Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 3 by Shane McCorristine

Author:Shane McCorristine [McCorristine, Shane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781000561463
Google: e1BSEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24T02:49:10+00:00

WHAT MR. WALLACE DEEMS ‘RIGID CONDITIONS.’

The failure of each of the three claimants for the Burdin prize, as narrated in my second Lecture, is thus accounted-for by Mr. Wallace: / The reader might well doubt if offering a prize for reading under rigid conditions, was an adequate means of sifting a faculty so eminently variable, uncertain, and delicate as clairvoyance is admitted to be.’ Now what were these conditions? In the first case, Madlle. Emélie was not permitted to acquaint herself by ordinary vision with the contents of a book which she was to read with her occiput. In the second, Madlle. Pigeaire,24 whose eyes were covered by a black velvet bandage, was required to read a book held directly opposite her face, and was not permitted to hold it for herself in such a position that she could see it downwards beneath the bandage. And in the third, M. Teste’s25 clairvoyante was not allowed to open the box in which the test lines of print were inclosed! – From these examples it may be judged what are the tests which Mr. Wallace would consider adequate.

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