‘I have already told you what I think of spiritualism and spiritualistic manifestations. I believe my opinion is that of all educated men.’
‘Spiritualism, as commonly understood, is one thing, sir,’ returned the Professor quietly; ‘spiritualistic materialism, or solar science, is another. Our creed, sir, like your own, is the destruction of supernaturalism. If you will permit me once more to quote our sublime Bard, he sings as follows:—
All things abide in Nature; Form and Soul,
Matter and Thought, Function, Desire, and Dream,
Evolve within her ever-heaving breast;
“Within her, we subsist; beyond and o’er her
Is naught hut Chaos and primaeval Night.
The Shadow of that Night for centuries
Projected Man’s phantasmic Deity,
Formless, fantastic, hideous, and unreal;