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SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST.
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eveD In bimsell Uum fn otlio",; not enduring
10 hold his judgment In oU$pen~e.-ror every
new dhn:'ovcry bi~ wind findN a place in tU.mle
preconcelvt.ad theory. or at onct3 (rames· a new
and more marvchms aile \0 ,fit alld hold iI,
1I1. ",port of facts Is shaped and colored
throughout by his Im"l!iDativo conviction.;
and his read .... .find tbemselves tokeu out of
tbe \vorld of hL,tory and ehrouology Into i.
realm of wonde .... hardly Dearer to experlencetban,the
fairy-land of Spen.er. the spiritual
battle-plaiD of Milton'. angel •• or the
misty field of Tennyson'. Lyonnesse. Ue
found tbe waUs whlcb Apollo and l'oseidon
built; he found the streets througb which
tbe piau. son of Aphrodite bore his old faUIer
from their burning home; he found tbe
Sca'aD gate, at wblcb the SOIlS of the' gods sat
wonderlog at tI.e beauty of 'JIelen. as a
theme worthy of a world In nnns; be found
the royal trea..ure of King Priam, 'tbe dia~
demo and jewel. which bad ~ell the oma·
meuts of beauty and Ule pride of power, In
the daY. when the sono of Go.d and the
daugb~e ... of meD were in dally and intimate
aSsociation. .'
Tbe critical world, wbile It could not IIC'­
oept I)r. 8chllemaun'$ Interpretation of these
dl.coveries. was startled lind puzzled by the .
wonderful facts which he luod brougbt to
ligbt.. The doubt whicb Borne .trove to
. thrQw on bi. good flllUI waR &peedlly dispelled;
the objects wbich he described are certainly
In existence, and were found at Ills;
sarlik; and hi. descriptions, wheD stripped
of Lhe inferences and beliefs with wblcb bls
fancy bad mIngled and wrapped theflr,provcd
to be In substance correct.. • ,
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APPARITIONS IN BlUTISII COLU.MBIAAMONG THE INDIANS.
The British Columbia papers of Ibe 2~d ull.,
which' arrived here y.sterday, contain an RC'
coun~ of 8 singular apparition at Medakadab.
}~ourteen 'years .ago a mission was atart(!d
there amoog the T.imshacn Indians by Mr,
William Duncan, uud .. r the auspice. of tb.
Churd by Re ... Mr. Collinson and
Rev. Mr. lIall, aleo Churcb.of 'England mlsslonaries.
MeUskatlab is an inhospitable
spot. A woy up there, above the lIfty-founh
parallel of )Qtitud., tbe cliniale will not admit
of ·agriculturv be-ing ~.J:hmsivcly engaged in.
WhcaL cannot I", brou~ht 10 maturity. I'.,.
lal"". and other root crops •• em In grow protty
welL· to'onnerly ti, .. Indians of tb. T.imshacn
nation offered human sHcritl"!""8, and it is eaid
that th.ial80 indulged in cannibalistic proeliviti....
It would scem, howev.r, that tbey
confined their eating of human fl •• h to their'
"medicine u feativa), and ev!-!'u then no one
ever I!!BW them do more than, while engag-cd
io the 'h~monical tit,es which W~ customary
0,0 tt."sc OCClUsions, ml!reiy bite it. 'rh4! vic ..
ti.trlB aI, t.he.e ,c~lcbralions "'er" ,mclI,bers of
other tribes wbolU·lbey bad" eDslay.d., Not
. only are Ihe loaching .n,1 inftuenc. of Mr.
Duncan having tho dbct of makinr. the In-
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