THE DEATH-BLOW TO SPIRITUALISM:
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BEING THE TRUE STORY OF THE FOX SISTERS, AS REVEALED BY AUTHORITY OF MARGARET FOX KANE AND CATHERINE FOX JENCKEN.
BY REUBEN BRIGGS DAVENPORT.
NEW YORK: G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers. MDCCCXCVII.
Copyright, 1888. BY Reuben Briggs Davenport. [All Rights Reserved.]
TO MRS. HESTER S. DWINELLE.
“Alonso. This is as strange a maze as ere men trod, And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge. “Prospero. Sir, my liege, Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness of this business: at picked leisure, Which shall be shortly, single I’ll resolve you (Which to you shall seem probable) of every These happen’d accidents: till when be cheerful, And think of each thing well.—Come hither, spirit; Set Caliban and his companions free: Untie the spell.” Shakespeare.—The Tempest.