SPIRITUALISM AND MEN OF SCIENCE Lord Brougham and Sir David Brewster many years ago had a séance with Mr. Home. Ever, facility was given them for investigation; they witnessed some remarkable manifestations, and deeply impressed, parted with Mr. Home on the most friendly terms. Some little time afterwards Brewster, finding that he was much laughed a for his testimony, began gradually to back out of his first position, and to say that possibly trickery was at the root of the manifestations. This led to angry letters in the newspapers. Full par ticulars are published in Mr. Home's Incidents of My Life. Lord Brougham did not support Brews ter in his later assertions. Sir J. Emerson Tennant once invited Faraday to a séance at which Mr. Home was to be the medium. Faraday wrote and asked for a pro gramme of the manifestations, and as nobody knows beforehand what will take place at a circle any more than the details of an expected star shower can be given in advance, it was not pos sible to comply with his demand. Faraday also required an answer to the following questions, among others, before attending: “Would he [Mr. Home] be glad if their [the manifesta tion's] delusive character were established and exposed, and would he gladly help to expose it, or would he be annoyed and personally offended? [The italics in this sentence are not in the original.] “Does he consider the effects natural or supernatural? If natural, what are the laws which govern them? or does he think that they are not subject to laws? If supernatural, does he suppose them to be miracles, of the work of spirits? If the work of spirits, would an insult to the spirits be considered as an insult to himself?" Mr. Home took no notice of the above insults, and, it is believed, never wrote Faraday in the first instance, or took any notice of him whatever. He never even saw his letters. Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., in a note dated May 8, 1868, commenting upon Faraday's letter just mentioned, wrote: “I hold myself in readiness to witness and investigate in the spirit of the foregoing letter [of Faraday's], such phenomena as Mr. Home may wish to reveal to me during the month of June." A few days previously Mr. Home had written in the Pall Mall Gazette: “It will give me pleasure to meet Professor Tyndall and any two gentlemen he shall designate. On my side I shall have at least two gentlemen whose names and position place them above the suspicion of aiding or abetting a fraud. I will meet Professor Tyndall and these gentlemen when and where they please, and under such circumstances as they may decide on. I must only crave their paticnce if nothing should occur at the first, or even the second, séance." From that day to this Dr. Tyndall has not accepted the above invitation. Possibly it would be no usc if he did, for Mr. Home is like a sens tive plant, which is one reason why he is so pliant in the hands of spirits, and the presence of any body he does not like interferes seriously with the very wonderful manifestations which we have seen take place in his presence. Dr. Tyndall's best plan, if he desire to gain knowledge, is to invite some medium, who gets common violent physical manifestations, to meet him at the Royal Institution. These great errors on the part of Faraday and Tyndall are here put on record with regret, for men of their stamp deserve higher honours at the hands of a nation than any others whatever; their intellectual standing is of the very noblest order but, from a psychological point of view, their letters show them to be imperfect. Faraday is now im a position to know and repent of his errors. As for Dr. Tyndall, assuming that the dwellers in the spirit land wish to and know how to commu nicate with men, a glimmering of a great idea may at last get inside his head, namely, that it is just possible that the hosts of heaven may go on with their work without asking his consent. However, we believe him to be very honourable and fearless and think that when he knows the facts to be true hè will go behind the Royal Institution table and say so publicly. A demand for a programme where no programme can be given, and the writing of supercilious letters in reply to civil invitations, amounts prac tically to a retusal to observe facts. Dr. Tyndall, aud men who act like lim, are recommended to bear in mind the following words of Galileo : “Oh. my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have our hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the prin cipal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? What shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly ; to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa, labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations to charm the planets out of the sky!" Several eminent members of the Royal Society and of the Institution of Civil Engineers, have recently been privately investigating Spiritualism, and know it to be true. Till they choose to attach their names publicly to an unpopular truth, it is not our business to do it for them, so names must be withheld. A little society known as the Dialectical Society, is now investigating Spiritualism. It number among its members many shrewd and intelligent men, belonging chiefly to the legal and medical professions. Spiritualists watch its proceedings with a moderate amount of interest; nothing that any man or body of men may say or do can alter the established phenomena aud laws of nature.