pre- 
parations have been quite impossible. A medium,walking into 
my dining-room, cannot, while seated in one part of the 
room with a number of persons keenly watching him, by 
trickery make an accordion play in my own hand when I hold 
it keys downwards, or cause the same accordion to float 
about the room playing all the time. He cannot introduce 
machinery which will wave window-curtains or pull up 
Venetian blinds 8 feet off, tie a knot in a handkerchief and 
place it ina far corner of the room, sound notes on a distant 
piano, cause a card-plate to float about the room, raise a 
water-bottle and tumbler from the table, make a coral neck- 
lace rise on end, cause a fan to move about and fan the 
company, or set in motion a pendulum when enclosed in a 
glass case firmly cemented to the wall. 
