DO THE DEAD LIVE.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1923, Page 4

DO THE DEAD LIVE.

ECTOPLASM A "COLD YISC Ul’S MASS.” LONDON. March 5. M. Raid ilelizo wrote .: series of articles on lin* subject of spirili.-m in a French newspaper, < (insisting' ; f interviews with well-known people of every shr.de of opinion joined together by

a running commentary, and tke.se have been ci Heeled together and tianshued from the Flench undci fee title, ‘‘Do Die Dead Live:” It may lie confessed at once that no clear answer emerges from the inquiry and that the final judgment of the auihor is one ol doubt. “On the cue ride,” as he says, "the spiritists; on the oilier, the scientists; between them a gulf.”

' cl. he is open lo conviction. “There are coming ta light, perhaps now, in the laboratories ext'.finely interesting taels, the t . bf-ervation and study of which will loud in new orientation of science and eventually to .sensational developments. Rut we must wail and allow the savanfs to

work in peace without dinning into iheir cars preconceived theories.” 41. Delanue, porlmps the best-known French spiritist, told M. Hctize, “I have seen my mother, who, ns f told you. was an excellent medium, give ail answer in Russian to a Russian, in the exact handwriting of the mother of this foreigner long since dead; and write for an Italian a. message in the patois of the suburbs-of Turin, controlled ns slip was then by the spirit ol the sister of the interlocutor." How are we to account for such incidents?

Ectoplasm, the mysterious emanation Irom the body that spiritists claim to have photographed, is described ns being to the touch "a cold and viscous mass comparable to contact with a reptile. As to its appearances, CTawiorcl was, ho said, gradually able to perceive a number of filaments, clear in colour, massed together ns though to form a paste.”