An Exposition of Views Respecting the Modern Spirit Manifestations

When the 'spirit rappings' swept New England, Hopedale was not immune, and Ballou gave the phenomena the same grave scrutiny he gave everything: an examination of the principal facts, causes, and peculiarities of the manifestations, open to the possibility of spirit communion yet alert to fraud, delusion, and spiritual danger. Written in the year his beloved son died, it is both an early document of American spiritualism and a window on the movement's entanglement with liberal religion.

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