I have touched but little upon the unclean side of Spiritualism. Thousands upon thousands of virtuous men and women entertain its theory or hold to its faith. But the manipulators of the supernatural machinery, the members of the inner circle, the prestidigitateurs and clumsy magicians, who seek to make simpletons of mankind, I now accuse of the grossest practices and abominations, the loosest social ideas, the most utter absence of principle that has been exhibited by any one set of people in the nineteenth century. They are wholly corrupt, and there is no good in them. If Spiritualism in any form survives the blow now given it by Margaret and Catherine Fox, who were its creators, it will only be because of the veiled licentiousness introduced into it by those who have enlarged upon its original plan. This licentiousness, like the bruised serpent, will not down, but still will lift its head, and lurk amid deepest shadows. Spiritualism, however, cannot again deceive the world. * * * * * And it is written: "The dead shall not return; nor any that go down into Hell!" INDEX. INDEX. ABJURATION by Margaret Fox Kane of Spiritualism at the Academy of Music, New York, 65, 74. ADMISSIONS of Mrs. Leah Fox Fish regarding the results of the Buffalo medical investigation, 140, 144. AGASSIZ (Professor) investigates Spiritualism, 147. ANTICS of the Fox Children at Hydesville near Rochester, 83, 87, 89, 96. ATTRACTIONS of the younger Fox Sisters, 129. AUDACITY (Imbecile) of spiritualistic imposters, 146. --(Supreme) of fraud, 150. AUTHORIZATION of the publication of this work by Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken, 7. "BABY mediumship" --How the trick was done with the child of Mrs. Catherine Fox Jencken, 160. BELIEF in Spiritualism, --Mrs. Kane never pretended to any, 167, 181, 236. --John D. Fox never had any, 99. "BOBBING" of apples on the floor in the Hydesville house, 84, 90, 95. BOOMERANGS (Spiritualistic), 131. BROWN (Mrs. Ann Leah Fox), --Malignant opposition to Dr. Kane's efforts to detach her sister Maggie from Spiritualism, 222, 232. --Exulting in deception, 223. --Maggie warned against her by Dr. Kane, 227. --Sinister influence over her sisters, 232. "BUFFALO Doctors" --Their investigation of the "rappings," 131. --Their correct theory, but wrong hypothesis, 131. --How their investigation if further pursued, would have led to the truth, 133. "CHARLES Ceri" --The "spirit of Mr. Seybert" mistakes the name of Mr. Sellers, of the "Seybert Commission," 171. CLAIMS of Spiritualism as set forth in petition to Congress, 1854, 151, 152. COMMITTEES of tools and accomplices, 121. CONDEMNATION of Spiritualism --The substantial effect of the report of Harvard professors on the tests in Boston, 1857, 149. CONCERTED signals used in the early séances, 127.