60 INTRODUCTION. “Clairvoyance” and the written testimony were things of spontaneous birth. By that I mean that nothing was deliberately planned or mapped out, as, for instance, would be a Cycling Tournament, and the registering of “ Records.” Ordinary every-day sort of people —if they will pardon the phrase—came to see me in order to talk about psychic phenomena, and if any tests or descriptions were given, they, in some cases, wrote a letter in an honest, plain, straightforward manner, stating what had occurred. The very weakness of one or two letters is, in my opinion, my strongest evidence against the absurd, though frequent, charge of fraud. If I were inclined to deceive people, and if my witnesses had been willing to aid and abet me in so doing, I am sure that we should have produced testimony which would have been almost, if not quite, irre- futable. But it is not my intention to discuss how far fraud or lying could account for this production. Yoni sott. Iam convinced of the honesty and integrity of my witnesses; and so far as my own part, viz. the production of the phenomena, is concerned, I care nothing for what self-appointed human judges may say or do. Where it has been necessary to call myself