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| author = Coleman, Benjn.
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| source title = Spiritualist, The
| source title = London Spiritualist
| source details = London, February 8, 1878
| source details = No. 285, February 8, 1878, p. 69
| publication date = 1878-02-08
| publication date = 1878-02-08
| original date = 1878-02-02
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—''' '''I am glad to "see that my anticipations, expressed years ago, that we should be indebted to a new generation of thinking men and women for a fair and candid examination of the claims of Spiritualism, is now being realised in your columns, and it is not, I assure you, an empty compliment when I say that the journal which you conduct is in my opinion a credit to the movement which it advocates. I do not, however, take up my pen to enter the lists as a controversialist, for I find my thoughts are far better expressed by others, but I should like to say in passing that the theories of my friend Dr. Wyld, and his followers, do not disturb my settled convictions that the intelligences—good, bad, and indifferent—which come to us from the invisible world, proceed from departed human beings of like habits and character, and this is confirmed in my mind by the actions I have witnessed, and the nature of the messages I have invariably received. On this point, by the way, it would be interesting to know what proof the occultists give of any intelligence such as we have been accustomed to call spiritual, being derived from beings of another race, whom they assert are of a very low order in creation, but who, to play the part assigned to them, must be intimately acquainted with the ways and usages of modern society, and with the languages of all nations.
My immediate object in writing this letter, is to take exception to a passage in Mr. Charles Massey’s paper, “Space and Time.” He says, “I, for instance—I do not accept the story of Mrs. Guppy’s miscalled flight from Holloway to Lamb’s-Conduit-street; it is not because I see anything at all incredible in it, but because the evidence has failed in this particular instance to satisfy me of the fact as proven, though I think it very probably is true. No Spiritualist, of course, is absurd enough to suppose that there was an actual flight through space of Mrs. Guppy’s phenomenal body.”
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