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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 10: the religious side (search)
lf, my hope is always associated with dread, like the glowing of a star through mist. I feel, indeed, that Love is victorious, that there is no dark it cannot light, no depth it cannot reach; but I imagine that, between the Seen and the Unseen, there is a sort of neutral ground, a land of shadow and mystery, of strange voices and undistinguished forms. There are some, as Charles Lamb says, who stalk into futurity on stilts, without awe or self-distrust. Mrs. Fields's Whittier, p. 91. Judge Gate also writes me in regard to Whittier's supposed interest in spiritual manifestations, as follows:-- In regard to spiritualism. I think it can be truly said that Mr. Whittier was not a believer in spiritualism, but he acknowledged that there was something about it which he could not explain and did not understand. He frequently related the following incident. When in Boston, at the hotel one evening he met an old friend who was interested in spiritualism, and he asked Mr. Whittier