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 HERMIONE ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

PIRITUALISM is becoming quite the thing, isn't it?

Dear Sir Oliver Lodge has been proving some more things quite recently, you know. How anyone could doubt a man with such a lovely head and face I can't imagine!

Spiritualism and Spiritism are quite different, you know. It has been a long time, really, since Spiritualism was taken seriously.

Except by superstitious people, of course.

But Spiritism has come to stay. It has nothing to do with superstition at all. It's part of Advanced Thought—quite scientific, you know, while Spiritualism was just a fad.

And Spiritualism is somehow more—well, er—vulgar, if you get what I mean. The sort of people one cares to know well have dropped Spiritualism for Spiritism.

Though, of course, a ghost is a ghost, whether it is materialized by Spiritualism or Spiritism.

I have been often told that I am naturally very clairvoyant—if I were developed I would make a [183]