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brushed aside. Take a single incident of what Wallace
has truly called a modern miracle. I choose it because
it is the most incredible. I allude to the assertion
that D. D. Home--who, by the way, was not, as is
usually supposed, a paid adventurer, but was the nephew
of the Earl of Home--the assertion, I say, that he
floated out of one window and into another at the
height of seventy feet above the ground. I could not
believe it. And yet, when I knew that the fact was
attested by three eye-witnesses, who were Lord
Dunraven, Lord Lindsay, and Captain Wynne, all men of
honour and repute, who were willing afterwards to
take their oath upon it, I could not but admit that the
evidence for this was more direct than for any of those
far-off events which the whole world has agreed to
accept as true.

I still continued during these years to hold table
seances, which sometimes gave no results, sometimes
trivial ones, and sometimes rather surprising ones. I
have still the notes of these sittings, and I extract
here the results of one which were definite, and which
were so unlike any conceptions which I held of life
beyond the grave that they amused rather than edified
me at the time. I find now, however, that they agree
very closely, with the revelations in Raymond and in
other later accounts, so that I view them with
different eyes. I am aware that all these accounts of
life beyond the grave differ in detail--I suppose any
of our accounts of the present life would differ in
detail--but in the main there is a very great
resemblance, which in this instance was very far from
the conception either of myself or of either of the two
ladies who made up the circle. Two communicators sent
messages, the first of whom spelt out as a name
"Dorothy Postlethwaite," a name unknown to any of us.
She said she died at Melbourne five years before, at
the age of sixteen, that she was now happy, that she
had work to do, and that she had been at the same
school as one of the ladies. On my asking that lady to
raise her hands and give a succession of names, the
table tilted at the correct name of the head mistress
of the school. This seemed in the nature of a test.
She went on to say that the sphere she inhabited was
all round the earth; that she knew about the planets;
that Mars was inhabited by a race more advanced than
us, and that the canals were artificial; there was no
bodily pain in her sphere, but there could be mental
anxiety; they were governed; they took nourishment; she
had been a Catholic and was still a Catholic, but had