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  | source title = London Spiritualist
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  | source details = No. 288, March 1, 1878, pp. 99-101
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{{Style P-Quote|“The individual who first perceives a new fact, puts himself in advance of, and more or less in antagonism with, others. If his perception be true, but not accepted, it is not his fault that “he be right and everybody else wrong.” Such a state of things has happened more than once in the history of science, but it. is happily transitory; the many moving one-ward, the one onward.”—Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates, vol. iii., p. 165.}}


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{{Style S-Small capitals|Of}} late there has been much examination and discussion amongst us of new theories and possible new explanations in regard to what we have known as spiritual manifestations, and some of us have shown no little alarm, lest in so examining and discussing, we should lose our hold on views hitherto most generally received, and which are more or less dear to the hearts of us all. For myself, I consider it of such supreme importance that we should arrive at right conclusions in these matters, that I shall not allow myself to be driven back or frightened away from due examination of every theory, new and old, which may or can be presented to us, in explanation of the strange things occurring in our midst, and for a true and faithful account of which the world will hold us Spiritualists to a certain extent responsible. I in- tend, therefore, to go on exercising full freedom of inquiry, looking carefully all round both facts and theories, turning them over, and handling them familiarly, until I get right into {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |4-231}}




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london_spiritualist_n.288_1878-03-01.pdf|page=5|London Spiritualist, No. 288, March 1, 1878, pp. 99-101
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