Quote#Wisdom
Human experience has pronounced "black magic" a delusion. Its…
Quote byErnest Barnes · 1874–1953
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918).
English (original)
Human experience has pronounced "black magic" a delusion. Its practice is criminal folly: criminal because its objective is evil, folly because the means employed are futile.
— Ernest Barnes
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