Identifier: davenportbrother00bost (find matches)
Title: The Davenport brothers
Year: 1869 (1860s)
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Subjects: Davenport, Ira Erastus, b. 1839. (from old catalog) Davenport, William Henry, b. 1841. (from old catalog) Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston, W. White and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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equalto a pressure of three hundred and seventy-eight pounds toevery inch of the rung within the grasp; while to float it,as it was floated, called for an expenditure of muscular forceequal to the lifting of a ton and a half dead weight, for thechair was constantly held out on a level with the forefingerof the hand and the extended arm. Of course, the writerdoes not pretend to s&y that the power that lifted the chairreally exerted that tremendous amount of force; for, in allhuman probability, the hand seen lifted part of its weight,while other hands, unseen, assisted from above : but he doessay that the display was quite surprising. At this point, it will be quite apropos to relate a circum-stance of precisely an opposite, yet, if possible, still moreconvincing character, in which there was displayed an evi-dence of the power of the mysterious being to see materialthings without the aid, of course, of material eyes such aswe are blessed with on this beautiful earth of God and man.
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DAVENPOKTS SCHEME. 53 The incident referred to was this: the father of the youngDavenports was and is a skeptic by nature; for he pos-sesses one of those stubbornly-monlded intellects; whosehabitude is to reject ninety-nine points confirmatory of atheory, if the hundredth chance to fail; and, notwithstand-ing his immense experience of and acquaintance with thephenomena usually ascribed to disembodied agencies,:—which, in his case, probably surpasses that of any one mannow living, or that ever lived, — the skeptical mood wouldcome on him ; and he constantly resorted to all sorts of ex-pedients in order to test a matter still more thoroughly,that he had exhausted himself in endeavoring to explodeand account for on any other ground than the true one.At length, about the time wherein the last-described occur-rence took place, afc happy thought struck him fairly, and aplan was presented to his mind, whereby not only would hecatch the boys tripping, if trip they did, but test the seeing

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