LEVITATION
Sir-In reply .to "Argosy" I would like to suggest that Home’s levitation was a scientific demonstration to convince sceptics of a truth. The main point at issue is that’ Home’s body passed out of one window and entered another. Who opened the window and whether he went in feet or head first, horizontal or perpendicular, are all beside the point. If D. D. Home’s levitation demonstration had remained imside the room only, sceptics would have said the body was supported by invisible wires or given some other explanation. What of the scores of other levitation demonstrations which have taken place with’ furniture, where heavy tables have been "levitated" to the ceiling and lowered again, in spite of two or three strong people trying to hold them down? Who was it that said, "There are more things in Heaven and earth than are ever dreamed of in our philosophy?"
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(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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151LEVITATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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