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 Rh is sufficiently improbable." To which may be added what, in a lapse into veracity, that colossal old liar, Madame Blavatsky, is reported to have said:

A word or two as to the sequel. The befooled observers "all with one consent began to make excuse." But some muttered "e pur si muove." Mr. Myers, despite what has happened, sees no reason for "abandoning a quest which has already in other instances proved more fruitful than psychical researchers had ventured to hope." Professor Lodge is as uneasy as he deserves to be, but hints at "genuine phenomena in other cases." Professor Barrett sees in Eusapia's cheating "a dynamic force in human thought," whatever that may mean. Mr. Lang, in a halfbantering letter where one hears him whistling to keep up his courage, "frankly admits that, on the strength of Mr. Lodge's report, he did expect Eusapia to give the S. P. R, a better run for their money." However, we gather from subsequent remarks of his that he washes his hands of the whole sorry business. He is surprised that Dr. Hodgson, who was the first to predict Eusapia's method and to detect her tricks, should, "after exploding her, Madame Blavatsky,