We might as well surrender to the spiritists at once.
To grant one single claim of the spiritists was disaster.
He concluded that all other spiritists were impostors.
Davey, after a little practice, succeeded in duplicating by mere sleight of hand many of the most impressive feats of the mediums; doing this, indeed, so well that some spiritists alleged that he was in reality a medium himself.
This makes one think of the belief professed by spiritists concerning incredulity.
I pointed out the radical differences existing between the beliefs of Anglo-Saxon spiritistsand those of spiritists of other nationalities, particularly in that which concerns reincarnation.
But the presence of a large number of sitters is a bad condition for observation; it also enhances the difficulty of the realisation of, what spiritists call, the harmony of the circle.
All the same, I will remark that the most worthy spiritists recommend singing or music during seances.
Spiritists attribute their phenomena to the spirits of the dead.
The harmony recommended by spiritists is a kind of equilibrium between the mental and emotional states of the sitters.
Spiritistic reviews, notably the Revue Spirite, Revue Morale et Scientifique du Spiritisme, Light, Psychische Studien, give many examples of fraud discovered by spiritists themselves.
If we are experimenting with spiritistsor with people accustomed to spiritistic proceedings, the table, raising itself, will be seen to strike the floor with one of its legs.
At the same time, I have seen convinced spiritists make detestable co-operators.
The word is a plexus of connotations; and to identify it out-of-hand with the conceptions of spiritists is a course more worthy of a theologian than of a man of science.
Fowler took issue with me here: "It is absurd to say that no one but these physicists has ever properly studied spiritualistic phenomena; spiritists themselves have put the screws on quite as effectively as ever Crookes or Richet has done.
The man in whose shoes he stands is one of the most widely read and deeply experienced spiritists I have ever known, and I have sincerely tried to present through Fowler the argument which his prototype might have used.
It would not be fair to the spiritists to end the account of these sittings without frankly stating that there were many other phenomena very difficult to explain by Bottazzi's theory.
The spirit-manifestations of which the spiritists make so much, and in which they fancy they have a new inspiration and revelation, are nothing new in history, and are not more frequent now than they have been at various other epochs.
The spiritists cannot say the doctrine of the church is impossible or prove that it is not true.
Mr. Owen and all the spiritiststell us that the spirit-manifestations prove undeniably the immortality of the soul; but they prove nothing 807 of the sort.
He also gives us a criterion by which the operations of the Holy Ghost may be distinguished from visionary illusions sent by Satan to deceive and ruin the soul, which the spiritists make so much of.
The spiritists admit that the spirits are fallible; that there are among them lying, malevolent spirits.
The vivid pictures which Carl du Prel, of Munich, and other spiritists give of their phenomena must be regarded as the outcome of a lively imagination, together with a lack of critical power and of knowledge of physiology.
It is a frequent boast of spiritists that even eminent men of science defend their superstition.
The Spiritists hold that man will reincarnate in earthly human bodies, only until the Spirit learns its lessons and develops sufficiently to pass on to the next plane higher.
These, spiritists insist, are absolutely inexplicable on the telepathic basis.
We have no intention of reopening the discussion of the woman question, or that of spiritists and spiritism; the questions of divorce and free religion have also been amply discussed, at least for the present, in this magazine.
The "spirits" of spiritists are, of course, not impressive, if their somewhat startling amount of information be excepted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
