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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Wayland, 1879.
I think there is sufficient evidence of another state of existence, and of the possibility of communication.
But beyond this glimpse, I think it is all precarious and unreliable.
One had better spend his life in chasing shadows than in seeking for these manifestations.
But I agree with Victor Hugo, who says: To elude a phenomenon, to turn our backs upon it laughing, is to make bankruptcy of truth.
The phenomenon of the ancient tripod, and of the modern table-turning, has a claim to be observed, like all other phenomena.
Root out the worthless weeds of error, but harvest the facts.
When was chaff made a pretext for refusing the wheat?
Science pronounces it entirely illogical to suppose that we exist as individuals after our bodies are resolved into the elements.
But logic is a science extremely narrow in its limitations.
There may be phases of existence as much beyond its cognizance as birds are beyond the observation of fishes.
Since Emers
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)