A defence of modern spiritualism

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ALFRED R. WALLACE, F. R. S.,
AUTHOR OF “THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO,” “EXPLORATIONS ON THE AMAZON,” “THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION,” ETC., ETC.
WITH A PREFACE
BY EPES SARGENT.
SECOND THOUSAND.
BOSTON:
COLBY AND RICH,
9 Montgomery Place.
1874.
The signs are, that both the moral and the religious systems of the future will be greatly modified by the advance of science. They will be more and more conformed to the facts of nature; not only to the facts which a diligent Materialism, working in a single direction, has brought to light, but to the transcendent facts which Modern Spiritualism has restored and proved. The one order of facts is incomplete without the other; and Materialism is as surely doomed to be encircled and transfigured by the wider horizon of Spiritualism, as the Ptolemaic system of the universe was doomed to be superseded by the Copernican.