The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-06
Rv DIR. T. CIaye Shaw. F.. r. c. p.

r;,,,. Lecturer on Psychological Med
-urRE ia considerable body OF
thinkers called Hylozoists, who
i maintain that there may be low
s..r, n consciousness in inanimate mat
ter.
THO fart IA that, Just as electricity ana
magnetism, the force OF gravity ana 80
nm appear to have their expohents chiehy
in inorganic matter, so does the ooui oi
CniJt especlally select man, animal me-
as its vicarious ally; but inasmucn as Liie,
Sori and Spirit are supposed to be OF the
asssrcs of II not indeed Identical with,
the creating God. It Is held to be profane
and useless pursuit TO pry into the ndtuIe
NJ these hidden mysteries, which are
only TO be dealt with by select Few nonl-
nated-as In the tabernacle Oh olo oo'
themselves.
Uowever the forces of electricity and
uyht arose they are just as wonderful as
any form OF splrit-life and as they all are
hut different manifestations OF the same
thing. whatever it is, there can be no more
tndubitable right to examine the condf
tions OF any one OF these sources Oh mani
festation than there is Of the other.
Thus fortified, ] propose to take the
sniritnal idea as II is commonly held, even
n the difficulties appear TO be insurmount-
able, and to see what are It's obligations,
What II ought to be If the present ideas
Of II are in any way correct
We will begin with the obligations OF
the spectre or the ghost theory; III any
one says that he has seen ghost, he
means that ka has seen an image with
certain amount OF solidity OF shape and
color both in features and dress. either
moving about and speaking. or simply
eesticulating in various ways. and then
disappearing.
This means that spirit, which Ia a re
plca Of former object, can assume
solidity or can condense Itself 80 as TO be
capable OF exciting vision. and can then
re-vaporize and disappear.
II spirit can 90 this, II must be capable
of again becoming material, and II It Ia
able 10 move ana speak II must be living
material, however attenuated its form
may be-
Inasmuch as II appears at one time IN
one guise and at another In a different
one-but all as visitations relating 10 the
same recognized individuals--it follows
that there must be spiritual form cor
responding to every phase Of actual life,
and that the selection OF a particular
presentation must be a result OF deliberate
choice.
Now the change from one form into an.
other means that the spiritual condition
must TO some amount expend Itself in
not exist together in the same intensity
as when they were separate and disasso-
ciated, 60 that tho necessary assumption
is that when the ghosts OF an individual
appears the spirit OF the individual ia re-
placed b. H.
But II the spectre is clothed. how does
this happen?
Clothes, We know. are things Of short
Duration and in most Instances as In
eg.. the Hampton Court Ghost Lady, they
must have been torn up or have rotted
into dust and been scattered years ago,
Have the clothes then a spiritual life
0t would seem that the Hylozoists would
cay SOY, or does the spirit OF tho lady
possess the power OF gathering together
the scattered dust Of courtly confections
and reinhabiting them. or out of the mil.
lions OF phases OF actual life which we
have already limited as one Of the ueces-
sites OF the spiritual hypothesis WAS one
60 favorite habitation that Il Ia espe.
cially selected for actual rehabilitation,
though the materials for this have long
since been destroyed!
Take another Instance. that OF the re.
vivitcation OF a skeleton which Is sup
posed TO reappear with all the accompani
ments OF movement, and which Is stated
To be return OF the spirit OF the original
men.
II II could be proved that when the
spectral bones appeared the actual skc!e
fon was not 10 be found where IL was