Yes, light upon the time, place, source, and nature of that commencement, and which also discloses who was the originating, and probably the guiding agent of all that witchcraft's subsequent process up to its culmination-light which, to great extent, exculpates both the fathers and their children-light which reveals the true actors and exonerates their unconscious instruments.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
He exculpates himself by saying that the Professor didn't know how to use it, and that he oughtn't to have taken the things out of his Practical Joke Box.
"Happy-Thought Hall"
F. C. Burnand
Yet, in this secret history which you refuse to divulge, and which therefore must count against you, the truth may lie which exculpates you.
"Bat Wing"
Sax Rohmer