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“Twice I went, with Mr. Leymarie, to Vincennes, near Paris, to organise circles, and although advised in advance each time, the number of Spiritualists who responded to the call was too small to be of any account; so the attempt had to be abandoned. Mrs. Babelin, in Paris, is the best trance and test medium that I have met in France. Hugo Dalezi, as a drawing medium, is very good, but no one remunerates him for his services. I saw him once give a gentleman two capital tests, the likenesses, fully recognised, of his daughter (dead) and of his wife (living)—for which the receiver did not even thank the giver. Miss Huet, 173, Rue Saint Honoré, still goes on receiving callers twice a week. This refined lady and gifted medium gets communications by raps altogether. Mme. Olympe Audouard, a well-known writer of travels, &c., often publishes short articles in her weekly paper Le Pappillon, concerning our cause, to which she is thoroughly devoted. She also delivers lectures on that subject and on Woman’s Rights.
“The regular weekly meetings of the Psychological Society, at No. 5, Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs, had not yet commenced when I left Paris. At that headquarters, where the offices of the Revue Spirite are situated also, are to be met, almost daily, foreigners interested in the cause. I happened one day to see there a New Jersey man, who came to inquire about Mr. Godin, of the celebrated Familistere at Guise. The great philanthropist is in our ranks, and publishes frequently in his weekly paper, devoted to social organisations, articles of interest on the question. I intend visiting the Familistere next year. Before leaving Paris for Nantes (Brittany) Mr. Leymarie had furnished me with a rather long list of names of places, where I was told to stop, and that kind friend had given me also the names of the leading Spiritualists in each designated locality. He had also written to many of them to introduce me, and so pave an easy way for me. Further still, he presented me, at parting, with a hundred-franc note, about twenty dollars, to enable me to pay a part of my fare, &c., on to Marseilles. That amount, he said, came from the fund of the Revue Spirite.”
The despotism of custom is on the wane; we are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.—John Stuart Mill.
A boy came home from school much excited, and told his father that he believed all human beings were descended from apes, which made the old man so mad that he replied, angrily, “That may be the case with you, but it ain’t with me, I can tell you that now.”
My Creed
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Editor's notes
Sources
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London Spiritualist, No. 484, December 2, 1881, p. 269