Revelations of Spiritualism.
Referring to the new developments in Spiritualism the Independent says:— “The most melancholy thing about the spectral world, as revealed to us by Mr. Hyslop and Dr. Hodgson, is that none of its shadowy inhabitants appear to have any useful or agreeable occupation of their own—occupations commensurate with their high estate. The glory of the universe is theirs, theirs is the music of the spheres, yet they swarm into a medium’s squalid parlor, holding ‘amiable disquisitions,’ and talking the saddest of sad twaddle at her behest. Gone is the majesty and sullied is the holiness of death.” And that is a fair setting forth of the whole immortal-soul theory and the delusions which have sprung from it, all of which are based upon that ancient lie, “Ye shall not surely die.” The author may be found by the context.