ABSTRACT
Speaking after the manner of the world, the author recognises in Spiritualism no voice equally authoritative with that of Alfred Russel Wallace. None, in his opinion, has brought to the investigation of Spiritualistic phenomena better disciplined faculties, a freer or less prejudiced spirit of inquiry, and, none has been truer to his lights. Modern science utterly fails to realise the nature of mind, or to account for its presence in the universe, except by the mere verbal and unthinkable dogma that it is the product of organisation. Spiritualism recognises in mind the cause of organisation, and, perhaps, even of matter itself, and it has added greatly to our knowledge of man’s nature by demonstrating the existence of individual minds indistinguishable from these of human beings, yet separate from any human body.
