Mary Roach Quotes

The Heyday Of Spiritualism--with Its Seances And Spirit Communications Zinging Through The Ether--coincided With The Dawn Of The Electric Age. The Generation That So Readily Embraced Spiritualism Was The Same Generation That Had Been Asked To Accept Such Seeming Witchery As Electricity, Telegraphy, Radio Waves, And Telephonic Communications--disembodied Voices Mysteriously Travelling Through Space And Emerging From A "receiver" Hundreds Of Miles Distant

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