Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling andpunctuation remains unchanged.
There is no anchor for footnote 5 on page 35 (containing paras 122,123and 124), so the anchor has been placed at the end of para 122.
Vail has been corrected to veil throughout.
The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the publicdomain.
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
OF THE
SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS,
DEMONSTRATING
THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS AND THEIR COMMUNIONWITH MORTALS.
DOCTRINE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD RESPECTING HEAVEN, HELL,MORALITY, AND GOD.
ALSO,
Influence of Scripture on the Morals of Christians.
BY
ROBERT HARE, M.D.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, GRADUATE OF YALE COLLEGEAND HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ASSOCIATE OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, ANDMEMBER OF VARIOUS LEARNED SOCIETIES.
Verba animi proferre, vitam impendere vero.
Denounce dark Error and bright Truth proclaim,Though ghastly Death oppose, with threat’ning aim.
NEW YORK:
PARTRIDGE & BRITTAN, 342 BROADWAY.
1855.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
MARGARET B. GOURLAY,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.
PLATE I.
Engraving and description of the apparatus, which, being contrived for the purpose ofdetermining whether the manifestations attributed to spirits could be made without mortalaid, by deciding the question affirmatively, led to the author’s conversion.
(a) PLATE I. Fig. 1, is an engraving from a photograph of the apparatus above alluded to. Thedisk A is represented as supported upon a rod of iron forming the axis on which it turns. To theouter end of this rod, the index B is affixed, so as to be stationary in a vertical position; the uppertermination situated just in front of the letters. These are placed around the margin of the disk.The cord C encircles the pulley situated about the centre of the disk, like a hub to a carriage wheel.The ends of the cord are severally tied to weights, which, when the table is tilted, react against eachother through the pulley; one being so large as to be immovable, the other so small as to be lifted.Of course a hook in the floor may be substituted for the larger weight.
PEASE’S APPARATUS.
(b) The relative position of the medium, and that of the screen intercepting her view of the disk,are too conspicuous to require particularization.
Fig. 2, represents Pease’s disk, or dial apparatus, associated with a vibrating lever and stand contrivedby myself. The whole, thus modified, has been named the Spiritoscope.
(c) The apparatus thus designated consists of a box F, which is a