Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-28
HYSLOP ON GHOSTS

Very interesting was the lecture OF
Prof. Hyslop the other night on
Science and a Future Life" And
though his line of reasoning may not
at all times be followed clearly and
! logically, yet it must be said that his
conclusions, though beclouded with an
'ff," are correct.
If he said, clairvoyance and pre-
monition can be accepted as proved
facts, and "if' they require theory of
independence of mind. then they re-
quire a theory of survival" Probably.
1t is just as we'll to admit this, as it Is
neither easy to deny nor to affirm it.
But Prof. Hyslop's basis for argu-
fment is not necessarily the only or the
right one. 1t is yet to be demonstrated
that there is absolute clairvoyance, as
the term is generally understood. The
Society for Psychical Research studied
every authenticated case it was able to
trace down for years and yet in the
end, dealing along purely scientific and
materialistic lines, was obliged to admit
it's own defeat. 1t met phenomena
enough but was never able to follow
them out to a logical conclusion with
out suspicion of charlatanry some-
where. Neither has anyone else sue
ceeded any better Hence these media
as evidences of a future life are utterly
useless.
Science, however as generally under
stood, is not the channel through which
essentially spiritual problems must be
solved. Science deals with material
things-fesh and blood, mineral and
vegetable, gaseous and palpable. 1t
takes no ken of essentially ultra-mun-
dane substances.
IF man or any part of him survives
after death it must be his spirit; none
now believes that the mortal body
again revives. That passes away in
corruption and the grave. There is a
natural body and there is spiritual
body" says st. Paul, and he carefully
between them. The things
of the natural man are envident and
open to analysis: those of the spiritual
are impalpable and rest on faith. How,
then, can the same materialistic phil
osophy which treats of the mortal parts
be expected to answer in explaining the
Between this world and the world to
come is an impenetrable veil. Each is
a substantial realm, but one is material
and the other is spiritual. Man has not
yet begun to explain or explore the
regions of this world along natural
ines it confronts him with problems
that the keenest insight cannot solve.
Even birth is an unread riddle, only
less puzzling than life itself. How,
then, arguing only on this mortal plane,
,an man be expected to reason out and
diagram his higher sphere?
There is a philosophy of the future
ife-a clear, strong, logical and ire
futable philosophy. But it is not found
in the text books that science has
writ; neither are clairvoyance, pre-
monition or mediumistic catapaulting
aids to it, Men-the simplest of men
may read it understandingly, and its |
are not hidden even to |
oabes. 1t is conned with the eye of |
'aith; it is proved by life of good and |
lse; it carries conviction inwardly to
he very heart. Its text book is the
Bible.
Let Prof. Hyslop and his followers
lbandon their researches into the spir-
tual through mundane byways and
llong doubtful lines that lead nowhere.
Let them seek the future life through
he door open to whomsoever knocks,
and all "ifs" and lands" will fade
away as do clouds before summer sun.