Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-16

#- .,.s regarding messages from that
IL land beyond the grave were dis
- last night before the University Ex-
a I2s.on Society by Professor James IA.
E t,s,op. foremost believer in splritlsm IN
\ ,.,. county, and Professor James II. Leuba,
+ -. = prvn Mawr College, believer in the
q e u,h,la t,on Of personal entity after death.
. ,sn's..sor Hyslop was very facle and by
.. ..~s arriving home of points and volubility
s,.wer succeeded in apparently putting
& F,.tor Leuba on the defensive.
z professor Hyslop cited a few of the more
/. -.a,. of the declared cases of spirit mes
|'r..s He told of the case of young man
B I~+o until late in his twentes was a silver
X, <snh Then he felt the call to paint pic
iSrss and beheld. according to Professor
|<Iivslop, many enchanting hallucinations
x kom which he painted. He sold his pic
|turss He could not even explain himself
||Sov he came TO do the work. Professor
4 uv,,on decided to make an experiment. He
told the young man to give him his pic
S,ss and he locked them in a safe. Then
\, cast about to find the artist who had IN
nlred the young fellow. II was not long
kfore he found the artists name. The
ran had been dead some time, bat when
M Young painter was taken to some of
ne scenes the other had painted. before his
6cath he recognized them.
Professor Hyslop also gave many other
Interesting cases to support his belief. He
hld Of the famous William James pink
& pajama case.
LEUBA'S ANSWER
When Professor Leuba rose for his talk
Ne denied strenuously that he was a mate
i rilIst. He said people would be surprised
y know how many of the countrys fore
4 most thinkers did not believe in the here
shG" Then he launched into an attack
h u the physical manifestations of spirit
nssages. He told of instances where the
imposed mediums had been proved to be
1bsolute fakes.
II was here that Doctor Leuba made his
fongest point
HOW ABOUT CLIMATE?
Doctor Hyslop,"' he said, has told us
e n the trivial little things which the spirit
q nsssage contains. We are all anxious to
NOW something Of the hereafter. why
\ (m't those gone on before tell us some
&ing about the climatic conditions they are
4 Hylng under and so forth? They must be
Rfering agony when they can't answer
HitAl questions. Altogether thing spiritism
hcws the next world as very gloomy
oAce'
Il Doctor Hyslop came back at this by say.
ne that much of the heavier philosophic
E STUFF had been handed across by the
Iprts, but that It could not be proved and
~ was kept in the background.
Ft We only want to get the identity of the
ender OF the message" said the professor
This Identity can be established more
ttsrly by the so-called trivial things. Ther
agaln, II is possible that n man In his mex
shte OF being has only memory of the pas
end no comprehension of his present state
E mh Is barely possible Again, il nigh
mppen that some of the message is los
the transmission by defective conductors
y my mind the very weaknesses of the sys
I'm OF spirit messages shows its authen
q Witty"
A the close of the debate many free
estlons at Professor Hyslop and his op
0nent. There was a lot of high talk float
- around and some absurdly simple ques
ns But everybody seemed to want t.
~ peck at the forensic gladiators.
here that many of the peculiar angle
MS ialth were set forth by Doctor Hyslop