The soul's deepest questions : an introduction to spiritual philosophy / by George P. Young.

  • George Paxton Young
Date:
1913
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    their social and political life, ended in the debaucheries of Epicureanism.’’ Sluggish and timid men and women who oppose or fear the spread of new ideas often quote Shakespeare, who puts in the mouth of one of his characters the statement: “The bourne, from which no traveller returns,’ forgetting that Shakespeare’s two most powerful tragedies, ‘‘ Macbeth” and “ Hamlet,’ centre round the post-mortem appearances of the assassinated. An appeal is often made to the silence of nature on the existence of a future world and life. But Spiritualists know this silence to be an imaginary fact, and deny the truth of such a claim. The evidence of modern Spiritualism is only a small modicum of the phenomena better investigated and attested than the psychic manifestations that pervade history, and which we can readily see from modern. knowledge of mediumship, are universal in time and place. Perhaps for generations to come our truest faith and duty will lie in the patient attempt to unravel and co- ordinate from tangled and confused phenomena some traces of the supernal world. SPIRITUALISM BECOMING CONVENTIONAL AND RESPECTABLE. The Spiritualists of experience can testify to the changing attitude of the mind of the general public to- wards their enquiry. Gradually the peculiar terminology of Spiritualism is becoming current in literature and ordinary intercourse. This is a natural and orderly development, similar to that shown in the spread of all new ideas: ‘“‘ The residual] phenomena of human experience have been neglected and their significance ignored. The blame must not be shifted upon nature, but upon the pride and stupidity of the respectable classes. They fought Copernican astronomy, Newtonian gravitation, Darwinism, the existence of meteors, and hypnotism. Then when they were proved they appropriated ther, and made it the mark of intelli- gence to believe them. ‘The more the respectable change the more they remain the same. They will pass through the same development in psychic research, and when survival after death is proved, in spite of social ostracism it will be the respectable thing to believe and to teach.
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