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ceedings, part xxvi, pp. 14, 15). With this may be 

 compared a Mohammedan receipt for summoning 

 spirits given in Klunzinger's Upper Egypt (p. 386): 

 " Fast seven days in a lonely place, and take incense 

 with you. Read a chapter 1001 times from the 

 Koran. That is the secret, and you will see inde- 

 scribable wonders; drums will be beaten beside you, 

 and flags hoisted over your head, and you will see 

 spirits." Thus have the dreamy Oriental Moslem 

 and the self-hypnotized Western professor met to- 

 gether to elicit truth from trance. 



Concerning the competence of Mr. Wallace him- 

 self to weigh, unbiassed, the evidence which comes 

 before him, it suffices to cite the case of Eusapia 

 Paladino, a Neapolitan " medium," who, in the words 

 of one of her most ardent dupes, became " the un- 

 expected instrument of driving conviction as to the 

 reality of psychical manifestations by the invisible 

 into the minds of many scientists." A number of 

 distinguished savants testified to the genuineness of 

 the woman's performances in Professor Richet's cot- 

 tage on the He Roubant in the autumn of 1893. It 

 was the serious and complete conviction of all of 

 them (Lodge, Richet, Ochorowicz, and others) that 

 " on no single occasion during the occurrence of an 

 event recorded by them was a hand of Eusapia's free 

 to execute any trick whatever." Mr. Maskelyne, such 

 testimony notwithstanding, declared that the whole 

 business was " the sorriest of trickeries," and, to the 

 credit of the Society for Psychical Research, it under- 



