Robert Dale Owen 
Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World 
With Narrative Illustrations

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Gradually I became convinced that what by many have been regarded as new and unexampled phenomena are but modern phases of what has ever existed. And I ultimately reached the conclusion that, in order to a proper understanding of much that has excited and perplexed the public mind under the name of Spiritual Manifestations, historical research should precede every other inquiry, — that we ought to look throughout the past for classes of phenomena, and seek to arrange these, each in its proper niche.