The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-12-02
Do Spirits Exist?
BY Camille Tlammarion.

BY Camille Flammarion.
That souls survive the destruction |
OF the body I have not the slightest |
doubt but that they manifest them |
selves by the processes employed in
seances the experimental method has
not yet given US absolute proof. /
add. this hypothesis is not at all like
ly.
II the souls OF the dead are about
us. upon our planet, the invisible pop
ulation would increase at the rate Of
10000 a day, about 36,000,000 year.
$3.50, 100000 a century. 36,000,000,-
900 in ten centuries. etc.-unless we
admit reincarnation upon the earth
itself.
How many times do apparitions or
manifestations, occur? When illu-
sions, auto-suggestions. hallucinations
are Illuminated. what remains? Scare.
ly anything Such an exceptional
rarity as this pleads against the reality
OF apparitions.
We may suppose. it is true, that all
human beings do not survive their
death, and that, In general, their ply
sical entity is so insignificant, so wa
vering, so Intellectual, that it almost
disappears in the ether, in the COM
mon reservoir, In the environment,
like the souls Of animals. But think
ing beings who have the consciousness
Of their physical existence do not
close their personality, but continue
the cycle of their evolution.
1t would seem natural, therefore, to
see them manifest themselves under
certain circumstances.
Persons condemned to death in con-
sequence of judicial errors, and exc
cuted. should they not return to pro-
test their innocence?
Would It not be reasonable to sup.
pose that persons put to death ir
such a way that violence was not sus.
PCCtcO WOQlQ ICluIh " dCCQSC tIlC dS'
sassins?
Knowing the characters Of Robes
:. pierre, OF Saint-Just, Of Fouguier Tur
Vile, should like to have seen then
revenge themselves little on thos'
who triumphed over them. The vic
tins Of '93, should they not have re
turned to disturb the sleep OF tn
conQuerors?
Out Of the 10000 citizens shot b.
fusillades during the time Of tn
Commune Of Paris should like t
have seen a dozen increasingly har
RAISING M. Theirs. who was really to
puffed up and vainglorious over hi
having first permitted the organiza
ton and then punished it.
I'll Why do not children, whose deaf
come to console them? Why do ou
dearest attachments seem to disaI
pear forever? And how about la!
wills and testaments stolen away, an
the last will Of the dead ignore
and their intentions purposely misir
=. terpreted?
-. turn" says an old proverb. Tn
aperism Is not Of absolute applies
.. ton. perhaps, but apparitions are rar
, very rare, and we do not understar
their exact nature. Are they actual al
partitions Of the dead? 1t is not y
demonstrated.
-, Up to this day have sought in va
for certain proof OF personal idel
tity through mediumistic communic
tions. And then, one does not see WI
spirits, If they exist around us, shou
have need Of mediums at all in ord
to manifest themselves. They sure
must form a part of nature. Of Il
. universal nature which includes {
things.
1t may be, 1t Is true, that spiri
exist around us and it is normally ir
possible for them to make themselv
visible, audible or tangible, not
ing able to reflect rays Of light a
cessible to our retinas or to produ
-, sonorous waves or to effect touches.
ith
I do not say that spirits do not e
ist---On the contrary, / have reason
admitting their existence, but as
faithful servant OF the experiment
method l think We ought to exhau
,.. the simple, natural hypothesis alrea
known before having recourse to OF
m. ers.--New York American.
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