This observer says : —

" I divide, for brevity sake, all the phenomena into physical and meta'
physical, — a division which, if not strictly philosophical, will be suffi-
ciently understood by those who have been present at any so-called
sitting. My testimony, then, is this: — I have seen and felt ph3rsical
facts wholly and utterly inexplicable, as I believe, by any known and
generally received physical laws. I unhesitatingly reject the theory
which considers such &cts to be produced by means ^miliar to the
best professors of legerdemain. I have witnessed also many very sur^
prising and extraordinary metaphysical manifestations. But I cannot
Bay that any of those have been such as wholly to exclude the possibil-
ity of their being deceptive, and indeed, to use the honest word
required by the circumstances, fraudulent This is my testimony
reduced to its briefest possible expression.
