Excerpt from Inferences From Haunted Houses and Haunted Men Cope. A brave man can resist such an attack under favourable circumstances. It is well known to those who have read the Biography of Lawrence Oliphant, and that of Dr. Anna Kingsford by Pro fessor Maitland, that Lawrence Oliphant, who became a Shaker (a member of a sect who employ hypnotism, as Mr. H. Vincent describes, to bind their neophytes to them),1 wrote commonplace vulgar verse on re ligious subjects, although himself a highly cultivated literary man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.