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The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

Review in the Daily News on October 17, 1871. "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley". Book edited by Leonard Huxley, Volume 1, p. 452, 1900.
The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of Spiritualism is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a medium hired