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laws (viz., the Decalogue) and egotistic 

 institutions. But whether he lived or 

 not," the lively professor paradoxically 

 remarks, "is a question of no importance, 

 for he lives in the ( Pantheon of Progress, 7 

 together with Jesus Christ, of whom too 

 little is really known for an honest man. 

 to affirm any thing as positively true." 



In his Principles of Nature, the learned 

 professor tells his readers that it is by 

 spiritualism that he has acquired his amaz- 

 ing stock of knowledge. " I pass," he says, 

 " from the body with a desire for a 

 particular kind of information. This 

 desire attracts the particular kind o 

 information from all other things, and 

 causes it to flow into the mind ; " and 

 he adds, with natural pride, as lifting him 

 above ordinary professors like Huxley 

 or Haeckel "I can converse with the 

 spirits distinctly, and learn from them 

 the peculiar impressions and affections 

 of their souls." 



The professor, thus taught by the spirits, 

 proceeds to instruct his fellow-creatures 



