The Probable Effect of Spiritualism Upon the Social, Moral, And Religious Condition of Society : Prize Essays
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Such an argument as this is wholly unassailable by any weapons of orthodox Christianity. The Christians and Materialists are at the two poles of behef, and both lack the middle part of it which Spiritualism can supply. For these it has its verifiable facts; for those its all-embracing philo- sophy. With the Materialist it is neces- sary to begin by proving that Intelligence and Vohtion are to be found separate D 50 EFFECT OF SPIRITUALISM. from the brain and human organism.. With the Religionist... it is necessary to- point out the true raison d'etre of his belief That Spiritualism is true may be de- monstrated in two ways — inductively, from the facts of spirit-communion occur- ring daily in our midst ; deductively, from the universality of the belief in it, which has prevailed in some form or other in all civilized nations. It is difficult, nay impossible, to suppose that any wide- spread belief is an entirely baseless one. Moreover, this belief that when every sensible proof of life is extinct a some- thing yet lives, is not one for which we can readily assign a cause if it be false.
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