Imagine a table-rapper calling up from the vasty deep the spirits of Paul or Saint Augustine, Archimedes or Newton, Pythagoras or Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci or William Herschel, and receiving their dictations from the interior of a table!
I am pretty much of the opinion Myers expresses in the following paragraph:[90] Spiritualists attribute the movement and the dictations at their seances to the action of disembodied intelligences.
In the entrance sits an old man opposite, and having his eyes very intent on his Table-book, writes according to the dictations of the young man standing by.
The Doctor followed my dictations so exactly, that I never heard more of him.
Those dictationswere sometimes on high questions of state, and on theories of war; sometimes on matters of the day, as in the following instance.
He dictated some of his copyright memories, and some anecdotes and episodes; but his amanuensis wrote only longhand, which perhaps hampered him, for he tired of it by and by and the dictations were discontinued.
In one of his dictationshe said: The skies are enchantingly blue.
He proposed to double the value and interest of our employment by letting his dictations continue the form of those earlier autobiographical chapters, begun with Redpath in 1885, and continued later in Vienna and at the Villa Quarto.
IN THE DAY'S ROUND A number of dictations of this period were about Susy, her childhood, and the biography she had written of him, most of which he included in his chapters.
After that the morning dictations became a secondary interest.
More than once after such dictations he reproached himself bitterly for the misfortunes of his house.
In the talks which we usually had, when the dictations were ended and Miss Hobby had gone, I gathered much that was of still greater value.
It was his purpose, he declared, that his dictations should not be published until he had been dead a hundred years or more--a prospect which seemed to give him an especial gratification.
Colonel Harvey came to Dublin that summer and persuaded Clemens to let him print some selections from the dictations in the new volume of the North American Review, which he proposed to issue fortnightly.
So the dictations were transferred to the long veranda, and he was generally ready for them, a white figure pacing up and down before that panoramic background.
Arriving in New York, I found that Clemens himself had published his Shakespeare dictations in a little volume of his own, entitled, 'Is Shakespeare Dead?
We had no dictations on Saturdays, and I took the pictures on one of these holiday mornings.
Those dictations were sometimes written down by Montholon, and sometimes by Las Cases.
Those dictations must be regarded as the studied defences of Napoleon against the heavy charges laid against his government.
In one of his dictations he said: I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small or a large way.
The dictations thus begun continued steadily from week to week, and always with increasing charm.
CCXLV IN THE DAY'S ROUND A number of dictations of this period were about Susy, her childhood, and the biography she had written of him, most of which he included in his chapters.
Miss Hobby came, and on the 21st of May the dictationswere resumed.
There was a humorous complexion to the dictations which perhaps I have not conveyed to the reader at all; humor was his natural breath and life, and was not wholly absent in his most somber intervals.
It was at such times that he allowed me to make those inquiries we had planned in the beginning, and which apparently had little place in the dictations themselves.
This is my last entry, and the dictations must have ceased a few days later.
We can have the dictations here in the morning, and you can put in the rest of the day to suit yourself.
In the talks that we usually had when the dictations were ended and the stenographer had gone I got much that was of great value.
In May the dictations were transferred to Dublin, New Hampshire, to the long veranda of the Upton House, on the Monadnock slope.
There was a good deal of social life in Dublin, but, the dictations were seldom interrupted.
The dictationsthus begun continued steadily from week to week, with increasing charm.
The dictations should invariably be given so that opposites and their intermediates may be readily seen.
The dictations should be given very simply, clearly, and slowly, always using one set of terms to express a certain meaning, and having those absolutely correct.
As the gift includes both white and colored sticks, would it not be well to use the former for all dictations in Life forms, reserving the brilliant hues for the forms of symmetry whose charms they would greatly enhance?
All the dictations are most valuable intellectually, but should not be long-continued at one time, as they require great concentration of mind, and are consequently wearisome.
We should never give dictations from a book, but from memory, having prepared the lesson beforehand, and should remember that every exercise we give should "incite and develop self-activity.
The gift presents little difficulty, the dictations requiring less concentration than heretofore as the positions in which the rings may be placed are few and simple.
In the dictations it will be perceived that we now have to specify the position which the brick must take as well as the place which it is to occupy.
All this he will learn by means of play with the tablets, by dictations and inventions, and by constant comparison and use of the various forms.
Among those who furnished dictations at his instance were two of his brothers, and his nephew Alvarado, Governor of California under Mexican rule.
Though returning himself to Denver, that day, he promised to have more Wyoming dictations taken.
He calls attention to the fact that in the Colorado dictations there is frequently material on Montana, and in the Utah dictations, material on Idaho and Nevada.
On the same date he forwarded the dictations of three of the first Mormons in Nevada, requesting that when the material had been used for this volume, they be turned over to Mr. Bates, then at work on the History of Utah.
Many were the dictations in English, French, and German, descriptive of the town and the surrounding downs which Margaret had written, and it was strange to think that she was now about to see these places for herself.
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