What _are_ these intelligences, separated yet relating and communicating?
What is their state?
what their aspiration?
have we had part or shall we have part with them?
is this the corollary of man's life on the earth?
or are they unconscious echoes of his embodied soul?
That anyone should admit a fact (such as a man being lifted into the air, for instance), and not be interested in it, is so foreign to the habits of my mind (which can't insulate a fact from an inference, and rest there) that I have not a word to say.

Only I _see_ that if this class of facts, however grotesque, be recognised among thinkers, our reigning philosophy will modify itself; scientific men will conceive differently from Humboldt (for instance) of the mystery of life; the materialism which stifles the higher instincts of men will be dislodged, and the rationalism which divides Oxford with Romanism (_nothing between_, we hear!) will receive a blow.
_No truth can be dangerous._ What if Jesus Christ be taken for a medium, do you say?
Well, what then?
As perfect man, He possessed, I conclude, the full complement of a man's faculties.

But if He walked on the sea as a medium, if the virtue went out of Him as a mesmeriser, He also spoke the words which never man spoke, was born for us, and died for us, and rose from the dead as the Lord God our Saviour.

But the whole theory of spiritualism, all the phenomena, are strikingly _confirmatory_ of revelation; nothing strikes me more than that.

Hume's argument against miracles (a strong argument) disappears before it, and Strauss's conclusions from _a priori_ assertion of impossibility fall in pieces at once.
Now I have done with this subject.