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THE SPIRITISTS' OTHER WORLD 69
nauseous and revolting twaddle. I know I shall be
decried, for such words, as a partisan, as a wolf in
sheep's clothing, as one pretending to write a fair
book on a great subject, and yet descending to the
coarsest abuse, etc.; but I ask, in the name of
decency and common sense, "What am I to say ?
"Raymond," Science and Religion
Once more I acknowledge the profound selfsacrifice
of the great scientist in publishing such a
book; but can I believe he has been well advised in
doing so ? No, a thousand times no ! If a father must
listen (with infinite pain) to a "Feda" (the supposed
spirit of a little ignorant Indian girl speaking
through some medium), in the hope of catching
the loved tones of a dear son, at any rate let the
privacy of the whole subject be respected, and the
scientist must know that no
veil closely drawn over such extraordinary revelations.
Surely any
respectable "science" can be benefited by the
publication of such absurd utterances !
If any wish to take the one step that is said
to
cover the distance from the sublime to the ridiculous,
let them first peruse the fifteenth chapter of
St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians and then a
chapter of "Raymond."
I think, brief and discursive as I have been, I have
shown the highest and the lowest (Spiritist) ideas of
the other world; but I feel I should add that the
lofty views of "Julia," so far as I can find, are
endorsed by no other Spiritist whatever, the future
world developed by the rank and file of Spiritists
being clearly Theosophic.