New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-07
sPIRITUALISM and SPIRITISN.

The Rev +. G.. Towne, in The Inder' enters
protest against the Of the good word spr'ua'''
by the class OF people whom he prefers W u'''e" "
spiritists. OF these last, he says: ..,..,
The popuar spriiism OF this country mas nuneLVSt
strength of rerhaps half million. An hngsn SIlse
who recently travelled through the counIS un "o
careful estimate cOuid count onH V"o, oonoes trne
,it ,,,l oi faith Judge Elmonds counts 1cOooOOo
aud Mr. Owen 10000; tsV s S sDirimalSts: and
WrTy naturally Judge Edmonds thinks mat ne mlgs
well throw in 5o0oO more as unconscious vi n
spirtualsts. There Is morning Nern'ious w "b.,r-
mate IN snch a count as this or true sprustS, per
sous who deal with mamsn"ns ts hnu NV conn 2 w
And no body believers has weaker or more uncertain
organic NE It's ministry Is cnes9 ana Tsa rar
mental and sensational petncoat a1alr m very Ecut r1
through female tTapccspeakCrs, or through men VINO
suggest by look and labo-s distressing doubts ~ TO the
sex OF their muruileS The aScrcuS% hSd u .'o O.
al this moment Is woman, diseased IN body ad nnu
almost to insanity %no U now oe Ere" 1--we Which
can be invented The Mormon delusien when authehc
evidence proves to have had Splritt origin, ana 10
be upheld now 10y eprust maiNe atone oHsrS pa'
alcl e. the average DEGRADATION OF organic slrlusm
though this last as even in Mormonsn, arc no sna
rcious 81 the miserable dcuSion which phenomenal
SpirituahSm" really is. SuCh persons. IN very great
numbers. have trud Spitism and rejected il, becoming
SprtuallSts. hut refusing Ia be Sprtsts: INC Ieal
sprt superstition is RAPIDLY losing what hoid u has
had upon respectable minds. and viii soon s,anu 49,
where NJ hClOugs-hN the side ~ tie Othor fOlluS "a
sourc ana low human eNlerlcrre exc, ytS 81 a,.
very curious and SonctimeS very uSelu exam -
normal condition made 10 confer exceptional ana i''
prcteTnatuIal service, -- -, .ofo,oo
teach as OF the place ~ dealing wFh splltS' b1'l
medicine and mental philosophy advise Us 10 CtslTo u
sound mind IA e sound body. And the knoWIcdSc OF
savage man furnished 10y such work ms IYiors Ffl.
itiyc Culture recently published in London SHOWS ldJ
nj that low level of culture the Spt method he's been
universal Disturbance OF normal ply seal condi onS Is
a rendition OF the Spii,ist method. Decided disease
comnoulv fayors the method savage history atteNts
the same fact. and show. NEor and prevalence 90
III ol unknown m even the modern revival OF 10
n cannot be- therefore, that Stlitsm is TO h" the
method Of the future, is 10 havo any place anon;
r,SpsctalIr methods, save in very cNctluoual lh-
stance, Thu, opinion we give after reading tue II ~.
Robert Dale owens NV work, The DGbat io'e iHhi
IFtWcrn THIS World and tie NcN" i'm which lac argues
ior SPIN sin as Che last and best method @: i@lh ana
tne perfection oi Chr ,,iau enlightenment. We to'N Uu
the Wu,. with considerable expectation, ana Nseu as
much pains as Vos oe to ind good case, hut 20 No lU
ru,c An'urcpics,lne disgust crow upon Us as we uI
and W. ia down fIa volume with tie dctsrWL:t'''
never 10 ln''c auot'I. effort 10 tgd good mn Sptsb
All the cool therC i, is I'm tho sp.rtJui>m pure .io
simple winch h.s no necessary connection Win spirit
su IuG g. VIII ch spi,itsm Is lar more likely TO be
liuCrafc. tlGl q help