When I come into contact with a soul, I don't want to try to detach it from the home in which a divine power has placed it for a time.
I glory in many limitations against which it is the prevailing fashion to fight uselessly.

The soul can do all its work where it is--in the body.

The influence you exercise over your friend Addison convinces me of the existence of spirits, things which will eventually be freed from the body, more certainly than any amount of material manifestations, sights, sounds, apparent physical sensations.

Why should we not be satisfied with remaining, for a time, as we are?
I consider that you and Addison were ill-advised in making this--no doubt absurd--experiment.
Supposing it to be absurd, the _raison d'tre_ of the sittings is gone at once.

Supposing it not to be--" "Yes.