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60 SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST. '<br />
nevertheless quite surprllled a few weeks<br />
since to learn that two eminent, and distloinJohed<br />
Buddhiots bad sailed from Ceylon<br />
to Jo'ro.oce.<br />
Wby?.,for what purpese had<br />
they gone? w .... the cOmmon inqul.,. None<br />
of theso journalists seem to bBve been Cndowed<br />
with the gift of Interpretation.', Let<br />
me ,help them. Inqulrtng of a celebrated<br />
priest at lhe Uuddhist College, lloamed that<br />
the special work of one was to teach the<br />
I'allianguago in a French University; while<br />
the othor was to devote hlm"elf in a quiet<br />
, way to mission work. Both knowillg Uuddh<br />
.18m to be a much older, ze,doWily believe It,<br />
also to be a much pure!" and diviner sy.tem<br />
of religion U,an Christianity. I.earned<br />
priesta among tb"w go further, alld boldly<br />
affirm that all wbleb i. good alld true III the<br />
Jetter of Chri8tianity was borrowed from<br />
Buddhism. Believing this, as they conscielltiouely<br />
dQ, an(l belllli fired \yith aomothhlG of<br />
the martYNplrit, tlley aie desirous that<br />
France, and all west em , nations, should<br />
share,ln Its heavenly and saving benefits.<br />
SPONT Al'IEOIIII UiCNEaATlON. 'I'ror. Virchow,<br />
of BerUu says In Nature, Nov. 29:<br />
.. All fossil type of' a lower bum an developmenlo<br />
Is absolutely wantiog; ODe f088i1 monkey,skull,<br />
or man-ape skull, wblch maUy belonged<br />
to a human proprietor. haS ncver<br />
been found. lVe cannot teach, Ule cannot'<br />
designate' .t asa rellelalion of science, that<br />
man descends/rom the ape, qr from anll olher<br />
animal." (Author'S itaJiCII). Ho aloo says:<br />
"Nobody has even aeen spontaneous generation<br />
occurri,ng In reality" and everyone wbo<br />
maintained that he had seeu' It, has been re<br />
futA!d, not by the tlleologlans Indeed, but by<br />
, naturalists." '<br />
A report of the qbsoqules of D. A. F.ddy,<br />
Esq., late of Cleveland, OWo, wUl be fouud<br />
In r. p. j. IWd b. 1. feb 9.<br />
DEFINlT10NS. In recent disc 1S910n8 some<br />
uasllli dE'6l1iUons have been given. Jo'orco<br />
Is capacity of motion. Enel'gl Is capaclly<br />
for dolug work. ('bange I'; a Bum of motion..<br />
Jo'rederic Harrison says soul Is tho<br />
cJmbl""d f:u:uIUe. of the li.i.9 organIsm;<br />
l.onl m",,;;fonl says soul Is tho ~nsciouB belug<br />
wbieb eacb man call him,e1f. :Madam<br />
l!Iavabky says the so1l1 is<strong>com</strong>loOsed of ner_<br />
vous fluid and atma.;pJieric ellle! '. neallty I.<br />
persistence Irl't'Speclivo of paJ1lclllar condl·<br />
tions. Organization is life equllll.rating gravi·<br />
t~ and r"pulsion, or the ln'ler au, 1 dlslntergra<br />
. ting forces. In cosmic tivo)utior , nn St!ews to<br />
be integration; lllorgaflie evolu .1011, tile pbenomelll.<br />
of illtcgration and dis lolutioll sepm<br />
aCting togetb~r. I,aw; Miss ~ meox deflues<br />
a .latement of coll_tant relalio 118 posited by<br />
the Dature of thlugs.<br />
• ORGANIZATION. It i. proposed to effect<br />
tbo organlzatlon, or SpiritUal sts upon the<br />
rcpre.olltatlve system, by sendug delegates<br />
from Btate circles 10 a central (Ollvention, or<br />
congl'ea., whlcb shall perfect tie plan of ulIllleation.<br />
Nolhlng could be bel ter for tbe intensts<br />
of spiritualism eventual!;" atld nothing<br />
is more uccessary for Its inllneC ~ate and rapid<br />
a:dvimcement. BuL, wbat Isto;)8 the d .. Ouite<br />
TSOUGU Mies Harriet Martineau, the<br />
late deceased exponent at tbe Positive I'hI-<br />
1080pby 111 l-:ngland, denied a living eutlty<br />
after d~.atb, !.bE' constitution of be~ mind was<br />
plan of organization?<br />
so unblll$ed by ber own views !.bat Rho was<br />
able to Bay: "If 1 find myself conscious after<br />
the lapse of Ufe,-it will be' all right, of<br />
coune." If ber seu,te mind bad investigated<br />
the facts of splrltuaUstic science to the extent,<br />
that It did the proofs of posiUvism, how<br />
even and steady wo'uld sho have bold the<br />
scales of judgmeutl<br />
WllI the congress<br />
meet to write out a creed, an 1 lay down a<br />
form of worship, in response '.0 tbe behests<br />
of the religious .eniiment in Spiritualism;<br />
cir to provide lIIeans lor the plomulgation of<br />
spiritualistic facts, by tbe d.,.elopment 0<br />
mediuDlB and tbe support 01 a speCiali .. d<br />
press?<br />
It would seem tbat!.be ono •• bject, beyond<br />
.ill o!.ben of tbe snpremesl Iml ortance, is tho<br />
positive demolUltration of the future exisf,-'<br />
ence to Individual Inquiry. rbls ooce af,- ,<br />
talaed, eacb Individual milld. should be<br />
allowed to draw its own COocl\ slouB .... to the<br />
qbsenance of the duUes aud r ,Iationa wbleb<br />
follow on such dcmouotration,-Com.<br />
Plfllckometl7l.<br />
It was In 1841 'that Profess)f B~chauan'8<br />
attention Was dlreeted to tbe faet that ce ....<br />
tain sensitive persons could I eel !.be wlluenee<br />
by touch from' varioll! metals, and<br />
describe !.bem without hav: ng been pre-.<br />
,iously blformcd of !.be nature of !.be substance.<br />
In a 'class at ble n ,edical school,<br />
nearly one-half of all who tried tbe esperiment<br />
dptected the luftuence < I medicines as<br />
distinctly as if they bad been 1 asted, by bold-
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