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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In spiritualism, the theory or practice of spiritrapping; also, the key to spirit-rappings.

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  • In the same way, typtology or rapping, more or less systematic, seems a fundamental gift, common to all the various kinds of

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • From this central fact, proved over and over again without any possible doubt to be true of the "thinking" animals, there have been developed two distinct groups of consequences: (1) the prodigious mathematical performances occurring as by magic among the Elberfeld horses at a certain point of their "education": (2) the apparent manifestations of thought through the typtology or rapping out of words, culminating in the "philosophic" achievements of Rolf and Lola.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

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