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which she presents to us; if the course of circumstances is fortuitous; if we are, really, alone in the world; if nothing is believable — and therefore possible — but what is demonstrable; if human reason is everything, and common sense the true guide and the only guide; why, then, —if all that the world tells us be really true, —the sooner we close the account with this outside phantom-world the better! In this case away wrru 17! And away with ail the spiritual tales which are told us! The quicker that we realize to ourselves the fact that all of the supernatural — though, possibly, amusing —is all of the untrue, the more conformable it will be to the comfortable exercising of ourselves. We are children otherwise. Why should we frighten ourselves with fairy tales? Why bring over us this damp of the phantasmagoric view of life? We must, surely, be as the rude and ignorant— as the very unlettered —in distressing ourselves concerning this supposed outside watch of which fabulists have found it their interest to tell us. Surely, in this nineteenth century, when exploration has sifted the world, and science has exposed, however admirable, all the watchwork of it; when superstitions have been, even from their last lurking-places, expelled, and when teaching has almost—we are compelled to use the significant word, almost — settled things, we can dismiss our belief in this old world-mistaken idea of the reappearance of the dead; of anything which has ceased out of the world. We can get rid of the fear of the preternatural. In one word, supernaturalism is untrue, because nature is true. And because it has nothing of the supernatural in it. All the groping in the world cannot discover a thing that is not (NE 5 oo
“ Science-men are kings in their own domain, which is the world of sense. But they are very untrustworthy guides out of it. They can domesticate us very satisfactorily in this world, and can, piece by piece, put the machinery of it into our hand. But they can never give us another. Nor will their glance ever arrest one invisible visitant from out another world; nor will their sight ever penetrate, for a moment, past that shadowy curtain — which is yet, perhaps, penetrable — which divides the Seen from the Unseen. Let us give Science due honor; but let us not render up to it our hopes of the future, as equally as all of us of the present.” . . .
“True magic lies in the most secret and inmost powers of the mind. Our spiritual nature is still, as it were, barred within us. All spiritual wonders, in the end, become but wonders of our own minds.
“In magnetism lies the key to unlock the future science of magic, to fertilize the growing germs in cultivated fields of knowledge, and reveal the wonders of the creative mind.
“Magic is a great, secret, sudden, and disbelieved-in wisdom (out of this world, and its opposite). Reason is a great, public, relied-on mistake (in this world, and the same with it, in its, by man, accepted operations). The one treads down, and destroys the world. The other springs
which she presents to us; if the course of circumstances is fortuitous; if we are, really, alone in the world; if nothing is believable — and therefore possible — but what is demonstrable; if human reason is everything, and common sense the true guide and the only guide; why, then, —if all that the world tells us be really true, —the sooner we close the account with this outside phantom-world the better! In this case away wrru 17! And away with ail the spiritual tales which are told us! The quicker that we realize to ourselves the fact that all of the supernatural — though, possibly, amusing —is all of the untrue, the more conformable it will be to the comfortable exercising of ourselves. We are children otherwise. Why should we frighten ourselves with fairy tales? Why bring over us this damp of the phantasmagoric view of life? We must, surely, be as the rude and ignorant— as the very unlettered —in distressing ourselves concerning this supposed outside watch of which fabulists have found it their interest to tell us. Surely, in this nineteenth century, when exploration has sifted the world, and science has exposed, however admirable, all the watchwork of it; when superstitions have been, even from their last lurking-places, expelled, and when teaching has almost—we are compelled to use the significant word, almost — settled things, we can dismiss our belief in this old world-mistaken idea of the reappearance of the dead; of anything which has ceased out of the world. We can get rid of the fear of the preternatural. In one word, supernaturalism is untrue, because nature is true. And because it has nothing of the supernatural in it. All the groping in the world cannot discover a thing that is not (NE 5 oo
“ Science-men are kings in their own domain, which is the world of sense. But they are very untrustworthy guides out of it. They can domesticate us very satisfactorily in this world, and can, piece by piece, put the machinery of it into our hand. But they can never give us another. Nor will their glance ever arrest one invisible visitant from out another world; nor will their sight ever penetrate, for a moment, past that shadowy curtain — which is yet, perhaps, penetrable — which divides the Seen from the Unseen. Let us give Science due honor; but let us not render up to it our hopes of the future, as equally as all of us of the present.” . . .
“True magic lies in the most secret and inmost powers of the mind. Our spiritual nature is still, as it were, barred within us. All spiritual wonders, in the end, become but wonders of our own minds.
“In magnetism lies the key to unlock the future science of magic, to fertilize the growing germs in cultivated fields of knowledge, and reveal the wonders of the creative mind.
“Magic is a great, secret, sudden, and disbelieved-in wisdom (out of this world, and its opposite). Reason is a great, public, relied-on mistake (in this world, and the same with it, in its, by man, accepted operations). The one treads down, and destroys the world. The other springs
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