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Tim OTIll!.'n SIDE. WllO .. U;E COMl'A'TENT WITNESSES? '13
of Pierre Cnzot, an "pileptie, .1Iperhnen!ed 8cions or unconscioWl cerebrul action (nnl_
011 rur six m" .. Ul. 111 .me or tbe buspllals of cerebral action can litl b .... vy bodies wlUlout
]>aris, In whom the conoul.lu"8 Were sue- bands) breaks duwn III view of Lbe more lmceed.d
by trallce, III whieb colldl:lou he fre-. portanl seriu. "lIorbld eerebral action may
qllt'ntly foretold tbe huur alld moment when causo ils victim to see pbantoms, ·bnt eaunol
bb next attack would occur, wbicb. was aI- endue him witb Lbe power of mahing othera
. way. verified to tbe m;'meut; and be •..ates .ee tbem." lie gives bl. own view of the
that the committee reporting !be correlatillg Intelligence, wby
tory passed vl ... ally before him; and are we the ncce.",Uy of postulating dl.order In Ibe
theu to be toM tbot tbl. exerci.e of a facultY nervous system l' . Mr., Jo'airOeld, blro.elf, Is
worklllg to Inlumgeut end. i. a stage of "Ia... UC Ibe ophilo· .. tbat Z.cbokke'. esse obonld
vated epllepsy?H A. 10 the lady mentioIJed remuve the pbenomena, of wblcb It Is so reo
In tbe above corte.pondoneD, sbe bas lIever lharkahlQ lUI 'hl.tRuce, "froID Ihe clrele of
bad by."'rla or epJlepUCunq convail.lolls, aud oplrituall.tic specuiatloll to tloat of .clentific
wso lIevcrln the state known as trSlICo; while p..ycllolugy." And tbl. I. cerlalnly wbat tbe
ber mantal cOIlS.ltulioll Is knuwlI to all her more roree of evente Is sluwly but 8u""ly doacquaintances
to be of tilt! firme., charact Cacta being demonstrated. thana
lIr. Fairfield, an oppoucnt of 15plrltuaUbln, will deservedly bo his wbo shall "".Ign Ihem
opeaklng ·of Ihe two series of spiritualistic· Ib.lr true value among. the treasures of
pbenomena, 'the mental and the pby.lcal, buman ku"wledge.
oay. tbat the theory th.at they are due to cou' I . .
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NOTlUNG NEW.
,
GEORGE WE.Yl"Z.
AN OBJECTION TOSPllUT(1ALlSM ANSWERED.
BY DUDSON TUTTLE:;
There can be nothing new In tbe sense of On tbe contrary tbe .tacts . 01 to-day have
creation, rur to suppose thaI anything absD- been always facta, and Splrltuall.m pene-·
lu",l, new should occur; would be to suppose Irates like a goillen tbread the aUllals of hls~
.ometblllg could be created out of uothing. tory.· When we prov. a bUlnan being pu,
Jo:'.ry event I. correlated with wbat goes be' .e.. ed of an IlIllbortal spirit now, we prove
fore and comes aiter. No now elemellts of all hUIDBD belugs Imlllortal, aud tbat Ihey
.ub"tance Or Corce ; no new method of pro- have boenln tbe p.... Tb. mo.t illustrious
cellure kuown .._ law; no new attribute or men of p ... t agoa were SphlluaU.ts, and
principle can be· c .... ated or arise. Tbe pres' drank draugbts uf In8plratlon from the lount
ent rests on alld is tbe 'rultlon of the pas.. oC luoplralion. Brahma, Bnddba, Pythago­
'Nature Ia etenla), not In special expr&o$lons, ras, Socrates, Plain, Cicero, Marcus Aurebut
In the sum of all expresslolls and pos.l- lJus, sucb is tbe grand palenllty of splrilual
billlie8; a ullity composed ul Infinite diver- heroo., and &boUld we not be wilhug to be
shy. Hence alacL In this unity 19a fact fur called 1001. In 'such compSlIY? .
all time and· space. Whatever is true, I. Tbe ·old Catbollc definition of !nuh Is,
eteri,ally true. and the same laws sound tbe wbat bas been believed In all times, in all
the depLbs oC Ibe univerae, "'!!1. reaci! Its elll- places, by all mell : always, sUlpe.!i!!!!>,b., ,,_.:~
Pelion:., ....., .: • .. ,. .,., -- ",'-,. -everybodY. SplrliuaU'ni I. ouch·' a catholic
Wheu It Is said Spiritualism brings no new trutb; always e~erywbere believed, and In
truths into the world. we· &dmlL, for that tbl. becomes tbe nnhereal religluus faith.
_ould be Impo .. lble. Trulh Is neither l";W Jo'rom the cave· maD of the ante·dlluvlan age
Dor olt!. H know. DO paSt, preseot 9r future. to the present ; from Ill. rude PQtagou\an