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i ^ H'S ^ htf&l bjte night lli ^ t ^ m ^ m '^ U o& ^ fertpbfi £ i ^ giiweifa ^ « M&Silfidi ja ^ hbofiihe yfa&hham besn iiearlyfa ^ ilrat k ^ iial ad * fe ti ^ ia ^^ fife ^ 9 f ^» ld ^ fter&rh ^ asowBlli as cruelt ^ iii ato © trrurnjbte ofitfoe $ _ i ^ i # ^ r ( &fcjign ^ 6 f Go ^ ttii ^^ mere of of
bi ^^ s ^ eg fifdaiBcthei ^ belief the re lation thi& lif& ^ &i ^ otfieiv pn } Qfjt& ® ll tnye&igatidns into the nature and properties of spirtedmd ^ attetfj jt f ? er % | t ; ppears a surapg probability that the souls of the departed tf | sry liavk ll ^ e pQ ^ vejr q £ vre ^ appearmg on * the earth . Researches iritp tm pskimc ^ kf © f U ? e s ^^ i dest roy this probability . Do ghosts appear as t » atte * v 6 rgfsiirit ? ]^ t i ^ jinatterf focagents are at work , from the moment of deatk ^ fto ^ ffebt irremediable cbaogds in the corporeal from . Look into tte graveP ^ at ^ J see wha , t ehemiqai arBnities have done with form and featur ^ ^ and the ^ bstabce
whiijh composed them . Bone without muscle , or a shapeless itt $ | Ss xJes ^ itiit of eitfier , is s&l that can be found . A material gbbit caaonlj ?^ "appisar ^ . 'byi means i of a miracle—by ; an express re-creation of the haidait forrn ^ wfe ic hi would thus be no longer called a ghost , but a man raised froitettl ^ icleadv Such a : possibility is not urged by ghost-seers , who rather testifyjto ' having seen , Ueard ^ or felt ,-a spirit . But in thus testifying , they shew that they knowr neither what ^ spirit is nor what it is not . Our only notions of spirit are : » efirative # We conceive that it is , what matter is not : ttet ^ it has bo
extension , ^ and therefore cannot seen ; no hardness , and therefore canBol b ^^ beafd ; no solidity , and therefore cannot be smelt , tasted ^ or ^ felt . There is no feaspn for believing that spirit cannot act upon matter ; biaft we way safply , declare that , it cannot , as spirit , act through any of the five ^ setl ^ es : and- the reason why so many believe that it may , is , that they miscofeceive the nature of spirit , supposing it to be etherealized matter . The
g hilosppVier is safe in his conclusion that as the material frame cannot be reoovatedj » ajid as the spiritual one is not recognizable by the senses ^ the doad ^ do not appe ar to the living ; but what avails his reasoning , however sowwJyiagaitnst the ^ stubborn experience of an objector who declares that he lias jseen forms invisible to others , so distinctly as to be unable to choose be ; tw ^ e » it he apparition and the reality ? The philosopher , when he has exhausted hi& \ arguments , internally pronounces his opponent a fool or a madman : 4 white the jbystaoders , who know him to be neither the one nor
Ui « lojtbef ^ adinit his testimonyj and the matter rests where it did before , jlfithis « ajU « oai |) bilQSopher should meet with a moral philosopher , the afcrgumejatrtipayfber ^ liewed on another ground . The one de clares 4 ! hat no lwim ^ n iimtittlomfi shal l make him believe th ^ t which science shews to b ^ i ^ possable ^ jlTihftfpther ^ gwes tha ^ t there are impossibilities in the mental as wdU / a » Atoe ^ hy $ | c 3 ) B ! # orld jrand that he cannot admit such a mor ^ i ' miracl « a ^ jtJi 6 ifebeh ^ 0 d afiawc h aiconcurrence ^ f testimony as has beeKi always held fwhi ^ h creeds
sufficient to settle any otbfep < Jqubjtful question * Both are unaware of'Sny i ^ i ^ dlfirif ^ ur ^ e A > y , the difficulties of both may be avoided ; and , agaimc * W »^ tterJl ^^ y'i ' . ^ - . ! l ^ : ., v .- }\ - ;>^ , , ; -i ; l : nnwi '^• fe tWi jjW ^ i ^^ i ^ ni » j < 5 ^ . tejle ^ i «^ muc hj ^ ncei received ii ) CoiuaWi > V ^^ iefipo « lif > g-euperjriQt « i * al appearances . The fatilts of this > iesti ^ i&Qhfi Jb «^ whei <«« 6 ilyo . ( p 0 i « tli ^ df out without impeaching iits ihonestyu i <^ hef viilM ^ a ^^ m ^ cM ^ tt ^ lyiWrott ^ l ^ jid ^ iceptiye af tBi ^ pjlqry a ^ nisiiiierfMfeta ^ t 1 o » i 9 Bin 8 tMl »^« f |« ft ^ n ^* : yf-- 'The fowf indlvyid u ^^ wtio ^ by skillbr ^ cbifelebt , ha ^ antvoitmtediftCieittiftc fa ^ ta t aow i ^ eat rtally kaown ^ 'turacdiih ^ r knbWtedgd
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7 ^ P . Qemtofiultyfpan d . Witefwrnft .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/20/
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