“(27) What is your own name? _Only you._ “(28) We are not quite sure of the meaning of the answer. Explain. _Wife._ “The subject was resumed on a later day. “(118) But does no one tell wife what to write? if so, who? _Spirit._ “(119) Whose spirit? _Wife’s brain._ “(120) But how does wife’s brain know masonic secrets? _Wife’s spirit unconsciously guides._ “(190) Why are you not always influenced by what I think? _Wife knows sometimes what you think._ (191) How does wife know it? _When her brain is excited, and has not been much tried before._ (192) But by what means are my thoughts conveyed to her brain? _Electrobiology._ (193) What is electrobiology? _No one knows._ (194) But do not you know? _No, wife does not know._ “My object,” says Mr. Newnham, “in quoting this large number of questions and replies [many of them omitted here] has been not merely to show the instantaneous and unfailing transmission of thought from questioner to operator, but more especially to call attention to a remarkable character of the answers given. These answers, consistent and invariable in their tenor from first to last, did not correspond with the opinion or expectation of either myself or my wife. Something which takes the appearance of a source of intelligence distinct from the conscious intelligence of either of us was clearly perceptible from the very first. Assuming, at the outset, that if her source of percipience could grasp my question, it would be equally willing to reply in accordance with my request, in questions (13) (14) I suggested the form of answer; but of this not the slightest notice was taken. Neither myself nor my wife had ever taken part in any form of (so-called) ‘spiritual’ manifestations before this time; nor had we any decided opinion as to the agency by which phenomena of this kind were brought about. But for such answers as those numbered (14), (27), (144), (192), (194), we were both of us totally unprepared; and I may add that, so far as we were prepossessed by any opinion whatever, these replies were distinctly opposed to such opinions. In a word, it is simply impossible that these replies should have been either suggested, or composed, by the _conscious_ intelligence of either of us.”