Ghosts In Solid Form
BY GAMBIER BOLTON
Ex-Pres. The Psychological Society, London, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., etc.
CHAPTER I
"A single grain of solid fact is worth ten tons of theory."
"The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon
me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to
SEE something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people
can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can
see. To SEE clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in
one."--JOHN RUSKIN.
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