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comparatively with the hundred millions of solar systems, and the inconceivable **•"
extent of the space which encompasses them, and which falls within the domain of
one common Deity—Our actions dependent, under God, on organization, education,
and the extent to which we are tempted extraneously—On probation—World
least moral when the Christian church had most sway—Honour and mercantile
credit more trusted than religion.
Virtue due more to the heart than to sectarianism.
Bigotry acts like an evil spirit—Progress of literature and science in Arabia,
under the Mohammedan pontiffs, called caliphs • 206
Additional Corroborative Evidence op the Existence op Spirits.—The opinions
of MM. de Mirville and Gasparin on Table Turning and Mediums, (considered
in relation to theology and physics,) examined by the Abbot Almignana, doctor of
the common law, theologian, &c.—Mechanical movements without contact, by Mr.
Isaac Rehn, President of the Harmonial Society, Philadelphia,—Communication
from J. M. Kennedy, Esq.—Communication from Wm. West, Esq.—Koons's Establishment—Communications
from Joseph Hazard, Esq.—A visit to the Spiritualists
of Ohio—Letter from John Gage—The home of the mediums, and the haunts of the
spirits—What they did, said, and wrote—The house of the Spiritualists—Presence
of electricity—The room where the spirits manifest their power—The furniture
and occupants—The manifestations commence—The spirits play on drums, harps,
French horns, accordeons, and tamborines—The manifestations continue, and the
head spirit writes a communication—The spirit's letter—Concluding remarks—An
evening at Koons's spirit room, by Charles Partridge, Esq., New York—Experience
of the Hon. N. P. Tallmadge—Letter from Mr. D. H. Hume—Spiritualism in London—Lord
Brougham with the spirits—Evidence afforded by the Rev. J. B. Ferguson—An
exposition of views respecting the principal facts, causes, and peculiarities
involved in spiritual manifestations ; together with interesting phenomenal
statements and communications, by Adin Ballou—Testimony of the Hon. J. W.
Edmonds—Testimony of Henry Lloyd Garrison.—Testimony of Mr. and Mrs.
Newton—Testimony of members of the New York circle—Testimony of the Rev.
D. F. Goddard, Boston—Manifestations at Stratford, Connecticut, in the house of
the Rev. Eliakim Phelps, D.D.—Remarkable exhibitions of power—Singular occurrences—Image-making—Destruction
of furniture—Incendiary spirits—The
spirits identified—Unhappy spirits, from the remembrance of wrong done in this
world—Wrong doing revealed—Directions given for restoring ill-gotten gains
Discontinuance of the manifestations—Idea of the existence of a spiritual sun,
and a vital spiritual oxygen, found to exist, independently, in the mind of a muchesteemed
author 273
Op Matter, Mind, and Spirit.— Of matter— Strictures on a speculation by Farraday
respecting the nature of matter—On Whewell's demonstration that all matter
is heavy—Additional remarks on the speculation of Farraday and Exley, above
noticed—Of mundane, ethereal, and ponderable matter, in their chemical relations
—Suggestions of Massotti, respecting the nature of matter—On electro-polarity as
the cause of electrical phenomena/—Of mind, as existing independently, and as distinguished
from matter—Of spirit independently, or as distinguished from mind
and matter—Of the soul, as distinguished from mind and matter—On the odic, or
odylic force 363
Religious Errors op Mr. Mahan.—Proposition of Mr. Mahan—Of the origin of
the Books of Moses no higher evidence exists, according to the testimony of the
Bible itself, than that of an obscure priest and a fanatical king—Scriptural account
of the finding of the Books of Moses by Hilkiah, the high-priest—Account
of the finding of the Books of Moses, by Josephus—Lf the Pentateuch had been
previously known to the Jews, it is incredible that it could have become obsolete
and forgotten prior to the alleged discovery of it in the temple in the reign of
Josiah—Great importance attached to a belief in immortality by Cyrus the Great,