THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.
To the Editor'. ,/ A ' .. andsimplp-doscription off ft? ‘‘Transit which appeared in the afeiy eYenfipgs agq, wag, | t “ a . ve no doubt, read, understood, and appreciated by hundreds; perhaps thousands of persons m this Province. I look upon the coming transit ! as :■ a:: great and marvellous truth. and reflection upon the fact fills me : with nndeacribable feeling bf reverence and devotion, 1 and I can joyfully acknowledge as 1 my intellectual superior the man who can demopstrate suoh truths, to me..:, You will scarcely believe, however, that there are some people in Dunedin who discourage the such truths, and they look with > suspicidrrmpon any person-whodarea to express hir beliefin scientific facts, and generally call him a spiritualist; “Yonrspiribnaliats arc* always - bothering yourselves 2 r about some extravagant nonsense. ” I have re- ... peatedly been told this of late, whes only speaking of thf) transit of- Yehns to some young person,"and I. have had occasion to notice lately that, that the name spiritualist is applied to any person who daresto express hU» belief in the truth of modem science. WUI you kindly tell me what belief constitutes a spiritualist ?—I am-yours, &c,; ; ■ '■ ■. - - XXX. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 3457, 21 March 1874, Page 3
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194THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. Evening Star, Issue 3457, 21 March 1874, Page 3
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