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obtained positive knowledge of a great variety of facts equally 

 strange, this is only the culminating point of a long series of 

 phenomena, all antecedently incredible to the people who talk 

 so confidently of the laws of nature. I will here just remark 

 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 stance rendered 

 personation equally impossible ; while 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. Wedgwood assured me that in the course of their long 

 investigation they had had far more wonderful results. In 

 some cases, instead 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 Myer'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 ere dulous, 



