The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-06-13
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We find in the Daily New York Herald
detailed account of the action Of the Con
yention of Spiritualists recently assembled
in that city. We look with hopeful inter-
est upon every movement designed to ele-
vato the moral and social condition of man.
What Spiritualism requires of its believers
we do not know. We apprehend that it
has no settled and definite creed but is
greatly modified by the peculiarities Of the
individual receiving it. But it his be-
| como great power in our land. Many
earnest and true men advocate its claim
and ascert its prominence over the old
er forms Of religious faith. While we do
not accept all they teach, we are willing
to give them fair hearing. The
honest and impartial man never shrinks
from the investigation Of any principle Of
morals and religion, but his cry is like
that of the dying Goethe, 'sight, more
Luz w CllD SoliN SlbiOI.
We 20 nor pE5l ose 70 rlsysse'cs' ;sfs vrle
speeches, but merely to give some ex-
tracts from one or two of them, to show
our readers in what direction thought is
tending. One of the secretaries, Mr.. Z.
S. Sheldon read a paper, communicated
by spirits on ga new order of existences."
Everything has within itself to some
extent life, activity. All things are tend
ing upward passing into finer conditions.
Minerals, vegetables, animals, human be-
ings, are but consequences-tha is, con
dluons are favorable; and these are
generated into form. Now, the ag-
ricuIturalist knows that he can take a
strawberry from its rude condition, place
it in other sol with favorable surround
ings, and although it is yet strawberry,
yet it is improved in quality. Everybody
knows that nearly all the fruits can be
improved by an intelligent ponlologist;
everybody knows that ANIMALS especially
those used for domestic purposes-can be
cultivated, improved, rendered more
beautiful, dociie, and consequently more
useful. #, then, it be possible to improve
vegetables, aud the lower animals, who
shall say it is impossible to improve man
IS man an exception to all below and
around him is he introduced to this
sphere perfect being, OF is this but a ru-
dimental state, and IS he placed here that
be may grow, be cultivated, improved,
and be prepared for transportation to
higher sphere? Undoubtedly man is ca
pable of progression to an extent far be-
yond that which has been comprehcnded.
Up to this hour little or no attention has
been turned to human chemistry, to phil
osophic man culture. Vegetation has
been improved, elaborate works written
thereon animals are Of q vastly finer charac-
ter than appeared in former age; these
are exhibited, inspected, inquiries are
made in regard to the the rearinc md
care of these forms Of existence. Sup
pose, then, fine child were placed on
exhibition, its form and all its parts are
examined with as much freedom as one
would inspect lower animal. The child
is seen to be fine specimen. What OBJ
lection can there be to instituting inquiries
in regard to that product? Why should
not the progenitors be present, inspected,
their forms considered, their complexions
observed, the inter-blendings of their
hairs, the color of their eyes, the size and
symmetry Of their limbs, &c.
The paper here goes into particulars
which we do not care to reprint It says:
"spirtuaism is not squeamish. 1t comes
to the inspection Of subjects of this char
acter, with as much freedom as the pom
ologlst shall inspect his orchard
After advocating at length the stud
of human chemistry, the writer breaks out
IN the following strain Of prophecy.
$50, at a distant day there will appear
on this planet not only fine humans but
super humans; they viii have all the pow
els and faculties Of the human, and there
will be certain things superadded, throw
ing the humans comparatively in the
shade, and Jet these superhumans could
not have appeared, had not the humans
prepared the way