The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.