The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-01-14

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of earlier and lower culture. It annihi-
lates all the progress of eighteen cen.
turtles. and accepts.of an old, exploded
spiritual system. Greece aud Rome
went through with it and rejected it as
worthless. The sitting process of Geo.
tnries killed it, and hence we say that
Spiritualism is an anachronisn. 1t is q
ghost dragged out of the tombs of the
past. aud it should be permitted TO re.
turn aud rest in undisturbed repose.
Fourth: To the disclosures of Spirit.
ualism. These disclosures always take
their tone from the cultnre or character
OF those composing the circles; not
from that of the supposed spirit COM
uunicating with them. The circle de-
termines the style. A low circle will
extort low answers from Milton or
Shakespeare. and high circle high an
swers. and the same circle reveals but
one style for all spirits. Aud then we
have no evidence that the spirits ever
present knowledge thas is outside of
the knowledge or opinion or con-
| lectures of some one in the circle. The
spirits are dumb, aud can guess no
| better than others concerning events
that are unknown to any 10 the circle.
Now, if these responses come from
spirits. why is it that they cannot com.
municate knowledge outside of the
circle as we'll as in it? Why is it that
when they disclose secret information
they copy the mistakes and pecniiari-
ties of those composing the circle?
| Surely thsy must be Tremendously ignor-
ant spirits who cannot transcend the
marrow limits of the little circle. defy
any one to wade through the accamu-
lated mass of Spiritualistic literature
and find one new idea, principle or dis
covery. Its discoveries, therefore,
point to the circle, instead of spirits. as
the source of its phenomena. hence we
reject'it.
F.fth: We Object again because it is
| misnane1. II falsely calls itself Spirit
uailsm. while Ia reality it is rank
materi slisn. We are told that spirits
with visible and material hands seize
material bodies and move them by
sheer fofce. They lay hold of, the
hands aud limbs of the living with d
warm corporeal touch. aud perform
! various material works by their own
material power.
Aud the Spirit1alist's heaven for
gross materalist;c conceptions is hardly
eqlalled by the sensuous heaven of
Mohammeianisn. Men are to be en-
ployed there as here. and live ip4similar
sbodes. There heaven is as solid with
matter as WinneEucca mountain is
with rock. Ii tais is not mlterialism
then we do not know what is. Let
them cease calling il SpirituaIism.
Lastly: Wesobjsct to Spirisaalism' on
account of its iuilusnce on its believers.
God has wisely drawn veil over the
unseen world. and permits bat few
rays OF its light to shine upon uss Let
there be any considerable departure
| from faith in these disclosures and how
soon MUD. body and character become
unsettled. The shock is too great for
man to bear. 1t prostrates and ruins
his constitution. This dangerous work
| Spiritualism does: 1t tears aside the
veil and lets loose upon the world the
| shades of the departed. Under these
bewildering thoughts the brain becomes
heated, the Imagination excited. the in
teilect staggers. aud body and soul be.
come a wreck. A wildness of look,
aud nervousness of manner character.
izs Spirltualist. 1t is too much for
him, an / he becomes intoxicated with
this great de!usion. in the wake of
which follows insanity, crime and
suicide. Aud wherever 1t lays.its faith
destroying hand there the power of re-
llgion dissolves. Let the phllosophic
Investigate the natural science involved;
but let US reject its religious system as
Witherlng. dangerous and fatsl, and let
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