Fact and fancy in spiritualism, theosophy, and psychical research

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FACT AND FANCY

IN

SPIRITUALISM, THEOSOPHY

Dedication

TO THE REVERED MEMORY OF

MY WIFE,

WHOSE PURE AND UNSELFISH LIFE WAS,

Preface

The request of numerous friends that I publish, in a collected and permanent form, a series of lectures delivered before the Ohio Liberal Society of Cincinnati, is my apology for placing this little volume before the public. Not having been originally intended for publication, the treatment of the subjects therein discussed is somewhat desultory, and lacking in continuity of thought and unity of design.

The occasional repetition noticeable in some of the lectures, of matter contained in another of the series, is due to the same cause.

Very little pretension, if any, is made to originality, unless it be in the selection and arrangement of the matter, and in the literary form in which it is cast. The frequent use of the first person, as well as the somewhat rhetorical style employed, resulted from the necessity of adapting my thoughts and utterances to delivery from the rostrum.

Preface.

Throughout I have endeavored to be fair

and temperate ; but, believing fully in freedom

of thought and speech, I have not hesitated to

freely express my convictions, holding with

Macaulay, that " the battles of Truth should

not be fought with the weapons of error,"

and that in the conflict with error, Truth need

have no cause to fear her final triumph if

she be given a fair chance.

G. G. H.

Cincinnati, April 14, 1901.

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