Tele-visions of the Dying: Ghost-seeing in the Society for Psychical Research in the 1880s
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In the dumb agony which seizes the soul when some loved one is taken from us, in the awful sense of separation which paralyses us as we gaze upon the lifeless form, there comes the unutterable yearning for some voice, some sign from beyond; and if in answer to our imploring cry for an assurance that our faith is not in vain, that our dear one is living still, a smile were to overspread the features of the dead, or its lips to move, or even its fingers to be lifted, should we deem any action a paltry thing that assures us death has not yet ended life, and still more that death will not end all?
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