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passing by, imagine his astonishment if he had looked up to see Dan turning round and round along the outside wall of the house,” he said.
    He nodded toward the group. “Thank you for not having moved,” he said.
    Lord Adare rose without a word and walked into the study.
    To his amazement, the window there was raised scarcely a foot.
    Returning to the sitting room, he told the group, then, looking at Home, asked, “How is that possible?”
    Home jumped to his feet. “Come and see,” he said. He raised one hand to stop the others. “Only Adare, if you please,” he said.
    Lord Adare accompanied the Scotsman to the study. It was dimly lit but the illumination from the sitting room and from the gas lamps in the street made everything completely visible.
    “Hold still,” Home said.
    He started leaning backward. Lord Adare twitched, about to make a move to catch the Scotsman, then froze as he saw that Home was not falling.
    In a moment, Home was lying on his back in the air, completely rigid.
    As Adare watched, open-mouthed, Home floated out through the opening, head first. For several moments, his body hovered in the air outside. Abruptly, then it floated back in, still horizontal.
    Home was raised up and assumed his footing on the floor. He smiled at Lord Adare, patting the shoulder of his still gaping friend.
    “Shall we return to the others?” he said.
AFTERWARD
    No valid charge of fraud was ever brought against Home.
    Hundreds of lawyers, scientists, physicians and journalists attended his séances.
    All were convinced that what they witnessed was genuine, defying any normal explanation.
    He produced solid, materialized hands in bright lamp light.
    He played accordions suspended from one hand by his thumb and middle finger with its keys at the lower end.
    He produced innumerable phenomena which defied the law of gravity.
    On one occasion, a beautiful white hand materialized by Home placed a garland of flowers on the head of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
    When he died at the age of fifty-three, the inscription on his headstone read:
To another discerning of Spirits
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    He never charged a penny for his séances.
GROWTH
    In addition to producing mediums as celebrities, Spiritualism now become a more respectable phenomenon as well.
    Serious inquiries into its validity were initiated in 1869 by the London Dialectical Society.
    In 1870, the Phantasmological Society at Oxford and The Ghost Society at Cambridge were created.
    In 1882, the formidable Society for Psychical Research was established.

    It is interesting to note two points about Spiritualism during this period.
    One: it was the first religion to endow dignity on the North American Indian because so many so-called Spirit Guides identified themselves as Indians.
    Two: psychical researchers received a serious—and sympathetic—hearing from many eminent scientists of the day.
    They have not attained such a level of scientific respectability since.

    Towards the end of the century, after D. D. Home was gone, the field of psychic phenomena required a new physical medium.
    Said medium—the last of her kind—appeared in the person of a stout Italian peasant woman born in 1854.

Eusapia Palladino
    December 9, 1909
New York, N.Y
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    S he held onto Carrington’s arm as they walked along the third floor of the Lincoln Square Arcade building. He was aware of her firm grip, of the subtly intimate way she pressed against his side.
    She was, perhaps, unaware of doing it, this seeking to establish a male-female relationship between them once again.
    Why did she always do that? Carrington wondered. Did she truly believe he would allow himself to be more lenient to her because of it? Surely, she knew, by now, that she was mistaken in that assumption.
    The footfalls of the group made irregular clacking noises on the hard tile floor, especially the heels of Carrington’s wife (how all the more presumptuous the medium was, clinging to his arm in the presence of his wife) and Mrs.