To brand the events as being the products of fraud, credulity, and infatuation, because only modern limitations to nature's permissions and powers render them unexplainable as facts, is shameful.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
As such they were handled, their users employing them severally as afflictor or as afflicted, at their pleasure, within the permissions of psychological laws.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
The motive was devoid of either malice or benevolence; it essentially was that of the scientist seeking new knowledge of nature's permissions.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam