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174 MODERN SPIRITISM
lective, " he would have represented my theory),
"but," he continues, "/ found the facts completely
shattered my theory.
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In many cases all preconceived theories of fraud,
and illusions, and mal-observation must be abandoned,"
Well! Be it so. Still, "collective hypnotism"
accounts for much. I have never thought it accounted
for all. I have always held that when
science and scepticism have done their best to destroy
the credibility of the facts (not the theories) of
Spiritism, there remains an indestructible residuum
which is the work (so far as we at present know)
of non-human agencies; and which, personally, I
believe to be spirits of another world, but certainly
not disembodied spirits of the dead.