Spirit manifestations examined and explained : Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind / By John Bovee Dods.

  • Dods, John Bovee, 1795-1872.
Date:
[1854], [©1854]
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Credit: Spirit manifestations examined and explained : Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind / By John Bovee Dods. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    protracted to a thousand years twice told. Of what use, then, would it be to us to leave this globe and invade the territory of other worlds, when there is enough for us to study and admire at home? And let the world first come up to the standard copy of moral excellence and perfection, revealed and set before them by the Saviour, before they search for another. Let them first come up to his requirement, to be perfect, even as their Father who is in heaven is per- fect, in his present revealed character, before they seek for the revelation of a higher and more perfect character in God. I think it will puzzle them exceed- ingly to go beyond the Master. He has grasped, in his capacious thought, infinite space and unending du- ration, and filled them with the infinite attributes and perfections of an infinite God and Father! And how they can go beyond this is more than my feeble thought can reach, or intellect conceive. We have this globe thrown out before us as a speci- men of infinite power for us to study and investigate, and are, at the same time, permitted merely to perceive that there are other worlds in the dominions of the Creator, and as spectators we are permitted to gaze on their beauty, order, and harmony, and from analogy to reason that they are inhabited by moral intelligences and other beings similar to our own. And this is enough for us to know in our present state of existence, without paying them, in person, a formal visit. But