Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy . FIG. 19. DIAGRAM SHOWING TENSION IN CROOKES APPARATUS (FIG. 16AND 17) UNDER HOMES INFLUENCE. varies enormously, not only from week to week, butfrom hour to hour; on some occasions the force is in-appreciable by my tests for an hour or more, and thensuddenly reappears in great strength. It is capable of acting at a distance from Mr. SCALE THE SAME AS ON FIG. FIG. 20. DIAGRAM SHOWING TENSION IN CROOKES APPARATUS (FIG. l6AND 17) UNDER HOMES INFLUENCE. Home
Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy . FIG. 19. DIAGRAM SHOWING TENSION IN CROOKES APPARATUS (FIG. 16AND 17) UNDER HOMES INFLUENCE. varies enormously, not only from week to week, butfrom hour to hour; on some occasions the force is in-appreciable by my tests for an hour or more, and thensuddenly reappears in great strength. It is capable of acting at a distance from Mr. SCALE THE SAME AS ON FIG. FIG. 20. DIAGRAM SHOWING TENSION IN CROOKES APPARATUS (FIG. l6AND 17) UNDER HOMES INFLUENCE. Home (not unfrequently as far as two or three feet),but is always strongest close to him. Being firmly convinced that there could be nomanifestation of one form of force without the corre- CROOKES EXPERIMENTS. 131 sponding expenditure of some other form of force, Ifor a long time searched in vain for evidence of anyforce or power being used up in the production ofthese results. Now, however, having seen more of Mr. Home, Ithink I perceive what it is that this psychic force usesup for its development. In employing the terms vitalforce or nervous energy, I am aware that I am em-ploying words which convey very different significa-tions to many investigators; but after witnessing thepainful state of nervous and bodily prostration inwhich some of these experiments have left Mr. Home—after seeing him lying in an almost fainting condi-tion on the floor, pale and speechless—I could scarce-ly doubt
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