Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam.

  • Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    By saying as he does that he differed less from me than the public generally supposed, he at least hints that he apprehended that something more firm than Felton's bubble was to be encountered, yet he did not view it as an adamantine wall, for he says they made assaults believing they could demolish the structure, but soon found they were powerless in the matter. The world's need of Spiritualism can hardly be stated more strongly than it is when one such as he says : The unexplainable phenomena exhibited by the mediums ivere my only evidence or hope of a conscious individuality beyond the tomb A great if not the chief difficulty in getting the source of the phenomena of Spiritualism correctly determined is the non-per- sistence of leaders in science when they encounter phenomena not explainable by what they already know. Even the great Agassiz says distinctly that he turned his back upon and gave a wide berth to phenomena because they baffled his skill to explain their source and quality. Such procedure manifests good reason why now, as in a former age, supernal prescience and wisdom revealed new truths to babes first rather than to the wise and prudent. In connection with anything seen but yet not ap- pearing within the explored realm of outward nature, the greater and more renowned the scientist the less is he willing to concede the existence of a reputed marvelous fact, or, if conceding that much, is less willing to put its reality and its claims as to the source of issuance to rigid, logical test. The tether- ings of position and reputation hold the learned back