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The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently 

 borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of supersti- 

 tion, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental 

 soil unfit for its cultivation. When science appeals to 

 uniform experience, the spiritualist will retort, ' How 

 do you know that a uniform experience will continue 

 uniform? You tell me that the sun has risen for six 

 thousand years: that is no proof that it will rise to- 

 morrow; within the next twelve hours it may be puffed 

 out by the Almighty.' Taking this ground, a man 

 may maintain the story of ' Jack and the Beanstalk ' in 

 the face of all the science in the world. You urge, in 

 vain, that science has given us all the knowledge of 

 the universe which we now possess, while spiritualism 

 has added nothing to that knowledge. The drugged 

 soul is beyond the reach of reason. It is in vain that 

 impostors are exposed, and the special demon cast out. 

 He has but slightly to change his shape, return to his 

 house, and find it ' empty, swept, and garnished.' 



Since the time when the foregoing remarks were 

 written I have been more than once among the spirits, 

 at their own invitation. They do not improve on ac- 

 quaintance. Surely no baser delusion ever obtained 

 dominance over the weak mind of man. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



