Mystic London; or, Phases of occult life in the Metropolis / by Charles Maurice Davies.

  • Davies, Charles Maurice, 1828-1910.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Mystic London; or, Phases of occult life in the Metropolis / by Charles Maurice Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    elaborated during my protracted study of the subject. “We do not believe, we know,” was, as I said, the proud boast a spiritualist once made to me. And if the facts—any of the facts—of Spiritualism stand as facts, there is no doubt that it would form the strongest possible counterpoise to the materialism of our age. It presses the method of materialism into its service, and meets the doubter on his own ground of demonstration—a low ground, perhaps, but a tremendously decisive one, the very one perhaps on which the Battle of Baith and Beason will have to be fought out. If—let us not forget that pregnant monosyllable— if the assumptions of Spiritualism be true, and that we can only ascertain by personal investigation, I believe the circumstance would be eflGcacious in bring- ing back much of the old meaning of the word Tnang which was something more than the slipshod Baith standing as its modern equivalent. It would make it really the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Even if the dangers of Spiritualism were much greater than they are—aye, as great as the diabolical people themselves make out—I should still think (in the cautious words of the Dialecticians) Spiritual- ism was worth looking into, if only on the bare chance, however remote, of lighting on some such Philosophy