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Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 25: A Monthly Review; January-June 1889
It is one of the peculiarities of a really sound ar susceptible of the fullest development; and that it to conclusions unexpected by those who employ it. Is impossible to refuse to follow Dr. Newman whe reasoning from the miracles of the patristic and med ward in time as far as miracles are recorded. Bu logic are valid, I feel compelled to extend the argutimes learned and acute persons, even philosophers of sion, testify to the levitation of bodies much heavier me; to the existence of 'spirits' who, to the mere ave been iiidistinguishable from ?esh and blood, and, vs wrestled with all the vigour of Jacob's opponent; the speech, in the language of raps, of spiritual discourses, in point of coherence and value, are far of Balaam's humble but sagacious steed. I have t doubt that, if these were persecuting times, there is spiritualist who would cheerfully go to the stake is pneumatological faith, and furnish evidence, after art, in proof of the truth of his doctrines. Not a few doubtless struck by the impossibility of refusing the ence, if the ecclesiastical evidence is accepted, and it pmori objection by their implicit belief in Christian ow themselves ready to take poor Sludge seriously, hat he is possessed by other devils than those of need.
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