This spirit-face is the realisation of a high ideal of beauty,sweetness, and spirituality. The beauty of it we cannot nowfully comprehend; but, as we gaze on it, we may say in thewords of Michael Angelo:—
THE VEIL LIFTED.
MODERN DEVELOPMENTS OF
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY.
With Twelve Illustrations.
A PAPER BY J. TRAILL TAYLOR
DESCRIBING EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHY.
LETTER BY THE REV. H. R. HAWEIS, M.A.
ADDRESSES BY JAMES ROBERTSON, GLASGOW.
AND
MISCELLANEA BY THE EDITOR,
ANDREW GLENDINNING.
LONDON:
WHITTAKER & CO., White Hart Street, E.C.
1894.
“Kant expressed himself favourable to the view that aworld of supersensuous beings environs this planet, and thatthe establishment of communication with such beings is onlya matter of time.”—E. D. Fawcett.
“Before many months are over, I think it will be admittedby every candid mind that the persistence of the individual afterdeath, and the possibility of communicating with that individual,has been as well established on a scientific basis as any otherfact in nature. That, you may think, is a bold assertion. It isnot an assertion; it is a prophecy, based upon facts which arewithin my own knowledge, and of which I speak with as muchconfidence as I do of anything which has ever come within myown personal observation.”—W. T. Stead, in The Review ofReviews, Jan. 1893.
“Personally, we consider Spiritualism a valuable bulwarkagainst the inroads of Materialistic Atheism.”—Saladin, inThe Agnostic Journal.
PREFACE.
The publication in the British Journal ofPhotography of Mr. Taylor’s Paper, with theproceedings of the meeting at which it wasread, has aroused a wide-spread and deep interestin the subject. The principal portions ofit, and, in some instances the whole of thePaper, together with editorial comments, havesubsequently appeared in newspapers andjournals in Canada, Australia, India, America,and other countries. As his experiments willbe a matter of historical interest, many scientificmen will be pleased to have his Paper in thisbook form, with the reproductions of two of thepsychic pictures which he obtained on his photographicplates.
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