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CHAPTER IV
THE SPIRITISTS' OTHER WORLD
The World After Death
"WHEN you establish a world after death, you
alter the proportion of everything," remarks a wellknown
scientist. Few will dispute the statement,
but many will rub their eyes and wonder if
they've
been asleep, for they thought that this fact had been
established ages ago, and was a belief practically
common to every religion from time immemorial.
"That may be so," I suppose a scientist might
reply; "but until established scientifically it does
not exist for us."
Scientific
Evidence
There is, of course, a wide range of subjects which
are not yet "established" by the general consensus
of scientists, but which "exist," though not for
them. We might even include among these the
separate life of the "spirit." This, of course, is
denied entirely by all "monists" (represented by
Haeckel and others), who regard thought as a secretion
of the brain, somewhat comparable to bile from
the liver. It is also doubted by some others, though
monism is now a little out of date.
But even if not established on general scientific
authority, the fact of another world is asserted,