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MODERN SPIRITISM
as special constables all over England and Scotland
in short, a whole nation, not of imaginative Celts,
but of cold-blooded, slow-minded Anglo-Saxons, all
involved in one common gigantic delusion, which
was believed by them so implicity that to doubt
their word was to court their severe displeasure and
to write oneself a fool.
It was not that they all saw or heard the same
thing; they
did not
Ṫhe Same Lie
But they one and all believed the same lie!
Not that any authority ever told this lie; but it
sprang up practically almost of itself in a night, and
in twenty-four hours seemed common property,
all over England, with a few doubters at a heavy
discount.
Grave parsons had heard crowds, with their
bearded heads out of the carriage windows, talking
and shouting Russian as they slowly passed some
wayside station. My brother-in-law, as a special
constable in Middlesex, told me he had special
warning to guard two bridges as the Russian Army
trains were to pass that night. Another cousin in
Somerset watched a long
train full of Russians
slowly pass under the road bridge below his
house.
An interesting letter from Aberdeen told me of four
long trains full of Russians which had been despatched
south that night, holding up the ordinary traffic.
These had come from Archangel
!
Another helped to give refreshments to the
Russians at a wayside station, and another saw
thousands off at the docks. I might go on for