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There is possibly a larger class of persons who hold that all suchcommunications, if genuine, come not from the dead but from the devil.This is the taught opinion of the Roman Catholic Church.A third class, far more numerous than both of these, is sure that anyone who holds either of these beliefs is a dupe of conjurers, or thevictim of his own disordered brain. This type of robust intellect has,during the last ten decades, affirmed that hypnotism, aviation inmachines heavier than air, telepathy, wireless telegraphy, and othernon-proved phenomena, are superstitious and unscientific balderdash. Inan earlier century it was equally certain that the earth did not goround the sun. It is, happily, never disconcerted by the frequency withwhich the superstitions and impossibilities of one generation become thescience of the next.The first part of this book may be accepted by the first of these threeclasses, the second by the second, and none of it by the third. Its aimis to state rather than solve the subject with which it deals, and tosuggest that the dead and the devil alike may be able to communicatewith the living.