Dissolution or Physicial Death, and How Spirit Chemists Produce Materialization
Springfield, Mass. Star Publishing Co., 1887.
Softcover. Near fine. Stated "second edition," but probably in fact the first and only edition. Side-stapled pamphlet, pp 14 + (2), ads. Minor staining to front wrapper. Number 8 in a series of nine pamphlets purported to be written by English scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) from the beyond. In life, Faraday was a vocal critic of the spiritualist movement, performing experiments to demonstrate how table-tipping and other seemingly supernatural phenomena could be explained by science. In death, he made a handy target for appropriation by true believers. Here he is made to provide a scientific explanation for how the spirit can live on after the body has died. 5 copies located in OCLC, where authorship is attributed to Thomas Cushman Buddington.
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