The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-21

POPULAR DFLusIoNs.-Men and women are crod.
uious animals. Other animals are wary and suspi-
cloas in proportion they are sagacious. But man
10 whom alone reason Is given. il distinguished by
his credulity. Scarcely any theory is too absurd.
any allegation too menstrous, any doctrines too
self-eontTodictcry, Or any practices too runous and
degrading, not TO find host Of believers. with
works according their faith. The worst consc-
quences OF this crcduhty sometimes entirely
Neied from the world sometimes they take form
ana substance anG deyelope themselves in organza-
tons. associations, and special communities. Per
hlIs the most GORGEOUS credulity known at this
day and heTc-aaout is that which places reliance
upon the spirit rappugs and but few olLes. Of any
day, have produced SO much mischief. This gla,ing
lposturo, for II is nothing else, has left in its
course domestic misery denloned reason. desolation
ahd death. Had we preserved all the Instances Of
these evil results Of tie deluson which have met
our eye m exchange papers, or otherwise como to
our knowledge, and were here to classify them as
above. the list would lie positively appalling
jny yesterday. the following came 80 us in tie ST
Louis Eucuing DeSgaich -
gentleman living n Illinois and known to many in
men and women u the highest iespoctGbility. Souc
ears ago his wife diec ami he living in the strong
ueipbraDce o. her love faithful good ge never
married During her life they1sere very happy. perhaps
ess tran The usual domestic Of narrIed life
at ended them; not Tie inst bitsh II suspicion
a''aenea io ht. gtod name But this Las been swept
away by the magnetic Juggling &c i medium who has
hoIne evidence from departed spirit that she
COED WIFE the rcyeled IN memory infuthrul MIN
through Der whole career. and that the children one
and al, irstmate Wholly under the influence Of
a convection that spiritual agency is liked fact. the
gentleman haS disiubcr his children common ba.
ards aud driven them from his heart wife memory
blasted, children shonorcd in their life happy
home made dos atc and fathers closing OF c
DEL ted dreadful in its loneliness ON what evidence
nothing.
This morning the Fitchburg Nc,rs mentions the
death OF n lady Mt Luenburg. auder circumstances
of sucA nature n leave little doubt that her death
was precipitated by prediction of certain spirit
rarlcrs that she would die within specified time.
Cases OF mental arrangement, induced by belief 10
the mpesture, are all too numerous while even high
intellucts have been tainted by It's influence. Add
70 these the radical but spacious inioelty which it
has fostered and diilused the mawksh transcenden
talsn which 1t has substituted for practical common
sense. and the Wild and basphemeas vagaries which
il pawDs upon the world revelations, while il re-
quliates the ouy and Divine revelation Of the Cos
pei, and ones heart aches ut the vision OF moral
pestilencc walking at noon-day. We may not lift
the curtain from domestic circles. or we mi ght tell
u the practical duties Of life neglected oi ial aud
iIaternal harmony interrupted. Of morbid curiosity
and OF wasted energies, OF mind crouching before
superstition and OF super sensitiyeness that finds
a supernatural agent in every sound and motion =
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