Reverend A. Mahan. 
 
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Company, 1855. Octavo. Hardcover without a dust jacket. First edition. Crown of the spine is chipped, foot of the spine rubbed. Binding feels a bit tight, possibly indicating a repair at some point. Hinges strong. Good.
 
"We had to admit the facts, or take the ground that no strange events can be established by testimony. How then could we ask the world to believe in Christian miracles? We found equally valid evidence for the reality of the facts of Spiritualism, as far as the intelligent communications are concerned. We found ourselves necessitated, therefore, in moral honesty, to admit the facts, and then seek an explanation of them on some mundane hypothesis, as their character precluded any other supposition than their exclusively mundane origin. As we reflected upon the facts under consideration, we were forcible struck with this suggestion, that they seemed evidently to imply the existence in nature of a polar force not yet distinctly recognized in philosophy."