The higher branch of science; or, Materialism refuted by facts, a paper. [With] AddendaW.H. Terry, 1884 - 40 pages |
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Page 25 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 15 - The record shows that the defendant was asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him.
Page 10 - It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do ; but, had you seen what I have witnessed, you would hold a different opinion.
Page 2 - Fay, that after a very stringent trial and strict scrutiny of their proceedings, the gentlemen present could arrive at no other conclusion than that there was no trace of trickery in any form, and certainly there were neither confederates nor machinery, and that all those who had witnessed the results would freely state in the society in which they moved, that so far as their investigations enabled them to form an opinion, the phenomena which had taken place...
Page 11 - ... our century in possession of the domain and of the banner of philosophy. Its merits will present themselves still more clearly, if we examine closely the results of its labours. The first and the most important result, in a point of view purely philosophical, is, that the Spiritualists of our days have given to their researches and to their ideas a character really scientific : they have introduced into the study of man and of the intellectual world, the method practised with so much success...
Page 10 - The perfect observer in any department of science will have his eyes, as it were, opened, that they may be struck at once by any occurrence which, according to received theories, ought not to happen, for these are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries.
Page 10 - We are so far from knowing all the agents of nature, and their various modes of action, that it would not be philosophical to deny any phenomena merely because in the actual state of our knowledge they are inexplicable.
Page 33 - Hope leads the child to plant the flower, The man to sow the seed ; Nor leaves fulfilment to her hour, But prompts again to deed. And ere upon the old man's dust The grass is seen to wave, We look through falling tears, — to trust Hope's sunshine on the grave.
Page 13 - The great discoveries they made were, as we know, violently opposed by all their scientific contemporaries, to whom they appeared absurd and incredible ; but we have equally striking examples much nearer to our own day. When Benjamin Franklin brought the subject of lightning-conductors before the Royal Society, he was laughed at as a dreamer, and his paper was not admitted to the Philosophical Transactions.
Page 7 - ... march, They should come to that river wide, They would set their feet on the shining arch, And would pass to the other side. And they said that the Gods and the Heroes . crossed That bridge from the world of light, To strengthen the Soul when its hope seemed lost, In the conflict for the right. O, beautiful faith of the grand old past! So simple, yet so sublime, A light from that rainbow bridge is cast Far down o'er the tide of time. We raise our eyes, and we see above, The souls in their homeward...