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that in the four cases of materialization now recorded, with 

 four different mediums, four different kinds of tests were 

 obtained without any interference with the conditions needed 

 for the production of the phenomena. In the first, with Miss 

 Cook, the figure was positively distinguished by unpierced 

 ears, while the circumstances were such that the medium 

 could not possibly have resumed her dress and concealed the 

 robes of the figure in the few seconds only that sometimes 

 elapsed between its disappearance and the examination of the 

 medium. With Mr. Haxby, the measurements both of body 

 and foot were so different as to prevent any possibility of 

 personation by the medium. With Mr. Eglinton, the im- 

 promptu and thorough search after the seance rendered per- 

 sonation equally impossible ; while, in the last case, in which 

 the whole process of the formation of a shrouded figure was 

 seen in full daylight, absolutely precluded any normal mode of 

 production of what we saw. I may mention that Mr. Wedg- 

 wood assured me that in the course of their long investigation 

 they had had far more wonderful results. In some cases, in- 

 stead of a shrouded and somewhat shadowy female figure, a 

 tall robed male figure was produced, while Mr. Monk was in 

 a deep trance, and in full view. 



This figure would remain with them for half an hour or 

 more, would touch them, and allow of close examination of his 

 body and clothing, and was so thoroughly, though temporarily 

 material, that it could exert considerable force, sometimes even 

 lifting a chair on which one of them was seated, and thus 

 carrying him around the room. 



Now, however, that the whole series of similar phenomena 

 have been co-ordinated, and to some extent rendered intel- 

 ligible, by Myers's great work on " Human Personality," it is to 

 be hoped that even students of physical science will no longer 

 class all those who have either witnessed such phenomena or 

 express their belief in them, as insane or idiotically credulous, 

 without even attempting to show how, under the same condi- 

 tions, such effects can be produced. 



Before leaving the subject of my experiences of spiritualism 



