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WHO ARE THESE SPffiITUALISTS ?
The following ia a list of eminent persona, who, after careful
inveetigation, have fully satisfied themselves of the reality of
aome of the phenomena of modem Spiritualism :-
Archbishop Whately ; the late Lord Brougham ; the Earl of
Dunra ven ; the late Lord Lytl9n ; the late Mr. Serjeant Cox, President
-of the Psychological Society of Great Britain ; the late William
Howitt ; the late George Thompson ; the late Harriett Martineau ;
·Gerald Ma.ey; T. Adolphus Trollope ; S. C. Hall, F.S.A.
The late Abraham Lincoln, President U.S.A. ; the late W. Lloyd
·Garrlaon; the late Hon. R. Dale Owen, sometime Minister of U.S.A.
at the Court of Naples; the late Hon. J. W. :Edmunds, sometime
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; the late Professor
llapes, the eminent chemist, U.S.A.; the late Dr. Robert Hare,
Profeaeor of Chemistry at Harvard University, U.S.A.; Bishop
·Clarke, of Shooe Island, U.S.A. ; Darius Lyman, of Washington.
William Crookes, editor of the Quarterly Jqurnal of &ience,
Fellow, Gold Medallist, and Member of the Council of the Royal
Society; Cromwell Varley, F.R.(j., C.E.; A. R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., the
·eminent natnraliat, sometime President of the Biological Section of
the British Association for the Advancement of Science; W. F.
Barrett, Profeeaorof Physics in the Royal College of Science, Dublin ;
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., Profeaaor of Physics in the University of
Ounbridge ; the Earl of Crawford and Balcarrea, F.R.S., President of
the Royal Astronomical Society ; Dr.Lockhart Robert.eon, F.R.S., long
·one of the editors of the Jo1'rttal of ScUmcc; the late Dr. J . Elliot.eon,
F.R.S., sometime President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical
&ciety of London ; the late Professor de Morgan, President of the
Mathematical Society of London ; the late Dr. Wm. Gregory, F.R.S.E.,
Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh ; the late
Dr. Ashbnrner ; the late Dr. Robert Chambers, F.R.S.E. ; Profesaor,
-ch. Casaal, LL.D.; Captain R. F. Burton, the celebrated traveller.
The late Emperor of RUBBia; the late Emperor Napoleon; President
'Thiera ; the Hon. Alexandre Aksakof, RUBBian Imperial Councillor ;
the late Prince Emile de Sayn Wittgenstein ; His Imperial
Highneaa Nicholas, Duke of Leuchtenberg ; the late Baron L. de
-Guldenstllbbe ; Count A. de Gasparin ; the Baron and Baroness von
Vay ; the Baron du Potet ; Mons. Leon Favre, Consul-General of
Ftance.; Victor Hugo.
Professor Friedrich ZOllner, of Leipzig, the eminent physicist,
.author of "Scientific Treatises," "Transcendental Physics," kc.,
whoee recent reeea.rohes in this subject have attained a world:wide
fame ; Gustave T. Fechner, Professor of Physics in the University
-of Leipzig, also the author of many volumes bearing on the general
. subject of Psychology ; Professor Scheibner, the renowned teacher of
mathematics in the University of Leipzig; W. E. Weber, Professor
of Physics in the University of GOttingen, and known as one.of the
main work11r11 in connection with the doctrine of the Conservation
of Energy; Immanuel H. Fichte, Professor of Philosophy at Leipzig ;
Professors Wagner and Butlerolf, of the University of St. Petersburg
; Dr. Maximilian Perty, Professor of Natural Science in the
University of Berne ; Dr. Franz Hoffman, Professor of Philosophy,
Wnrzburg ; Dr. Robert Fri~, of Breslau ; Mons. Camille Flammarion,
the well-known astronomer ; and ma1tg other member.t of
kol"Mtl M>Cietia i7l thu and other eotmtrie1, and a t:ut 1'Umber of
per11nu emiiu·nt ill literatvre, 1cilne1', a1ul art, a11d itt tkd raft.V 1:f
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