 | London Dialectical Society - 1871 - 440 pages
...opportunity of examining into for myself, was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If any body would endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the... | |
 | London Dialectical Society - 1873 - 370 pages
...opportunity of examining into for myself, was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If any body would endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1874 - 86 pages
...in a letter to the Committee of tho Dialectical Society. Ho says, "But supposing the phenomena to bo genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody would...faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and cu- • rates at tho nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 428 pages
...opportunity of examining into for myself, was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. " A.nd if... | |
 | Marie Sinclair Countess of Caithness - 1876 - 508 pages
...Huxley says in a letter to the Dialectical Society : " But supposing the phenomena of Spiritualism to be genuine, they do not interest me. If anybody...decline the privilege having better things to do." If Professor Huxley could see, the vast importance of Spiritualism towards the elucidation of " those... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1876 - 246 pages
...Professor TH Huxley, as late as 1869, wrote a letter to the Dialectical Society, in which he says : "Supposing the phenomena to be genuine, they do not interest me." If learned professors, in the full blaze of the science of the iatter half of the nineteenth century can... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 pages
...Appendix N. claims of " Spiritualism," in the following characteristic language — " If anybody could endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and -curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do." * In one... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1894 - 410 pages
...interest in the subject. He had once examined a case of ' spiritualism,' and detected an imposture. ' But, supposing the phenomena to be genuine, they do not...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do.' Thus it... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1895 - 344 pages
...opportunity of examining into for myself was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. " And if... | |
 | 1910 - 740 pages
...point made by the late Professor Huxley, who said he took no interest in the subject. He adds : — " If anybody would endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest provincial town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. And if... | |
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But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody would endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things... 
