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Excerpt from Nineteenth Century Sense: The Paradox of Spiritualism
That which was the origin and is the meaning of the report of the Seybert Commission was the origin and is the meaning of the volume in hand. It is known to more than a little multitude of people that a fund was left, several years back, to the University of Pennsylvania, in trust, to be employed in examination of the so-called "spiritistic" phenomena of the times. The gentleman leaving this fund had implicit faith in the reality of such manifestations, and it was his intention, as is well known to the writer, to secure influential means, first, as to endorsement, which he never doubted would be the result of an examination, and, second, as to extension of a good enjoyed by himself. This trust being accepted, a committee was appointed to carry out its intentions. This committee, as it is understood, has earnestly and faithfully labored at the task imposed on it, and is now about ready to make public a report of what has been done.
Commencing a like work at the same time with this Commission, the author of the volume in hand finds concurrence as to the conclusion of the labor a matter at which he is very well pleased, seeing that remedy will be found at hand for correction of mistakes not unlikely to exist.
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