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of President of the British Association of Natural Philosophers, of which he (the doctor) had long been an active, practical and humble member. He was himself a student n knowledge from day to day, as he had been for nearly half a century last past, at home and abroad, and he, therefore, felt but small compunction in asking the British people to suspend their judgment concerning spiritualism, rather than accept the gratuitous opinion of Prof. Tyndall, at Belfast, in respect of its teachings, facts, science, experiments, philosophy, demonstrations or phenomena, since, as he had previously assured them, such a worthless inquiry was not only a mere phantasy of a most unscientific imagination—but neither more nor less than “a bee in his bonnet”! Dr. Tyndall and his friend. Dr. Huxley, might visit the glaciers of Switzerland again and again, and he thanked them heartily for their joint opinions of their structure and motion, or the physical basis of human life; their investigations on the truths of natural history, the polarity of diamagnetic force, the beautiful researches, especially on the magnets, optic properties of crystals, and the relation of magnetism and diamagnetism to molecular arrange men, in general; the action of aqueous vapor upon radiant heat, that checks the flow of terrestrial warmth into infinite space, and thus renders this, our planet, the third in order from the chief star, at present inhabitable for men, animals and plants. But when he publishes a new edition of his work on “Sound,” let him remember that there is a mode of motion elsewhere—in materialized spirit, forms, &c.—of which he has now neither an adequate conception nor sound philosophical experience. Demonstrations of modern spiritualism were not discoverable by the mere operation of individual thought, but were dependent entirely on that force or faculty, which was everywhere existent as life immortal, in the universe of spirit, and though there never had been a true parallelogram, circle or triangle, in a world of polar molecules, which ends in the infinite azure of materialism, the truths now demonstrated by the science of spiritualism would retain their evidence and certainty forever and ever.—Liverpool Daily Post, Nov. 2.
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