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Spiritism and common sense

CONTENTS ANALYTIC INDEX CHAPTER I The World Wonts to be Deceived Man likes to be mystified. — Credulity of people no exaggeration. — Gabriel Joand. — Leo Taxil, and his collaborators. — His mystification. — He has taught Catholics a lesson. — When we are at war we are prone to blame the enemy for everything. — The evil spirits are not our only enemies. — God uses secondary causes. — So the devil, the "Ape of God." — Because certain phenomena are inexplicable, it does not follow that Satan is personally to blame 1-7 CHAPTER II The Origin of Spiritism The belief that the souls of the dead communicate with us, as old as man. — Spiritism, scientifically speaking, is an hypothesis. — As a religion, it first made its appearance in 1848. — Mrs. Fox. — Her experiences. — Margaret and Catharine. — Beginning of their career. — The death-blow to Spiritualism. — Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane and Mrs. Catha- rine Fox Jencken; their denunciation. — The "New York World." — The real origin of the "raps" 8-15 CHAPTER III The Psychology of the Observer Spiritism claims it has science to back it up. — Men of science and real scientific men. — Prof. Hyslop ; his tremendous reasoning about Galileo and Coperni

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