The Coming of the Fairies #222485

I would warn the critic, however, not to be led away by the sophistry that because some professional trickster, apt at the game of decep tion, can produce a somewhat similar effect, therefore the originals were produced in the same way. There are few realities which cannot be imitated, and the ancient argument that because conjurers on their own prepared plates or stages can produce certain results, therefore similar results obtained by untrained people under natural conditions are also false, is surely dis counted by the intelligent public.