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rich or poor, who are scrofulous, phthisical, syphilitic, or 
who show any tendency to lunacy ? Yet we do not find, in 
the work before us, any hint of this kind. We flatly deny 
that any man or woman can have the right to multiply 
disease and debility. Those persons will scarcely agree with 
us who are prepared to sacrifice the well-being of the com- 
munity to that of the individual. 
II. RELATIONS BETWEEN SPIRITUALISM AND 
SCIENCE: 
MR. A. R. WALLACE AND R. M. N. 
By the Author of “ Scientific Materialism.” 
“ Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sedl, creed, or institution 
that fears investigation openly manifests its own error.” 
Andrew Jackson Davis’s Motto. 
(Concluded from page 464.) 
ERSONS of rank and education have witnessed 
manifestations, and have given evidence of the truth 
of the facts. Professor Hare in America, and Mr. 
Crookes in England, applied the most delicate tests, and 
proved (in what might be called the minor physical mani- 
festations) that there was no possible trick in the present- 
ments they tested. What was the treatment they received ? 
And then, in the face of such gross scandals, to talk of 
scientific investigations and other scientific, &c., is the 
merest irony. 
As to the moral aspects of Spiritualism, so far as I have 
been able to trace the facts, they have had the purest and 
best results. I witnessed the phenomena in America, on 
its outbreak there. It is foreign to my purpose to enter into 
a defence of Spiritualism, to show the good it has done, and 
the benefits and blessings it scattered broadcast. I could 
state fadls and name names where, in consequence of wit- 
nessing the manifestations, the characters of men have 
changed, and the result has been most beneficial. This 
