Hugo's dabbling in spiritism at the time: Oh! Sefton. From Wordnik.com. [Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef] Reference
The phenomena of so-called spiritism, while not as yet justifying. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Religious Cults and Movements] Reference
“Mr. Arbitage, on the other hand, embraces the idea of spiritism, and of speaking with our dear departed ones on the Other Side. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
"nerve-force," wherein, while admitting that great and good men believed in the phenomena of "spiritism," he concluded that they were overhasty in assigning causes. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
What spiritism denied, electricity seemed to grant. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
“You have not read his writings on spiritism?” she said. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
Spiritists say 'yes,' for this is the 'last ditch' of spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
The reversion to ancestor worship in spiritism seems more clear, and dinners at Kensal. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
But that is no reason that we should immediately account for it by labelling it spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3] Reference
I really hope “Prinncess and the Frog” will not be a “voo doo-spiritism-real-black-magic homage”. From Wordnik.com. [The Hat Walk] Reference
Uganda is a country plagued with incredible poverty and entrenched spiritism and nearly gutted by a 19-year civil war. From Wordnik.com. [Walking with the night] Reference
Thus he first came into touch with that sphere of phenomena which is known as spiritualism, or perhaps more suitably, spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The aversion to spiritism which Crookes met with in contemporary science was, from the standpoint of such a science, largely justified. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Upon this, confused jumble of spiritism, superstition, loyalty to ancestors and submission to a divine hierarchy Buddhism was superimposed. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference
Accordingly, he threw himself eagerly into the systematic investigation of his new experiences, and so became the father of modern scientific spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Just as Crookes had once sought to investigate spiritism scientifically, so in his subsequent scientific inquiries he was always something of a spiritist. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
After several years of fruitless struggle he broke off his investigations into spiritism, deeply disillusioned at his failure to interest official science in it. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
"Mere phenomenal spiritism is of course only designed to arrest the attention; its other form appeals to the soul, and becomes a part of the daily lives of those who realize it.". From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
I don't mean McGeorge's story, but the whole sweep of spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
"Which was a long way from saying that spiritism was true," remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow World] Reference
They were all serious about the spiritism, and believed absolutely in. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Hence also the degradation of the system into pure magic and spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference
There is no theory more profoundly implanted in early mankind than that of spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56] Reference
These men lived exclusively for psychical research, and it converted both to spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
Haeckel has chosen this word Monism, as opposed to theism, deism, materialism, spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
I believed in spiritism, and would be accordantly sympathetic with the author's ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
He could express it in the semantics of spiritism, or he could admit to witchcraft and sorcery. From Wordnik.com. [Sense from Thought Divide] Reference
Wise County Appraisal District One who was quiet; and the case when there is a vision in spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Then there are their superstitions that careful study might separate clearly from their true spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted Canyon] Reference
Clarke is preparing to renounce his pulpit and startle the world by a book on 'spiritism,' as he calls his faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
This is the dilemma which spiritism is finally brought to face and from this dilemma there is absolutely no escape. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Religious Cults and Movements] Reference
Elizabeth Browning's mind was as much occupied with spiritism as when Hawthorne met her two years previously at Monckton. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
The unsatisfied need for the supernatural was driving people, in default of something loftier, to spiritism and the occult. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
I came out here to escape 'shop,' and here we are wasting time on X-rays and spiritism, and boring our patient hostess besides. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
Years ago, in Naples, I visited Mr. Owen for the first time, and found him directing his attention to the phenomena of spiritism. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference
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