Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-17
NRS.HUNTLEY'SBO
Another Interesting and Engrossing
Volume from the Pen Of Mrs.
Florence Huntley.
Touches Upon a Topic of Universal
Importance and Treats it in a
New Way.
"A Work Which Cannot Fail to Attract
and Interest Thoughtful Read
ers Everywhere.
FLORENCE HuNTLEY,s BOOK.

efs everywhere.
FLORENCE HUNTLEY'S BOOK.
Mrs. Florence Huntley, widow Of
Stanley Huntley, formerly with the
Tribune in early days and n Of the
genii Of the century in sketch writing,
has written another book-Harmonics
Of Evolution. The book is the result
of years Of careful labor and study
and is but the first Of a series. The
subject Imatter Is of universal interest
the division of the physical from the
psychical-material and immaterial-
the body and the spirit. But Mrs.
Huntley argues the matter purely from
a scientific standpoint, and hence the
fascination Of the work, clothed as it
is in new ideas-new probabilities, and
opening a vast field of speculation
along lines entirely new.
Mrs. HuntleyS argues that there is a
scientific explanation for what is
usually explained supernaturally.
That there is another world encircling
and girdling this, to which spirits are
transported, not as airy consciousness
alone-but as beings-spiritual beings
it is true, and beings whose organisms
are SO fine, keyed to different molds
and pitches from our coarser earthly
beings that they are invisible and in
tangible to us here, but are beings new
ertheless. occupying a universe which
is visible and tangible and material
to them as $the things of this world
are to us-but which are above and be-
yond the average earthly state. as
some cOlOrs are invisible to the eye,
or as some forces are not appreciated
by earthly sensitiveness. Hut as n
measure filled with substances Of vary
ing degrees of size, may be gradually
added to when apparently full, by
placing therein other substances of
such proportions as will fill in the inter
stices, and as finally water may he
poured ver the whole, and finer
liquids then be added. so may the phys
ical organism be permeated with an
other life, finer. and yet withal II dis.
tinct organism.
The book occupies a peculiar place
in the line of literature Of its class.
1t is well worth perusal. \ review
of it by Rev. Richmond Fisk summar-
ICES the nature of tile work more COM
p~rehensively and intelligen;ly than lies
in the power of the layman. nr.
Fisk says:
What does the author seek to do?
To scientifically prove that there is
no death and that life here and here
after has a common development and
purpose.
She uses the terms Natural Science
5as larger than physical science, and
claims to use the scientific method in
her philosophy of things.
She has spent ten years Of inquiry.
instruction, experiment and experience
inspgeparation, and thinks this consti-
tutes a substantial basis for her book.
This rather staggers one who recalls
how not ten but thirty, forty and fifty
years have been spent by some of our
great scientists and philosophers in
getting: ready to publish their conclu-
Ssions..
but perhaps she found so much had
already been established that the road
was q shorteone to the goal of COM
.plete spiritual triumph.
The sources of her preparation for
her work may be reduced to four:
l.. Direct evidence, o r the unquali-
fled statements of those who claim to
know.
{. The direct evidences which flow
from a cOurse of personal self-develop-
.ment.
8. The corroborative evidences
conveyed to the mind of the student
by the spiritual powers Of n teacher.
4 Modern science.
With this statement of sources Of
knowledge, she says the foremost
claim made for her philosophy is it's
conservation of natural law.
A brief reading brings us to the dis
covery that Our author is an Oriental
with modern science. additions. Her
work, she says, is the attempt to
bridge the gulf between ancient ORR
entail mysticism and modern western
science. She'claims that we now have
certain Modern Masters Of the Law
who unite the knowledge Of the ancient
spiritual schools with the knowledge
and methods of the modern physical
schools.
One Of these masters hasbeen her
teacher.
Thus prepared with these high aims,
it is interesting and instructive and
often Illuminating to follow our author
in her elaborate exposition. The nat
Sural law on which is built her philoso-
ply Of a self-government for the proof
of all spiritual life here and after
death is that of Vibration. The law
of vibration or polarity has to do with
the rate of vibratory action. Thus
our modern science says. All matter
is divisiblerevery particle of matter
is in q state of motion or vibration
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