For the rest, it was unfair that any one should prejudge a matter of such importance, while their minds were occupied with a more momentous concern.

"A lot of necks ought to crack, after all this!" "Can't saywe mustn't prejudge the case," said the chief.

Yet I would not prejudge herno, and I won't now!"

The question of the identity of these intelligenceswhich we may, without prejudging their nature, leaving that to be determined by more complete experiences, consider disembodiedwith the persons in the flesh whose names they use, is one on which I have great difficulty in forming a conclusion, though, as a rule, my experience in "circles" has been that the imposture was too gross to deceive a person of ordinary intellectual power.

Without at all prejudging the question on this score, it is difficult not to feel a certain presumption in favour of a conclusion which has been reached after such elaborate argument, especially where, as here, there could be no suspicion of a merely apologetic tendency on either side.