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| source title = Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = April 19, 1878 | | source details = No. 295, April 19, 1878, p. 181 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|A Complaint}} is often made by Spiritualists that a free hearing cannot be obtained through the channel of the London daily press for the ideas, facts, and manifestations now in our midst; yet when some well-intentioned and conscientious Spiritualists recently made up a new theory from old opinions, and applied the resuscitation to modern psychological phenomena, a few readers of these pages objected to their brethren having a hearing in the columns of ''The Spiritualist. ''Surely the experience of all of us should by this time have taught us to freely examine all subjects and facts whatever which can be found in God’s universe, and to do so without a particle of bias or of prejudice; thus may we sometimes entertain angels unawares, and sometimes turn away intellectual defaulters without their being able to justly complain that they have not had a fair hearing. That dogged intolerance or obtuseness of which we complain in others, let us not exhibit ourselves. Our general conclusion about the lengthy controversy on Theosophy is this—That the advocates of the doctrines have advanced them upon a creedal and not upon a scientific basis. Instead of giving us first a dozen facts, and then a conclusion irresistibly flowing from the facts, they have given us a dozen conclusions based upon, say, a solitary fact, relevant to no one of the twelve points of doctrine. If the picture evolved abnormally beneath the hand of Madame Blavatsky was produced by her willpower, and not by ordinary mediumship, why does she let those who attest the fact puzzle themselves as to the nature of the drawing, instead of explaining the points on which her friends record their perplexity, and instead of laying bare the whole process from first to last in a plain way? | ||
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| title = Faith Versus Knowledge | | title = Faith Versus Knowledge* | ||
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| source title = Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = April 19, 1878 | | source details = No. 295, April 19, 1878, pp. 181-3 | ||
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{{Style S-Small capitals|I DO}} not propose, sir, this evening to read an exhaustive paper on any particular subject, but merely to give expression to a few thoughts hurriedly thrown together, with a view to elicit discussion, and which will occupy but a very short time. | |||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> A Paper read last Monday night before the British National Association of Spiritualists. | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.295_1878-04-19.pdf|page=3|London Spiritualist, No. 295, April 19, 1878, p. 181 | |||
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