The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of 'Spiritualism' is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a 'medium' hired at a guinea a seance.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
It dismisses any genuine comfort some may find in spiritualism.
'How extremely stupid [of me] not to have thought of that' said in particular of the idea of natural selection.
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.
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