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32GADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCETlmS; I have frequently kno^Yn mental questions answered—that is, questionsmerely framed in the mind of the interrogator^ and not revealed byhim or known to others. Preparatory to meeting a circle, I have sat downalone in my room, and carefully prepared a scries of questions to be propounded;and I have been surprised to find my questions answered, andwrote them, without my even taking myin the precise order in which Imemorandum out of my pocket, and when I knew that no person presentknew that I had prepared questions, much less what they were.1632. ^'My most secret thoughts—those which I never uttered tomortal man or woman—have been freely spoken, as if I had uttered them.1633. '' I have known Latin, French, and Spanish words spelled outthrough the rappings ;and I have heard mediums, who knew no languagebut their own, speak in those languages, and in Italian, German, andGreek, and in other languages unknown to me, but which were representedto be Arabic, Chinese, and Indian, and all done with the ease andrapidity of a native.1634. '^I have seen a person who knew nothing of music, except alittle that he had learned at a country singing-school, go to thepiano andplay in perfect keeping, as to time and concord, the several parts of anoverture to an opera.1635. '^ When I was absent last winter, in Central America, my friendsin town heard of my whereabouts, and of the state of my health, seventimes ]and, on my return, by comparing their information with the entriesin my journal, it was found to be invariably correct.1636. ^' I went into the investigation, originally thinking it a deception,and intending to make public my exposure of it. Having, from my researches,come to a different conclusion, I feel that the obligation to makeknown the result is just as strong. Therefore it is, mainly, that I give^^J. W. Edmonds."the result to the world.Testimony of Henry LloydGarrison.1637. Mr. Garrison is spoken of as a man of unimpeachable veracityand independent mind.His testimony will have weight with one class ofinquirers, if not with another. The following is from the ^^ Liberator" ofMarch 3, 1854.1638. ^'We are often privately asked, what we think of the ^SpiritualManifestations,' so called, and whether we have had any opportunities toinvestigatethem.1639. '' When we first heard of the ^Rochester knockings,' we supposed(not personally knowing the persons implicated) that there might be somecollusion in that particular case, or, if not, that the phenomena would erelong elicit a satisfactory solution, independent of all spiritual agency. Asthe manifestations have spread from house to house, from city to city, fromone part of the country to the other, across the Atlantic into Europe, till