knows as little about as of electricity or imponderables. But such an argument, if argument it can be called, is one of the most fallacious that ever was advanced. Electricity is a fact; we know its powers and its properties, how to produce it and how to direct it; but an endeavour to ascertain exactly what it is, brings us to the same point as an inquiry into what we are; in other words, our investigation is stopped, because we can know nothing of first causes while we remain finite beings. Now, in what respect is table-turning fact? Mrs. Crowe says she has " seen tables move without any hand touching them." Of course we are not in a position even to hint a contradiction; but we cannot resist a suspicion that on these occasions Mrs. Crowe was not in good health, and was at the mercy of a morbid excitement of the nerves. She tells us to investigate "the phenomena called spirit-rapping and table-turning," and is very severe on the "smart young men who were glorious at having outwitted the medium, and disturbed all the conditions under which the phenomena could be elicited." We have investigated both the rapping and the turning, and found nothing but a miserable delusion. The seeker knows where to find and how to produce electricity and galvanism; but does he know where to find and how to produce spiritual manifestations? We declare that he does not. It is idle in these "believers" to assign such a power to any particular individuals to the exclusion of all the thinking part of mankind. The wise are not so to be taken in. Spiritualists boast that their creed is spreading: it may be so, and for a time, probably, it will continue to spread; but amongst whom? Why, according to Mrs. Crowe herself, amongst "ignorant men and weak women, who have succeeded in obtaining results which the scientific world had failed to discover." The admission is unfortunate. Learned and thoughtful men, who, with an earnest desire to dispel a delusion under which some were labouring, have stooped to its causes, and have given the result to the world, are not likely now to follow in the track of the ignorant and the weak, however bitterly the cleverest of the "spiritual" advocates may rate them for declining to re-commence the discussion.

The same faint nonsense by which mesmeric clairvoyants endeavour to excuse their manifold features, is always resorted to by spiritualists in the like predicament-namely, that the presence of sceptics disturbs the conditions under which the phenomena are elicited." Why should this be so? To convert a sceptic would be a real triumph; to convert, if it can be so called, a thousand mere idle acquiescers in any wonder, is a miserable victory not worth that over a single thinking man who resolutely refuses belief till conviction is forced on him. And where are such proselytes to be found? The spiritualists admit that there are none amongst them, because, they say, the "presence of sceptics disturbs the conditions under which the phenomena are elicited." This is fatal. The great Creator does not suppress a truth because doubters are at hand. If it be His will that disembodied man should revisit this earth, and proclaim some fact to the living he would make that will clearly known. If it be His will that a mesmeric clairvoyant should know more of the great mysteries than is vouchsafed to human kind in its normal state, and that such knowledge should be for the good, spiritual or temporal, of man, that clairvoyant would announce some great truth and send it living into the world. Instead of this, we see trickery so low that the veriest mountebanks would scorn to use it.

These "spiritual manifestations" have done harm in the world, and they are still working some evil; the delusion has spread like a rank epidemic, seizing on the mind and blighting it; and we therefore simply discharge a duty to the public in showing how weak are the arguments in its favour which the most intellectual of its converts can adduce.

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