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as feasible and in point to deny the existence of mind 
because it cannot be put in a crucible and brought out a 
thought, as to deny design in Nature. When we look at a 
steam-engine and see the mighty results compassed, — the 
crushing power of the avalanche, or the tap gentle as the 
sighing of a zephyr, —no one thinks of the mind of 
the designer and the intelligence by which the almost 
living machine is produced, but without which none of the 
results witnessed could have been produced. So is it the 
theoretical scientist looks on so-called natural phenomena \ 
he looks only to results. The designer of the steam- 
machine is known, and if enquired for he cannot be 
ignored, and the effects produced by the machine remain 
but effects. How small, indeed, when placed in contrast 
with the operations of Nature ! It is indeed a poor logic 
which sees and profits by effects, and then denies the 
intelligence by which they were produced. Spiritualism 
discloses an occult power. What is its predicate, and where 
shall it stop ? 
The one result which the manifestations have produced 
(whatever more they may have done) is their proof of the 
existence of an occult world, at present beyond the reach of 
scientific investigation, of which the once denizens of this 
world are the inhabitants, and who have the power (regulated 
by certain conditions) of communication with beings of this 
life. The all (as I understand it) that Spiritualism claims 
to teach is the deathless life of the soul. Whatever other 
inferences its professors and believers please to draw from 
the manifestations are entirely matters for their own reason 
and faith. Spiritualism can no more harmonise with 
Science than Science can harmonise with Religion, for 
each have separate domains and move in separate direc- 
tions : the one is casual (Science and Theology), the other 
causal (Morals and Faith). 
