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{{Style S-Small capitals|Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen}}:—In human society two antagonistic forces are ceaselessly at work, the one employed in building up, the other in pulling down, The disintegrating power sweeps away institutions when they become effete and corrupt, and sometimes does so before that stage is reached; the constructive power erects good and bad institutions in the face of opposition, and sometimes preserves those which are injurious to the community at large. The extreme representatives of these two classes are not usually of the highest mental capacity; the one extreme section can only tear down without being able to erect anything with efficiency; the other stubbornly resists every attempt at improvement, and does so from a senseless antipathy to reasonable change. The march of civilisation and culture is along the line which divides these two opposing powers, and the great men who publicly represent each of the two great sections of thought are never extreme in their views, or they would be too far from the central line along which alone the movement of the general body politic is practicable. That such is the case will be brought home to the consciousness of those who make a study of the British Legislature and its constituent elements, and these same building up and pulling down forces are at work inside Spiritualism, as well as everywhere else. | {{Style S-Small capitals|Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen}}:—In human society two antagonistic forces are ceaselessly at work, the one employed in building up, the other in pulling down, The disintegrating power sweeps away institutions when they become effete and corrupt, and sometimes does so before that stage is reached; the constructive power erects good and bad institutions in the face of opposition, and sometimes preserves those which are injurious to the community at large. The extreme representatives of these two classes are not usually of the highest mental capacity; the one extreme section can only tear down without being able to erect anything with efficiency; the other stubbornly resists every attempt at improvement, and does so from a senseless antipathy to reasonable change. The march of civilisation and culture is along the line which divides these two opposing powers, and the great men who publicly represent each of the two great sections of thought are never extreme in their views, or they would be too far from the central line along which alone the movement of the general body politic is practicable. That such is the case will be brought home to the consciousness of those who make a study of the British Legislature and its constituent elements, and these same building up and pulling down forces are at work inside Spiritualism, as well as everywhere else. | ||
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london_spiritualist_n.287_1878-02-22.pdf|page=3|London Spiritualist, No. 287, February 22, 1878, pp. 85-7 | london_spiritualist_n.287_1878-02-22.pdf|page=3|London Spiritualist, No. 287, February 22, 1878, pp. 85-7 | ||
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