64 INTRODUCTION are false, in the full belief that they are true. For my own part, I prefer to go for a short walk with Reason, rather than for a long tour with Imagination. It is far better to stop on the road and spend an hour or two in carefully examining the sign-posts and mile-stones, than to run as hard as ever you can along a road which you defzeve to be the right one. Ifa person likes to delude himself, and to accept all that he deéeves as the Trutn, he has a perfect right to do so; but, when he begins to dogmatize with unproven statements, he is injuring other people, and has xo right to do that. “Prove a étt/e, and we may believe more; but prove xothing and yet assert much, and we shall doubt all that you do say”; is, in my opinion, a good rule for those who “con- sult the oracle!” I do not assert that a Seer or a medium should always be expected to demonstrate his ‘Truths, as to do so is to tie the soul to the Earth-plane, and also because some Truths will not go into words, let alone into demon- strated phenomena (psychic or mental), without appearing to be watruths.