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Title: Hydesville
The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism

Author: Thomas Olman Todd

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Language: English

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HYDESVILLE.

[Illustration: ADVENT OF SPIRITUALISM 1848.
JOHN D. FOX.
HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS.
HYDESVILLE
NEW YORK U.S.A.]

HYDESVILLE:

The Story of the Rochester Knockings,
Which Proclaimed
the Advent of Modern Spiritualism,

by

THOMAS OLMAN TODD,

Past President of the British Spiritualists' Lyceum Union.

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Published at
The Keystone Press,
Sunderland.

DEDICATED TO DAISY.

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A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food,
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
--Wordsworth.

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"Some secret truths from learned pride concealed,
To maids alone and children are revealed:
What though no credit doubting wits may give,
The fair and innocent shall still believe."
--POPE.

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"Rightly viewed, no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as
windows