“There are numerous instances in which heavy objects, such as tables, chairs, ropes, etc., have been moved when the medium never touched them. I will mention a few striking cases. “My own chair turned half way around while my feet were on the floor. “In full view of all the people present, a chair started from a far off corner and advanced slowly to a table while we were watching its movement. “On another occasion an arm chair came from to the place we were seated, and then, on my demand, slowly returned backward a distance of three feet. “During three consecutive _seances_, a small table crossed the room under conditions I had especially fixed in advance, in order to respond victoriously to all objections that might possibly be raised against the reality of the phenomenon. “I repeated on several occasions the experiment considered as conclusive by the “_Dialectic Society_,” that is to say, the movement of a heavy table in a full glare of light, the backs of chairs being turned towards the table about one foot of distance, each person being in a kneeling posture upon his chair, the hands placed upon the back above the table, but not touching it. “On one of these occasions, the experiment took place while I walked all around the table in order to see how each person was placed.” (_Crookes_). In our own seances, with Madam Rosine, L.B., we have seen, ten or twelve times at least, a small table on rollers, advance towards us as though moved by a force of attraction or repulsion. A similar phenomenon was very often produced in my office, under the mediumistic influences of M. D. with a strength of extraordinary propulsion, which seemed to originate in brute force. The traces of violent shocks of a table against my bureau still remain to testify to the results of this occurrence. CLASS V.—_Chairs and tables raised from the earth without contact with any person._ “A remark usually made when cases of this kind arise is: ‘Why do these things only occur with chairs and tables? Is this a privilege solely enjoyed by pieces of furniture?’ I wish to answer this by stating that I simply observed facts and report them without pretending to enter into the _why_ and _how_; but, in truth, it is very evident that if any inanimate object of a certain weight can be lifted from the earth in the ordinary dining room, it could as easily be anything else than a chair or table. “That such phenomena are not limited to furniture I have numerous proofs, as have other experimenters; the _intelligence_ or _force_, whichever it may be, that produces the manifestations, can only operate with materials that are at its disposition. “On five distinct occasions a heavy dining table was raised from the floor for a height varying from some inches to a foot and a half, under special imposed conditions that made fraud impossible.