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case Mr. Conklin was ignorant of Welsh, and it might al- 
mjrmaUtatP h ° ther language > his d ^ion wherfin his 
noima 1 state being most irregular. He was almost unedu- 
fnflnp’n an 1 . ha i d been a common saiIor '> but when under 
spelt 11S anguage was free > and the words correftly 
R. M. N. appears to think that the “ new revelations " are 
mischievous in character, and by possibility will subvert 
every existing order of things, as he says— 
“ Cast on all things surest, brightest, best, 
Doubt, insecurity, and astonishment.” 
This is far from my idea, for they give an assurance and 
reality, much wanted, which no other manifestation could 
satisfy ; they afford evidence of other intelligences than 
t lose existing m the world’s life, and present almost tangibly 
those ol a world to come. I quite agree with R. M. N. 
that theie is much to learn and probably much to gain, and, 
urther, that the scientific world has proved itself most un- 
scientific in ignoring presentments because they do not 
accord with the assumptions of the scientific mind. 
Whether Science and Spiritualism will ever harmonise 
there is much room to doubt. Science has its purview of 
phenomena with the rigid requirement of exadf law - but of 
the inner movements of that interior something which all 
men possess, developed or undeveloped, of its laws they 
know nothing. The Christian Church has existed for nearly 
two thousand years, and finds the World more ignorant of 
and unbelieving in Spiritual matters than it was on its in- 
stitution. Exactly what occurred in the early Church was 
experienced in the Spiritual movement. The Church con- 
tained an idealism which, rightly diredted, would have 
advanced the human race. Spiritualism, on the other hand 
without idealisation, without dogma, presents its array of 
fadts which properly considered would lead to the same end. 
No, Science and theology are both in arms. Science resists 
because there are no apparent laws by which the movement 
can be diredted or controlled : Theology rejedts the friend 
which would lead to the development of those truths of 
which it considers itself the patron and promoter. 
. If Spiritualism, or the manifestations so called, were 
isolated fadts, and confined to one family or to one nation, 
a halt might be made ; but when America, Europe, and 
Asia present the same evidences, it then becomes a common 
question, 
