Faraday, I read, sitting on the garden bench, perusing the yellowed copy of The Athenaeum which Arthur had managed to locate and borrow for me. ‘He did this in 1853!’ I remarked. ‘And yet people still continue with spiritualism, so his reasoning doesn’t seem to have convinced the public.’‘I suppose not,’ smiled Arthur.‘What fun it must be to be a physicist,’ I said. ‘I wish I could simply tell Mrs Thorne that I should like to make some experiments to verify her statements. But I could hardly ask her that, and even if I did, I admit I can’t see what experiments to make.’‘Well, there were two physicists there already, according to what you told me,’ he answered. ‘Perhaps they are investigating the phenomenon.’‘Ernest and Professor Lodge? They were there, certainly. But they don’t seem to be investigating much. I mean, Professor Lodge certainly thinks he is investigating, but he believes so completely in the phenomenon of communication with the dead that it doesn’t occur to him to question it.
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