The Clock Struck Three; Being a Review of Clock Struck One, and Reply to It. Part 2. Showing the Harmony Between Christianity, Science, and Spoiritualism (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIH. Spiritualism from a Scientific Standpoint--Heport of the Committee to the London Dialectical Society. At a meeting of the "London Dialectical Society," held on the sixth of January, 1869, it was resolved, "That the council be requested to appoint a committee in conformity with the by-law, seven to investigate the phenomena alleged to be spiritual manifestations, and to report thereon." The committee consisted of twenty-eight of its members. Professor Huxley and other scientific gentlemen were invited to meet with them. At a subsequent meeting, eight other learned gentlemen were added to the committee. This committee appointed six experimental sub-committees. The following is a synopsis of the report of the original committee. They held fifteen meetings, and received evidence from thirty-three persons, who described phenomena which, they stated, had occurred within their own personal experience. They received written statements from thirty-one persons. They invited the attendance, and requested the co-operation and advice of scientific men, who had publicly expressed opinions favorable or REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 237 adverse to the genuineness of the phenomena; "As it appeared to your committee to be of the greatest importance that they should investigate the phenomena in question by personal experiment and test, they resolved themselves into subcommittees as the best means of doing so. "Six sub-committees were accordingly formed. All of these have sent in reports, from which it appears that a large majority of the members of your committee have become actual witnesses to several phases of the phenomena, without the aid or presence of any professional medium; although the greater part of them commenced their investigations in an avowedly skepti...