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Spiritualism examined and refuted

it being found contrary to Scripture, known facts and common sense : its phenomena accounted for, while all its claims for disembodied spirits are disproved : also, a discussion of its moral claims, showing that they have not been verified by results attained in the present condition of mankind, as proved by statistics and known facts : some theories often reviewed by spiritualism are briefly examined and answered

by John H. Dadmun & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Thirty-five years of investigation, including eight of mediumship, failed to make the author a spiritualist. If you read this work carefully, you may discover the true position."

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the title, “Spiritualism” in the subtitle, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· in title
    • “Spiritualism”· in subtitle
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
    • “Spiritualism”· in edition title

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it being found contrary to Scripture, known facts and common sense : its phenomena accounted for, while all its claims for disembodied spirits are disproved : also, a discussion of its moral claims, showing that they have not been verified by results attained in the present condition of mankind, as proved by statistics and known facts : some theories often reviewed by spiritualism are briefly examined and answered

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1893-01-01T00:00:00ZPhiladelphia, Pa. : The authorEnglish—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe8.capitolhill.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL16721694W
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